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Poll: Most Republicans Want Trump To Run Again, But Most Americans Don't

Poll: Most Republicans Want Trump To Run Again, But Most Americans Don't

A new poll suggests a majority of Republicans want former President Donald Trump to try for the White House again in 2024 — but the vast majority of Americans do not.

A national survey of adults released Thursday by Marquette Law School found that by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin, those who identify as Republicans would like Trump to run in the next presidential election. But overall, just 28 percent of those surveyed want to see another Trump campaign, versus 71 percent who do not.

The poll results show 73 percent of independents and 94 percent of Democrats oppose Trump running again.

While 73 percent of Republicans say they have a favorable view of the one-term president, just 32 percent do overall — and 65 percent of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of him.

This puts him well below President Joe Biden, whose rating in the poll is at 45 percent favorable, 49 perecent unfavorable, and six percent unable to give a rating. The survey puts Biden's overall job approval rating at 49 percent.

This survey comes as Trump is hinting he will mount another presidential campaign. On November 8, he told Fox News, "I am certainly thinking about it and we'll see. I think a lot of people will be very happy, frankly, with the decision, and probably will announce that after the midterms."

He boasted that "a lot of great people who are thinking about running are waiting for that decision, because they're not going to run if I run."

After winning in the Electoral College in 2016 despite getting three million fewer votes than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump badly lost both the popular and the electoral votes in 2020.

Biden won 306 of the 538 electors, a margin Trump himself deemed a "landslide" four years earlier when it went in his favor, and received over seven million votes more than the incumbent.

Days after plotting to overturn the election results and egging on supporters who then rioted at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Trump left office on January 20 with a historically low approval rating of 29 percent.

He has spent much of the time since then falsely claiming the election was stolen from him and threatening retribution against his political enemies — a strategy that does not appear to have improved his national popularity.

After Republican Virginia gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin narrowly won earlier this month, Trump claimed credit for the result. "I would like to thank my BASE for coming out in force and voting for Glenn Youngkin," he wrote. "Without you, he would not have been close to winning. The MAGA movement is bigger and stronger than ever before." Trump had endorsed Youngkin, but the two had not campaigned together.

Trump faces a number of legal issues between now and the next election. His company is under criminal indictment on tax fraud charges in New York; a select House committee is investigating the Capitol insurrection and his administration's possible involvement; and Congress is still working through the federal courts to obtain his tax returns.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

Trump Approval Is ‘Under Water’ In Key Suburban Districts

Trump Approval Is ‘Under Water’ In Key Suburban Districts

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

If the 2018 midterms are to be viewed as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency — which to a large degree, they were — Trumpism encountered enthusiastic support among rural voters but vehement disdain in urban areas: Republicans slightly increased their majority in the U.S. Senate but were walloped in the House of Representatives with a net loss of 40 seats. Many suburban districts leaned Democratic in 2018, and according to an August 12 report by NBC News, things aren’t improving for Trump in suburbia in 2019.

The urban/suburban distinction is an important one because in the past, blue cities had their share of red suburbs. Philadelphia, for example, is so Democratic that it hasn’t had a Republican major since the early 1950s; yet the suburbs of Montgomery County, Bucks County, and Delaware County, historically, have been much more GOP-friendly than Philly Proper. So when suburbanites — whether they’re living outside of Philly, Boston, Los Angeles or Chicago — are voting Democrat and agreeing with urban voters more than rural voters, it’s bad news for the GOP. And NBC News’ report (written by Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Carrie Dann) offers some data that Republican strategists won’t find comforting.

The article analyzes six NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls spanning January-July 2019. And in all but one of them, Trump’s approval is “underwater among suburban residents,” Todd, Murray, and Dann report.

In the July poll, Trump enjoys 47 percent approval among suburban voters compared to 62 percent among rural voters and only 33 percent among urban voters. Trump’s popularity among rural voters explains why he has been rallying his base so aggressively in recent weeks: he obviously realizes that a strong rural turnout will be essential for him in 2020.

Even red states can have some very blue cities — for example, Atlanta in Georgia or Houston, Austin and El Paso in Texas. But while Houston Proper has been a Democratic stronghold for a long time, its suburbs were much more GOP-friendly in the past. In the 1990s and 2000s, there was often a disparity between how Houston Proper voted and how Houston’s suburbs voted.
The article explains, “What do Arizona, Georgia, and Texas have in common? They have lots of suburban voters — either outside one major metropolitan area in the cases of Arizona and Georgia, or outside multiple major cities regarding Texas. The question Democratic primary voters need to ponder: which of their 20-some candidates is best able to win these suburbs?”

Poll: Trump Approval Plummets In Five Key Swing States

Poll: Trump Approval Plummets In Five Key Swing States

Trump’s approval rating has fallen double digits in five key states that he won since the election. The data shows that in addition to his overall poor approval Trump faces electoral college headwinds before the 2020 election.

In Morning Consult’s most recent survey, Trump is down in the following swing states: Florida (-24 points), Ohio (-20), Michigan (-19), Wisconsin (-18), and Pennsylvania (-17).

In 2016, Trump won all of those states, which together represent 93 electoral votes. Trump’s electoral vote margin of victory was 74 points that year.

By recent comparison, President Barack Obama defeated John McCain by 192 electoral votes in 2008 and Obama beat Mitt Romney by 126 electoral votes in 2012.

Trump also lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes.

Since being sworn in, Trump has never had the support of 50 percent or more of the American people when national polls are averaged.

Even in states where he is likely to win re-election, like Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Wyoming, Trump has seen steep double-digit declines in support.

The poor showing could very well be the result of a presidency swimming in corruption, incompetence and bigotry. Trump’s sole major legislative accomplishment was the tax scam, which rewarded the uber-wealthy and giant corporations and has been resoundingly panned by average Americans.

With the aid of congressional leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump has been able to pack federal courts and the Supreme Court with right-wing mediocrities of questionable moral character.

But Americans do not approve. In the first national election under Trump’s leadership, his party lost control of the House of Representatives by a national popular vote margin of over 9.7 million votes.

When Trump and his ideas are on the ballot, most voters vote against them. And now, in the states he will need the most to win a second term, he is under water.

Published with permission of The American Independent.