The majority of G.O.P. Voters Want to Let Trump In the dust, Polls Find

While he isn't consolidating his support, however, the former president is weakened within his own party, particularly with college-educated and younger Republicans. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is the most popular choice.

While Donald J. Trump considers opening the doors to an unprecedentedly late White House campaign, a New York Times/Siena college survey shows that his post-presidential attempt to build his support with his own Republican Party has instead left Trump weak, with more than 50% of the primary voters looking for someone else to be president in 2024, and a substantial portion of them are threatening to leave his candidacy if he is elected. nomination.

In focusing on the political payback within his party rather than tending to the wounds that were opened by his shrewd attempts to hold on to power following his defeat in the 2020 election the. Trump appears to have just exacerbated the divisions among Republicans in his long revenge tour. A large majority of the primary vote younger than 35 64 percent of those who voted in the primary and 65 percent of those who have at least a bachelor's degree -- an indicator of the preferences of the donor class said to pollsters that they would choose to vote in favor of Donald. Trump in a presidential primary.

Mr. Trump's behavior on the morning of Jan. 6 is believed to be a factor in the fall in his popularity as well as among a tiny but important portion of Republicans who could be the backbone of his opponents in a primary election. In the primary, 75 percent of voters believed that the. Trump was "just exercising his right to contest the election," more than one-in-five said that the president "went so far that he threatened American democracy."

In general all, Trump is a winner overall. Trump maintains his primacy within the Republican Party: If he were to face five other possible Republican presidential contenders 50 percent of voters in the primary said they would vote for him in the third time.