July 12, 2022
DONALD WHO?:
Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll Finds: Far from consolidating his support, the former president appears weakened in his party, especially with younger and college-educated Republicans. (Michael C. Bender, July 12, 2022, NY Times)
Mr. Trump's troubles inside his party leave him hamstrung in a matchup against an unusually vulnerable incumbent.The Times/Siena poll suggested that the fears of many Republican elites about a Trump candidacy may be well-founded: He trailed President Biden, 44 percent to 41 percent, in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 contest, despite plummeting support for Mr. Biden, with voters nationwide giving him a perilously low 33 percent job-approval rating.A growing anyone-but-Trump vote inside the party contributed to Mr. Trump's deficit, with 16 percent of Republicans saying that if he were the nominee they would support Mr. Biden, would back a third-party candidate, wouldn't vote at all or remained unsure what they would do. That compared to 8 percent of Democrats who said they would similarly abandon Mr. Biden in a matchup with Mr. Trump.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 12, 2022 12:56 PM