Majority of Americans in new poll say it would be bad for the country if Trump ran in 2024 | TheHill
By: Mychael Schnell (TheHill)
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A majority of Americans in a new poll think it would be bad for the country if former President Trump runs for office in 2024.
The survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University, found that 60 percent of respondents said it would be bad for the country if Trump were to launch a bid for president in 2024.
Thirty-two percent of respondents, however, said another Trump campaign would be good for the country.
For months the former president has been teasing an announcement on whether he will throw his hat in the ring for a third attempt at the presidency.
Trump last month said he has made up his mind on whether he will run for the White House again in 2024. That decision, however, remains unknown.
Forty-nine percent of respondents polled said they think Trump will ultimately run for president in 2024, with 39 percent saying he will not. Twelve percent said they did not have an opinion.
When asked how likely they would be to vote for a candidate endorsed by Trump, 19 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to support the contender and 41 percent said they would be less likely. Thirty-seven percent of those polled said the former president's endorsement would not make a difference in their vote.
When examined by party, 54 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate backed by Trump, with only 6 percent saying they would be less likely. Thirty-four percent of Republicans said a Trump endorsement would not make a difference.
The statistics from Quinnipiac come as the former president has been extremely selective with his endorsements, which are often treated as a coveted prize within the GOP.
The effectiveness of the support, however, is still up for debate.
Trump's favored candidate in the Texas special runoff election last week, Susan Wright, lost to Jake Ellzey.
In a statement on Wednesday, the former president said Wright lost because Democrats voted for Ellzey.
"My endorsed candidate won in the Primary, but the other outstanding candidate won the General Election because virtually 100% of Democrats, approximately 17% of the total vote, supported the candidate I did not endorse," Trump said in a statement.
The former president, however, gained clout on Tuesday, when the candidate he endorsed, Mike Carey, won a special House election in Ohio in a crowded primary field of GOP contenders.
Trump's team in June was reportedly warning Republican candidates running for various offices not to fake endorsements from the former president before he makes an official statement, after a number of contenders were creating the appearance that they were backed by Trump.
The poll surveyed 1,290 U.S. adults nationwide between July 27 and Aug. 2. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
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Let us hope that Donald Trump will take note of the poll plus what democrats were able to pull off in 2020. The GOP needs him as statesman & inspiration, but the 2024 election should go to Governor Ron DeSantis. We know from what he has done in Florida, that he will advance the America First policy while facing a lot less resistance.
The pademic now belongs to democrats.
I agree Vic, because it will become clear before long that Trump wouldn't win another national election. DeSantis is laying low and reading the polls and the tea leaves for the time being. I suspect he will put out feelers early next year and begin to distance himself from Trump. I know I will not vote for Trump again. I think a DeSantis-Haley ticket would be a winner.
Right now, the Republicans need to concentrate on winning the House and Senate, and the way the Dems are messing up and losing voters, the chances are good that we can put a stop to the current left wing madness.
In the meantime, former Florida Governor & RINO Charlie Crist is about to challenge DeSantis in the next Governor's election.
Trump lives in a little bubble of yes men. I am sure there are already several assigned to keep this information away from him.
He has great political instincts
Every candidate he has supported has lost.
Not to mention the revolving door to jobs in his administration.
That's not true. I'm not sure on the scorecard, but he's had winners too.
Not to mention the revolving door to jobs in his administration.
That's ok. He was an outsider. It isn't easy to find the right people. DeSantis has the right kind of experience. Another plus for him. Thanks for raising that point.
Then look it up.
I know that will start as soon as he announces.
That's who they are!
LOL. He's the cause of the pandemic facing a lot less resistance in Florida - let's hear if for his doing the same for the whole nation.
TRUMP 2024 I'LL BE BACK
I agree. I don't want him to run in 2024, he should stick to his strengths. If he wants to remain in politics, he's one hell of a fund raiser.
The most likely outcome is that Donald Trump will destroy Ron DeSantis over the course of the next couple years , thus eliminating the presumed major obstacle to Trump becoming the GOP candidate in '24.
DeSantis, out of fear of the Trump cult, will not fight back in kind.
The Trump cult is the key to everything related to Trump or a Republican opposing Trump. As long as Trump is a free man, healthy enough, and wants it, he will be the Republican nominee in 2024. The only thing DeSantis can do is take the beating he is in for.
He does not need Trump to do that. DeSantis is destroying himself.
Biden will beat him by twenty million votes next time.
I doubt Biden will be up for 2024 and Harris is certain to be primaried.
Good luck!
Biden is in better physical shape than the younger Trump. If he wants to run, he will.
True, but even that is suspect. Trump lives on junk food and is always active. Biden, in case you haven't noticed has tiny work loads.
Always active??? Riding around in a golf cart? Or fingering the remote on his TV?
And where have you gotten that idea from?
Let's 1st look at your preferred POTUS schedule.
Biden's schedule Guess what, no "executive time".
This is Joe Biden riding a bike last Nov.
Have you EVER seen Trump riding a bicycle? Not even a stationary one.
The man only slept about 4 hours a day as President. He was literally everywhere. That picture there says it all. There is Trump passing an executive order to benefit/protect Americans and there is Scranton Joe with a stack of EO's to undue it all and open up the southern border.
No offense, but you've never shown the slightest familiarity with Trumps habits , corruptions, flaws, laziness, etc.
Prove to us that Trump ever exercises (riding in a golf cart is not exercise) and the hundred swings or so he takes a round are 10 minutes of body movement spread across four hours.
SO WHAT? He rode a bicycle for a campaign pic, then went to his basement and went to bed. He isn't any where close to keeping the schedule Trump kept.
Why bother arguing such a point, John. You would have voted for the dead body of James Madison in 2020 against Trump, correct?
False argument. We are not arguing who keeps their bodies in shape. We are arguing who had the most energy in the job of being president and Trump wins that by a mile. You voted for an idiot proxy for Bernie Sanders to get rid of Trump and now you want to say that Joe Biden can put in the time Trump did. Don't bother. People aren't stupid!
I should start keeping a record of everything you prove you dont know about Trump. it would be quite a list.
By far the most time Trump put in was watching himself on television. Second place goes to traveling to and from his rallies.
Then I'm way behind because I should keep a recxord of every smear and lie told about Donald Trump on here. You finally got rid of him John. Send a thank you note to China,
Even his political enemies gave him that. I think he was the most active President Iv'e seen in my lifetime and I go back to Eisenhower, who was very active as a General, but another who couldn't keep up with Trump. Do persist in your claim. People know better.
Oh please, I think I've forgotten more about Trump than you ever knew. You had no curiosity about all his misdeeds and corruption because you wanted to be able to "believe " in him.
Vic, are you aware that there are most likely hundreds of articles and even passages in books written about all Trump does is watch tv ?
I don't think you are quite the expert you think you are. If I was you I'd concern myself with what the left has done to this country under Biden, rather than pondering waistlines & tweets and allegations of corruption that have been investigated from a multitude of political enemies (all coming up empty).
I deal in facts not allegations
you are comical
I believe the word is CORRECT!
This is their dear leader...
He is a lying sack of shit and his followers act like he is a beacon of truth. Seems some people would rather be blind to truth.
In Oct of 2018 the New York Times PROVED that Trump and his family took part in tax fraud over a span of years during the 1990's . The article was over 50,000 words and took an hour to listen to with a text to speech app. Mary Trump gave the newspaper copys of detailed records of the Trump family business.
The problem was the statute of limitations had expired.
There has hardly ever been a day in Trump's life when he hasnt been corrupt.
It turns out that the msm was the lying sack of shit and the entire country knows it.
Here is "their" dear leader:
Please note: I can do it too!
Ripped people off with a fraudulent charity, ripped people off with a fraudulent 'college'...
Ripped people off by misleading them into recurring donations...
I gather some people cherish these kind of traits.
Has nothing to do with lies...
So it seems you can't.
You had a candidate in New York run and win the office of state DA by vowing to get Trump. Why didn't she prosecute? Why didn't all the others in position of power who hated him charge him? Maybe the lying Times didn't prove it?
The article was over 50,000 words and took an hour to listen to with a text to speech app. Mary Trump gave the newspaper copys of detailed records of the Trump family business.
Oh that settles it! It must be true/ s
The problem was the statute of limitations had expired.
Ohhhhhh, Just like the Whitewater case did for Hillary Clinton. Got it! Maybe we can change the law?
There has hardly ever been a day in Trump's life when he hasnt been corrupt.
And nobody has ever proved that. In the meantime he did great things for this country, most of which were wiped out by that big piece of smoldering shit now in the White House. Shame on the "80 million" whoever the fuck they are.
It's time for you to let it go. You got what you wanted. Trump is out and America is in trouble.
I gather some people hate other Americans.
If they let you do it, I'll do it. It's that simple.
Only in your mind.
. Biden is a frail old man who is mentally deteriorating before our eyes. Trump, no what you else you can say about him, still has vigor.
That makes zero sense.
I post about all the lies trump said and you think a vid of Biden somehow counteracts that?
Deal in truths for once.
Hate Americans? Can the stupid hyperbole.
Reminder to those in this thread: stop with the indirect personal comments. ONLY WARNING BEFORE TICKETS.
You dont know what you are talking about Vic. You never do when it comes to Trump. It should be embarrassing but I guess if you are MAGA you dont care about things like that.
It really is remarkable.
Prove it.
Most of his official scheduled time was watching TV in the resident wing. I provide a capture of an official schedule, and Trump didn't do anything until 11 am.
You mean his blank pages???
Well, the southern border is not open, so there is one lie down in flames.
Spending almost every waking hour eating, tweeting, watching TV, and golfing is hardly being everywhere.
sure they are
Oh come on Paula, Trump WAS 'everywhere'...golfing.
Over 400 times he went to Mar-a-Lago /Florida, his Bedminster, NJ golf course, his Palm Beach, FL golf course and his Potomac Falls, VA golf course.
plenty of brainless sheep left to be sheered in the next 3 years. send him all your money to save america, morons.
Speaking of morons, how many voted for Biden to act as Sanders?
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Nikki Haley.
Good afternoon Sir.
What does she bring?
Common sense, cool head, articulate, bold, intelligence, analytical mind, want more? LOL
She is a good woman with good intentions. You fight an evil ideology with the same type of conviction. We are going to need the likes of a Barry Goldwater and nothing less!
Nikki Haley has flipped flopped on Trump too much. I think her chances of being elected president are slim.
And Trump would never support her.
All politicians flip flop. I like her but not as much as Hogan.
And I don't think that Trump will support either.
I would love to run against Nikki Haley if I were a political opponent of hers. She is on record both saying that Trump is the best and worst person on earth (so to speak).
She has, but I don't think that makes a difference during a horse race.
A De Santis-Haley ticket would be ok but I’d rather have De Santis -Scott
2 years ago I would have agreed with you, but her pendulum act may have had a few too many swings. That said, she still checks off many boxes and that could freeze standard political mockery.
I agree, a Trump run in 2024 would be a bad idea. Trump would use a political campaign as a forum to litigate the past which would stunt the progress made in changing the Republican Party. And a rehash of the institutional biases that became apparent during Trump's Presidency is not what the country needs.
Trump pointed to the horizon and said 'we're going thataway'. Trump gave a direction toward the future which is what the country needed then. What the country needs now are clear, concise, robust priorities and policy goals that move the country in the direction Trump pointed to. Trump changed the course of the ship of state; what is needed now is someone to drive the ship in that direction.
Joe Biden attempting to steer the ship of state back onto its old course isn't turning out very well. The 'not Trump' thing has pointed the ship of state toward disaster on the horizon and that is becoming more apparent with each passing day. The advantage in the 2024 election goes to the candidate embracing a change course. Trump did the hard part of changing the course of the ship of state; Republicans only need to move in that direction.
Trump has to use the possibility of a Presidential campaign as a threat to keep the Republican Party moving in a new direction. Trump running in 2024 would split the Republican Party just as his 2016 run split the Republican Party. So, the possibility of a Presidential run is a potent threat. Trump has shifted the political imperative from 'the Republican Party must change' to become 'the Republican Party will change'. There's no longer any doubt, the Republican Party will change or Trump will split the party. And if the Republican Party backslides into its comfortable neo-liberal playbook then Trump running again becomes more certain. Mitt Romney take heed, your Republican Party isn't going to return.