Most Republicans want to see Trump play big role in GOP going forward: polls
By: Paul Steinhauser
We love ❤️ you Mr. President! We want you to be the leader of our party and to be the face of the opposition to Biden and democrat policy goals. We want you front and center defending us from them. When they see us and interact with us day to day be it personal or political we want them to see your image in each and every single one one of us. Trump 2024!
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Three out of four Republicans want to see former President Trump play a big role in the GOP going forward.
That’s the headline from a new Quinnipiac University national poll conducted Thursday through Sunday, during and after the acquittal of Trump in his Senate impeachment trial . Only a fifth of Republicans questioned in the survey said they don’t want the former president to continue to play a dominate role in the party he reshaped and ruled over during his stormy four years in the White House.
According to the poll, 87% of Republicans said that Trump should be allowed to hold elected office again. That stands in contrast to the 55% of all respondents in the survey who said the former president should be barred from holding elective office in the future.
"He may be down, but he is certainly not out of favor with the GOP. Twice impeached, vilified by Democrats in the trial, and virtually silenced by social media ... despite it all, Donald Trump keeps a solid foothold in the Republican Party," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy highlighted.
The Quinnipiac University poll questioned 1,056 adults, with a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The former president was acquitted of one count of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by right wing extremists and other Trump supporters aiming to disrupt congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Seven GOP senators joined all 50 Democrats in the Senate in voting to convict Trump on Saturday. While there was bipartisan support to convict the former president, the tally was 10 votes shy of the 67 needed to convict Trump.
A Politico/Morning Consult survey conducted on Sunday, the day after the trial, indicated that six out of 10 Republicans said they want Trump to play a major role in the GOP going forward, with eight out of 10 Republicans said they hold a favorable opinion of the former president.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The release of the polls come as the former president vows to remain dominant figure in the GOP and pledges to support primary challengers against Republicans who have crossed him who are up for reelection in 2022. And it comes as he’s also flirting with a presidential run in 2024 to try to return to the White House. The Politico/Morning Consult survey indicated that right now, Trump remains far ahead of the rest of the field of potential 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls.
After his acquittal in his impeachment trial on Saturday, Trump touted in a statement that "our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people."
The former president teased that "we have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future."
But there are some leaders in the GOP who seek a different future for the party.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , the most powerful Republican in the nation’s capital, on Monday once again took aim at Trump.
McConnell, who eviscerated the former president in a speech on the Senate floor on Saturday after voting to acquit Trump, did it again on Monday.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone. His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended," McConnell wrote in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.
In the piece, headlined "Acquittal Vindicated the Constitution, Not Trump," McConnell stressed that "the nation needs real constitutional champions, not fair-weather institutionalists."
And McConnell, for a second straight interview, teased that he may cross paths with Trump when it comes to GOP Senate primaries in next year’s midterm elections, when the Republicans aim to win back the majorities in both houses of Congress.
"My goal is, in every way possible, to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win in November," McConnell told Politico on Saturday. "Some of them may be people the former president likes. Some of them may not be. The only thing I care about is electability."
On Monday, the longtime GOP senator from Kentucky told the Wall Street Journal that the key to victory in 2022 is "getting candidates who can actually win in November. …That may or may not involve trying to affect the outcome of the primaries."
The comments from McConnell fuel speculation that Senate primary showdowns over the next year and a half could turn into a power struggle between the Trump and anti-Trump factions of the GOP.
The former president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. , emphasized on Fox News’ " Hannity " on Monday that his father "is going to keep pushing that America First agenda, fighting for the American worker. … He’s going to be pushing for candidates who will do that, not the random establishment guys."
Hours earlier, top Trump aide Dan Scavino tweeted a video of a large gathering of supporters of the former president cheering Trump on as he passed by in limousine as he returned to his residence in Mar-a-Lago in South Florida after a golf outing.
A veteran political analyst sees a delicate dance to come for Republicans.
"The challenge the GOP has is to move away from Trump without alienating his supporters," Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said Monday on "Special Report."
"I think most Republican politicians, at least many of them, have concluded that they cannot win a national election with Trump," Hume argued. "He lost the last one and then he damaged his reputation terribly with his conduct after the election. So he’s damaged but he retains a significant following within the party. What they’re trying to do, I think, is try to hang on to his voters without hanging on to him. That isn’t easy to do."
And longtime conservative commentator George Will penned an opinion piece in the Washington Post titled "Now begins McConnell’s project to shrink Trump’s GOP influence."
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Trump lost the house, the senate, the WH, 450,000 dead, lost 4 million jobs and doubled the UE rate and spent close to 300 days in 4 years.....golfing, (that's the short lost). Apparently the majority of trump supporters see all of this as a good thing.
Lets not forget the coup attempt which cost 7 people their lives, while Donny jumped up and down with glee.
Clinton and Obama lost it all too and by much bigger margins in the house and the senate. Presidents do t have the power to stop fatalities or economic loss during a once in a century pandemic. 50,000 of those deaths are on Biden by the way. Jan 21-present. The Biden death watch goes on. And Biden killing tens of thousands of jobs with the stroke of a pen during the pandemic was asinine.
Where were they mentioned in the article?
I must have missed it.
How typical that the right wing suddenly forgets that trump literally did nothing to stop or even slow down covid. How quickly they forget...
He spent 4 months lying about it and denied that it even existed. Let's not forget, "it's will be gone by April", "it's just the flu", and the host of other lies he told just to protect his ego.
trump was never a true financial conservative either:
America National Dept.
Donald J. Trump 2017: $20,244,900,016,053.50
Present: $27,052,190,118,519.27
Increase: 33.62%
Yep.. He added more to the debt in 4 years than Obama did in 8. And Obama inherited an economy in a free fall.
No he was not. Someone else or possibly he will be forced to become one due to future debt issues.
Trump inherited a plague from China and took measures to limit its effects and get us a vaccine in record time. His policies staved off a 1930’s like depression event to his everlasting credit.
Can you point to a single dollar spent by Trump that Nancy "Owen" Pelosi"s House did not appropriate?
Trump inherited a growing economy and STILL managed to add just shy of 8 trillion dollars to the debt in 4 years...
You know, the debt? That thing the right wing cried about every fucking day for 8 years while President Obama was in office, but suddenly stopped caring about it the second trump was sworn in?
Can you point to a single dollar spent by Trump that Nancy "Owen" Pelosi"s House did not appropriate?
Would that be the very same debt that Democrats didn't seem to care about while Obama was President, but suddenly cared about when Trump took office?
Was it China that made him golf, lie and deny Covid too?
Trump inherited a booming economy from Obama and ignored a plague that happened to originate from China and took no measures to limit its effects and get us a vaccine in record time, with no practical plan for actual vaccination.
Fixed.
That’s why we elected Biden. Because some people never learn...
Sorry I disagree, I Think people were learning just how inept trump was as president. Many starting when trump ignorantly and arrogantly first publicly stated:
“ It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing. ”
Trump has stuck to the refrain no matter what has been happening with the pandemic. Since February, the President has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to disappear or is currently disappearing.
His proclamations have been wildly inaccurate. When Trump first started making the claim in February, it was about the time the US had just suffered its very first known Covid-19 death . More than 220,000 deaths later , Trump continues to falsely claim that the virus will somehow just go away — even as the US experiences yet another surge in cases and hospitalizations .
But Maga, You are correct some people never do learn, many remain ignorant about things till death.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mass-suicide-at-jonestown
Drug addict Don Jr. has been called to testify under oath about the 2016 campaign funds because they were used illegally.
Drug addict Hunter Biden will be testifying soon.
Where was he mentioned in the article? I must have missed it.
Ah so this is one of those completely unbiased polls.
You think that’s a biased poll?
We the people of the Republican Party want Trump to lead us and for McConnell and his Lincoln project butt buddies to go do unnatural acts with themselves.
The republican party is dead.
Oh, no!
Again??
The republican party is dead. From mainlining Trump Kool-aid.
They're not dead, but they've set themselves up for a huge battle between their hair-on-fire base, and the somewhat pragmatic leadership..... Bigger divide than ever. Should be interesting to watch. All while they continue to alienate the larger majority of Americans....!
It keeps happening over and over again!
Maybe the GOP Should be called the Zombie Party with all the times Democrats have declared it dead, only to see it rise again and again and again!
Do these fine folks not ever look at history?
Somehow Maga, I doubt you speak for the whole republican party.
From what I'm seeing many true conservatives especially many of the more financially conservative ones want little more to do with trump.
From what we've recently witnessed from him and considering now trump is like a wounded animal and even more dangerious than he was before I look for the more courageous republicans Not to be endorsing trump much at all anymore.
trump's loyal followers may never recognise what a ruler that declares himself president over the voters really is a true danger to their/our vote and to our democracy itself.
I'm sure many people in German didn't a dictatorship starting, but it did. Once the power was lost, I'll bet they missed it.
But Again, you are correct: trump's loyal followers may never recognise what a ruler that declares himself president over the voters really is a true danger to their/our vote and to our democracy itself and may want trump to lead them. forever.
Not forever. Just for four more years!
Someone should let trump know that. His last way of attempting to keep power doesn't seem to be limited to we the people deciding when we have a new leader.
Jesus that is so sad.
And like I said earlier:
some people never do learn, many remain ignorant about things till death.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mass-suicide-at-jonestown
What others do or believe is their problem.
If you mean Trump as president again? No thanks. Find somebody else, please.
People have been doing this with politics for a long time. Is it lazy? Lack of imagination? They keep trying to anoint somebody for president because of a past presidency. I know this would be the same person, but this is not a new thing.
I see it starting in recent times with George Bush being elected president largely on the strength of him being the VP of a very popular Ronald Reagan. Eight years later, his son was elected largely on the strength of just being related to the elder Bush. And then after George the Younger was president, we get Jeb running. What for?
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton goes from zero experience in public office to senator from New York to presidential candidate on the strength of what? Being married to the president? Lame! And now people want to talk about Michelle Obama for president and it's just as dumb.
Then we have Joe Biden as president. Nothing against Joe Biden - he does have a lot of experience - but the guy had previously been rejected by the electorate multiple times, and with good reasons. But he was Obama's VP, so we'll forget all that and the future will be a return to Obama-Camelot.
Don't count on it.
There are plenty of good people who would be better Republican presidents than Donald Trump. You just have to be willing to look and have an open mind.
I agree that we have plenty of very strong candidates. Trump may well by age 78 want to do that again. In the meantime he will be front and center in the party and helping the base to push the establishment to the fringes and complete the makeover of the GOP into a multi racial America First working and middle class nationalist populist party of conservatives and libertarians. Heck by 2028 we could have a Trump by marriage ready to run. I deep down hope that Trump and Nikki Haley can repair that relationship. Then we could have Haley, both senator Scott’s, Carson, De Santis, Noem, Rubio, Cruz, and others a strong field with not one establishment person in it.