[ April 24, 2024 ]
We have no party. What choice do we have? Time for the GOP to go the way of the Whigs and give way to the next Lincoln.
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans say they would likely leave party if Trump starts new one: Poll
By: Zachary Halaschak | Washington Examiner | February 04, 2021 07:38 PM
A majority of Republican voters would likely join a new political party if former President Donald Trump starts one, a national survey of Republicans found.
Story continues below advertisementSixty-four percent of Republicans said they would be inclined toward joining a Trump-formed party like the “MAGA Party” or the “Patriot Party.” Among that figure, 32% said they would be very likely to join one. Thirty-six percent of respondents said they would be either somewhat or very unlikely to leave the GOP.
The survey was conducted among 340 registered Republicans between Jan. 28-29, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.3 points.
Fifteen percent of Democrats and 28% of independents would be inclined to join the theoretical Trump-centered party, the poll found.
“These numbers show that despite the Capitol riots Trump remains a political force to be reckoned with,” said Dritan Nesho, CEO and chief pollster at HarrisX. “He benefits from a diverse base of support making up over a third of voters, voters who are attracted to him on a number of issues that are yet to be properly addressed by, and coopted by, Democratic and Republican elites.”
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Of the voters surveyed, 37% said they would be likely to join a new political party started by the former president.
“If Trump were to split from the GOP and create his own party, polling suggests he might well create the second largest political party in the country, knocking the GOP down to third place,” Nesho said.
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50 Comments
3 years ago
LEAVE THE GOP TODAY! Become an independent.
I refuse to call myself “Republican” given that the GOP is today the party of TRAITOROUS RINOS.
Trump is NOT going to do a damned thing! Even after being screwed by the GOP he says he will NOT support a third party and wants a GOP candidate! That’s the little putz son-in-law globalist Jared Kushner speaking, not Donald, just as he did for four years!
This is where I break with Trump because after what they collectively did, led by Bitch McConnell, the GOP IS DEAD TO ME!
The GOP has screwed over too many Americans to win another election based on trust because the GOP stands for lies, deceit, treason and TREACHERY!
Don’t wait for Trump to do it because it ain’t gonna happen!
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3 years ago
Two thirds is not enough to make it viable as long as the Dems stay united.
3 years ago
Reply to
gfmucci .
No other party is viable now with the cheat. Might was well have representatives that mean it.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
I mean, let’s all move into the Libertarian Party — which is very like the original-principals Republicans anyway — and build it into a viable alternative to the Big Two. America has long needed a strong third party.
3 years ago
I’ll bet there are more than that too!!!!!! I’m afraid that it would just be the same morons in political positions under a new name. Kind of like how the RINO’s are now! As long as the people are loyal to real issues then I’d join.
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
Read this post by TED NOEL – his principles have merit.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/time_for_trump_to_start_the_great_american_party.html
3 years ago
Reply to
james randolph
I won’t vote for any gop in the future for sure. I hope that the new party will grow and show Trump that he can win with their support!
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
Faults, bad policy and personnel decisions stymied Trump. He gave it a good shot but was unable to find the basket. God Bless you, Donald, and most of your loved ones, but there will not be another time for a redo. Enjoy life — you’ve earned it!
3 years ago
many American voters already Identify as a different Party as it is.. that includes millions of liberals! people choose Democrat and Republican which is 2 cheeks of the same ass, because a Corrupted Government and MSM have made our Nation into a 2 Party Nation.. if Trump starts a 3rd Party using America first agenda, it will prove that Trump always had the Support of the people and that many previous elections were in fact frauded, including 2020 and 2021 by the Swamp
3 years ago
Reply to
Angry Americans United
And those 2 cheeks come together in the cloven hole that separates them.
3 years ago
TWO OPINIONS on a THIRD PARTY – Good points from both men.
TED NOEL – do it .. GOP beyond salvage ..
MIKE HUCKABEE – Do not split .. Evolve the RINOS … back into REPUBLICANS.
…
HYBRID …
Require all party candidates to sign and witness a CONTRACT OF PRINCIPLES. (from Ted’s piece)
QUID PRO QUO – – “My vote for your integrity” …Breach of contract … legal and civil financial risk …
Then the party officials have an COMPLIANCE ENFORCEMENT group, to specifically audit them.
…
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/time_for_trump_to_start_the_great_american_party.html
3 years ago
TWO OPINIONS on a THIRD PARTY – Good points from both men.
TED NOEL – do it .. GOP beyond salvage ..
MIKE HUCKABEE – Do not split .. Evolve the RINOS … back into REPUBLICANS.
…
HYBRID …
Require all party candidates to sign and witness a CONTRACT OF PRINCIPLES. (from Ted’s piece)
QUID PRO QUO – – “My vote for your integrity” …Breach of contract … legal and civil financial risk …
Then the party officials have an COMPLIANCE ENFORCEMENT group, to specifically audit them.
…
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/time_for_trump_to_start_the_great_american_party.html
3 years ago
Left already. Waiting for the new party. Thinking you can ‘fix’ the republican party is a fool’s errand.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
For the time being, that hopefully will not be too long,I am taking my name off voter rolls.
3 years ago
Well, a 3rd party would be a great middle finger symbolic gesture to the R party which still pretends it’s viable, still hasn’t grasped what “Industrial Revolution” magic the voting machine has become for the D party and still bothers to send emails to me how the R party can save America if we just send them more money. I’m not a fan of the 3rd party movement but I say go for it, I’ll join though we already saw Trump won’t do it. So at this point it doesn’t matter as I’m not going to vote as long as those machines are still around and the R’s, well, they just don’t ‘git’ it.
3 years ago
Reply to
meofcourse58
Let me follow this up briefly. You need to understand to the R party Trump supporters have no place to go. That’s right, we have no place to go so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride because the good book says He’s coming back. Hopefully soon.
3 years ago
Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to join any party. The whole lot is totally useless and are too cowardly to fight for conservative principles. That’s because they really don’t have any though they profess to do. Empty shells chasing the almighty buck- – – like everyone else. Keep them out!
3 years ago
GitRdone!
GOP does not represent its base, ashamed of its base, stabs its base in the back, and allows for an open season on its members.
GOP is a corrupt organization in business for itself that needs to go. People need and deserve to be organized and represented by an organization that trully represents them.
Burn the rotten house down and rebuild it. Nothing is left to remodel.
3 years ago
If he pulls votes from purple states as well as red and some blue the Patriot Party, with the Lion Rampant as its insignia, would at worst hold a balance of power, possibly in both houses, and be able to force the rest to negotiate honestly and transparently to get laws passed.
3 years ago
I’m all for it
3 years ago
I’ve been a republican all my life and would follow Trump in a heartbeat. GOP candidates lie to get elected then sells out middle class traditional conservatives. They are all about power and money.
3 years ago
What if Trump doesn’t try for public office again but concentrates on buying up and running a new cable-TV news network, an Internet platform and a social-network site? In that case, why not move altogether to the Libertarian Party? They have the best of the original ideals of the Republicans, and would be grateful for the numbers, not to mention the collective experience in running serious election campaigns.
3 years ago
Reply to
LeslieFish
The only thing I’ve seen that the Libertarian Party unites behind is legalization of drugs.
3 years ago
Reply to
LeslieFish
The libertarian party was started by a bunch of leftists who left the Democrat Party because it wouldn’t legalize maryjane.
3 years ago
After reading the Time article nothing matters anymore. There will be no more winning by any conservatives. The fix is in big time. The swamp and deep state are real. Which also includes republicans. Our constitutional republic is dead.
3 years ago
DO THE MATH, VOTES GET SPLIT. PRES TRUMP IS BETTER OFF CAMPAIGNING AGAINST THEM
3 years ago
I am not leaving the Republican Party; the Republican Party has left me. Yes, if Trump (or any other God-fearing, law-abiding person) starts a new party, I will happily join it. I’d actually like to see DJT start his own tv network/social media site and then see Don Jr (maybe) become the standard bearer. We need strong, honest, people to lead us. I pray that God appoints the ones He wants to those positions and that we recognize His hand. I pray for great revival to spread across the land, that He gives us insight and strategy. Yes, He is coming back for us but, until then, we have a job to do. So, strap on the armor of God and get to it.
3 years ago
Reply to
trudyg
The GOP was hijacked by RINOs and fifth column lefties. Time to leave them behind with their sham.
3 years ago
If we don’t eliminate the corrupt, compromised RINO’s, the GOP is trash. I have left the Republican Party. I will NEVER vote for a Democrat. I hope for the start of the American Patriot Party – and we need to be very careful about accepting current or former Republicans. You are a Constitutional Patriot or you’re not with the working class Trump Supporters.
3 years ago
I see no RINOs or Repubs I can support lurking on the horizon. It won’t matter as Joey and the Commies are going to abolish election by 2022 anyway. They don’t have a North Korean fortress type barrier around the DC Swamp for show. It is now permanent.
3 years ago
It’s more like 3/4 (not to mention pissed-off Democrats who have realized that heir party has turned Bolshevik)
3 years ago
Democrats and most of today’s craven Republicans are the two wings of the same loathsome Socialist carrion cavenger
3 years ago
So, this article is confusing and a bit suspicious.
First, it claims “The survey was conducted among 340 registered republicans between Jan. 28-29.”
Then goes on to say “15% of democrats and 28% of independents would be inclined to join the theoretical Trump-centered party”
How did those democrats and independents sneak into the survey of 340 registered republicans?? Were these quotes from multiple articles? Confusing.
But, even though almost all polling people are agenda-driven, anti-Conservative leftists, this is interesting. When 15% of democrats surveyed said they would join a new Trump party, it’s further proof Trump won the 2020 election.
3 years ago
Put me on the list. I have already left the Republican party in my mind. What will the Republican Party do about the truth bomb that came out Friday, February 5, 2021 — that the intelligence cyber warfare team tracked, in real time, the stealing of the 2020 election by foreign adversaries? General McInerney says it is the biggest cyber warfare attack in mankind’s history. They have thousands of pages — and each single line contains the IP addresses of the hacker and the machine/computer in the USA that was hacked, as well as specific ID computer number, times, dates, names of sources in other countries, and other hard-core evidence. ( YouTube yanked the video, but it can be found at MichaelJLindell.com — the bombshell begins at 1:35:00 ) WHAT WILL REPUBLICANS DO? About 66 percent of the hacking was done by China — the Communist nation more than happy to help seat Biden in his place of destructive influence (witness 42 executive orders). I hope this is not drug out in the Supreme Court. Dropping it there is to put those deciders’ lives at risk. Where the trillions of dollars at stake with the Dems are concerned, I believe they will stoop to anything to keep truth from prevailing. The election steal was a Communistic, globalist attempt to quench America’s light of freedom. “God is our refuge and strength — a very present help in times of trouble.” Millions of people, worldwide, are praying for truth and justice to prevail. God is exposing evil deeds, and He will act in His own time, and in His mercy and love and justice.
3 years ago
Reply to
Judith Harding
“WHAT WILL REPUBLICANS DO” you ask?? Nothing, the same as always.
3 years ago
I’m so there. And so done with the Republicans.
3 years ago
Quick fix: Take all the money out of politics. Abolish lobbying, PACS. dark money, etc. No more politicians arriving in Washington as thousandaires and leaving as millionaires. The penalty for violating the above? Life imprisonment with no parole.
3 years ago
Reply to
3M TA3
But that does not solve election fraud…BIDEN IS AND NEVER WILL BE PRESIDENT
3 years ago
It matters not if we be GOP remainers, or if we chuse to follow President Donald Trump wherever he shall go. No matter how many of us join a new party, no matter its name or inspiration, there will be just enough can’t-speak-English freshly decreed new citizens to democratically chuse corn-muffin sugar pop Joe as its party chief. For my part, I am keeping an eye on the Texit movement. After all, though I have not lived there for nigh onto 3 score and 10 years, I am a natural-born citizen of the Alamo state. Might be time for this bluebonnet to go home.
3 years ago
I’m going when it happens. If it doesn’t, I am not voting. What does it matter, if elections are corrupted.
3 years ago
President Trump spent the last 40 years building, developing and creating. The Obiden and his ilk spent the last 40 years stealing from the American people, enriching themselves by treason. The corrupt voting machines likely put the likes of Omar, Ellison, Illib and thousands of anti-Americans into office in the past as well as stealing the 2020 elections.
I am too old to join the needed revolution but certainly would join up with President Trump.
3 years ago
Likely? MOST DEFINITELY!
3 years ago
President Trump, please form it, we are with you.
3 years ago
Polls and platforms are entirely moot now that election fraud goes unpunished. I keep getting these surveys from the RNC ,not ONE question about the fraud.
3 years ago
I left the GOP already. All they have done is betray us and sell us out. Not even interested in a new party since there is no election integrity at all anymore, and no reason to vote anymore because those who stole the 2020 election will just keep on stealing them.
