Posted on 08/22/2022 6:54:29 PM PDT by cotton1706
Republicans who support former President Trump more than they support the GOP climbed to 41 percent in August, up 7 points from May when 34 percent said they supported Trump more than the party, according to an NBC News poll released Sunday.
A slim majority of Republicans, or 50 percent, say they support the party more than they do Trump, the poll finds. But that’s down from 58 percent in May.
The former president continues to wield immense influence over the Republican Party. He has heavily influenced the defeat of eight out of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, either by pressuring them to resign or backing primary challengers.
The most high-profile loss came last week, when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), arguably his fiercest critic in the GOP, was defeated by more than 40 points from a Trump-endorsed challenger.
Trump saw Republicans rally behind him this month yet again after the FBI searched his home in connection to an investigation into whether he violated the Espionage Act, among other statutes, by taking classified documents home with him upon leaving the White House.
Republicans decried the unprecedented search of a former president’s home, calling it a politically motivated witch hunt.
Trump is also fending off a congressional investigation into the Capitol riot, which the panel of lawmakers has claimed was incited by the former president after he failed to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Most Americans, or 57 percent, say the investigations into Trump should continue, according to the NBC News poll.
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/whig-party-platform-1852
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1856
Can the Trump Republicans make the sea change to replace traditional Republicans and keep the party name, or does this country need a whole new party to MAGA?
NBC and Yahoo aren’t exactly truth tellers.
I cast my first vote in 1968 for Richard M. Nixon as a Republican, I have voted the same way since!
On January 21 2021 I went down to our local registrar and changed my affiliation to Independent.
F#CK THE REPUGLICRATS!
That depends on whether or not you believe Trump Democrats in the Northeast and Midwest are important or not.
So you don’t think there is “cheap labor” working in his hotels??? I’d bet good money there is.
Maybe some one from Florida can tell us if they have been by one his hotels/properties.
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