Growing Number Of GOP Voters Want Trump Out: Poll

Republican voters appear to be dumping Donald Trump as polling shows the twice-impeached ex-president’s being at the center of GOP politics motivated voters who turned out for Democrats in last month’s midterm elections, Andrew Feinberg reported for The Independent.

Photo Insert: The controversies in which Trump is involved may have “turned off many GOP voters, Independents, and split-ticket voters who could have otherwise backed GOP bets” last month.

A survey of 1,160 registered voters obtained by The Independent reveals that the attention still given to Trump and his self-styled “Make America Great Again” movement a full two years after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden helped drive voters to the polls with the intent of stopping his allies from winning offices at the state and federal level.

The poll, which was conducted by WPA Intelligence — a conservative firm favored by GOP mainstays such as Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee — found that a whopping 88 percent of Democratic voters said they cast their votes with an eye toward “stopping Maga extremists.”

Of that 88 percent, a full 74 percent responded that stopping the MAGA candidates was “very important” to how they voted. Democratic voters were also more energized by the FBI’s August 8 search of Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida home than the GOP voters who responded to the survey.

A full 35 percent of Democratic voters said the search was “very important” to them, while the number of Republicans who said the same about the search was just 22 percent.

Although 70 percent of GOP voters still have a favorable view of Trump, nearly a full third of voters who turned out for GOP candidates last month view him unfavorably now, including 33 percent of self-described “Reagan Republicans” or “Traditional Republicans” as well as 34 percent of Fox News viewers.

Half of “traditional” or “Reagan” GOP voters said it’s time for Trump to quit as GOP leader.

Among all GOP voters, that number is 40 percent, but it represents a big number of GOP voters and the most opposed to Trump since he won the presidency in 2016. A total of 64 percent of all voters — including 60 percent of those who voted for GOP last month — blame Trump for the bad GOP showing.

Amanda Lovino, a principal at the polling firm, said the controversies that Trump is involved in “turned off many GOP voters, Independents, and split-ticket voters who may have otherwise backed GOP bets” last month.

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