According to a New York Times/Siena College p oll released on Tuesday, nearly half of all Republican primary voters want a candidate other than Donald Trump as president in twenty four years.
Nearly two-thirds of Republican voters under 35 as well as adults with at least a college degree said they would not vote for Trump in a presidential primary.
Roughly 16% of GOP voters said they would support Democratic President Joe Biden, a third party candidate or would abstain from voting altogether if Trump were the Republican nominee, in what would be a jump from 2020, when 9% of Republicans voted for a candidate other than Trump.
Three-fourths of GOP voters think that Trump was just exercising his right to contest the election, while 20% of Republicans think that Trump was threatening American democracy.
A quarter of Republican voters said they would vote for Ron DeSantis in the Florida governor's race if there was a primary match-up with Trump in four years.
For younger and college-educated Republicans who voted for Biden in the last election, he was the pick.
Musk said that Trump was too old to run in the future. The former president called the tech billionaire a "bullshit artist" after he endorsed Trump's opponents in the past.
It's possible that Trump will announce a run earlier than expected. According to reports, he told aides in July that he wanted to launch a bid by the end of the month in order to take advantage of Biden's falling poll numbers. According to CNN, that urge grew even stronger after Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows, testified to the January 6 committee about Trump's behavior on January 6, including that he lunged at a Secret Serviceagent who wouldn't take him to the
The poll shows that Trump may be losing support among Republicans. Several Congressional and gubernatorial candidates endorsed by Trump have lost to their non Trump-backed opponents at times. There have been six public hearings from the House panel tasked with investigating the January 6 riots, which have revealed dozens of shocking allegations, including that Trump wanted to march with followers to the Capitol as riots were underway and that he endorsed chants from rioters shouting "Hang Mike Pence!" This week, the hearing will look at Trump's ties to extremists.
A New York Times/ Siena College survey released on Monday showed that nearly two-thirds of Democrats don't want to see Biden run in 2024, with the top reasons being his age and his job performance. Tuesday's survey shows Biden still ahead of Trump by 3 points in a potential match-up, despite Biden's low approval rating.
Half of G.O.P. voters are ready to leave.
Musk thinks that Trump should hang up his hat and go sailing into the sunset.
A majority of Democrats don't want Biden to be their presidential candidate.
Trump's picks get clobbered in Georgia primaries, but he still claims success.