One in Three Republicans Now Think Donald Trump Was Wrong Candidate Choice

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-republican-candidate-poll-1907298

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  1. >this proportion is higher (47 percent) among Republican voters aged 18 to 34 years old.

  3. If true, that is huge. I still expect most of that third to vote for him, but the margins may be significant.

  4. It’s staggering that it took a felony conviction to make them aware of it.

  6. No, they don’t.

    They voted him to be their preferred candidate in 3 elections in a row regardless of what he says or does, much of which is far worse than this conviction. And everything that might make him look bad or incompetent can just conveniently be explained away by it was: “RIGGED” “FAKE” “BIASED” “POLITICAL” “DEEP STATE” “UNIPARTY” “SOROS” “OUT OF CONTEXT” “HE SAID PEACEFULLY” “LAPTOP” “EMAILS” etc.

    Because absolutely everything must have an equal but opposite viewpoint that is equally valuable, so if two people argue where one says earth is flat and another says its not flat, then those are equally valid positions since everything must be perfectly balanced for two sides, just like in conservation of energy equations. And imagine if it wasn’t perfectly balance, then it would be really awkward and difficult to justify a position while still claiming to be a decent, level headed person with strong principles and morals.

  7. Our Constitutional legal system has found that he’s a rapist, a fraud, the head of a criminal organization and a felon…

    …and 2/3rds of Republicans are literally in love with him.

  8. Léger has had some really wonky results in the past, I wouldn’t put much stock in this

  9. More like, 2/3 of Republicans still think Donald Trump was the RIGHT candidate choice.

  10. I mean, at the start of the primary season wasn’t he getting between 50% and 70% of the votes anyway, so is this *really* that surprising?

  11. It’s fun because I assumed there’d be another of those mass exodus moments where everybody declared he’d gone too far this time, but instead I think it’s gonna be a slow burn where people slowly realize what a fucked up thing they’ve gotten themselves into. Less satisfying but probably more helpful.

  13. Trump’s incorrectly wired mushy brain means that the American people shouldn’t vote to put him in charge of anything more crucial than the swimming towels at one of his (own) tacky venues.

  15. The leader of the “Law and Order” party is a convicted felon. WTF!!!

  16. He was indicted for 91 felonies before voting for the Republican primary began. He was found liable by a jury of his peers for sexual assault. He tried to kill democracy up to, and including January 6th. And not only did he lose in 2020, he helped the Republicans to lose in the 2022 midterms. I’m not even going to list all the other things he did. Republican primary voters had so many chances to choose somebody else, lol.

  17. This week, sure. A month of Fox News, Newsmax, and social media circles spinning it later? Not so much. They did this with January 6th too. Nothing is too far for them. They’re all in on this guy no matter what.

  18. And yet they’re still gonna pinch their noses at the diaper funk and vote for him at the ballot box.

  21. Alternative headline “2/3rd of Republicans remain dumbasses”

  23. They’ll fall in line when he is made the official nominee

  26. I’m taking all these polls with a grain of salt. Trump is absolutely going to lose some voters over this but we won’t know the real numbers until November 5th.

  27. That headline is easier to digest than saying only 33% of republicans think he was the wrong choice. He will still get all of their votes regardless.

  28. Guy facing criminal charges in four jurisdictions that should be going to trial within the next year might in fact get convicted in one of them? Inconceivable!

  29. As a Democrat, I would have loved a viable option offered by Republicans to vote for. I do not like Joe Biden. But I sure as hell am not voting for Trump.

  31. Trump *is* the perfect Republican. He embodies the willful ignorance, racism, and bigotry of their base, and he represents the type of entitled rich shits the party actually works for.

  33. He hasn’t been officially nominated by the party yet. Come on, Republicans, make me glad the RNC is coming to town by doing the right thing.

  34. Think how easy republicans could make things for themselves by finally and unequivocally denouncing trump and picking a relatively normal candidate like Haley.

    But then think how fucking stupid and craven a person has to be to support the orange shitstain in the first place.

    These people are shockingly selfish, stupid, and inhumane.

  35. The fact this might change people’s minds is still shocking to me. They didn’t realize he was a criminal before? This isn’t even his worst indictment. I assumed that the people who still supported him had lost touch with reality a long time ago and wouldn’t change their minds no matter what happened

  37. Someone every think about the fact that people with felony convictions aren’t allowed to enter most other countries. Seems a detractor for your international representative to not be allowed to travel to those countries.

  38. The fact that 2/3ds of them are OK with Donald is still absolutely amazing to me.

    He’s just such a loser. I don’t get it…

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