Politico conducted a poll entirely on Saturday, following the video drop on Friday featuring Trump’s lewd and disgusting comments about how he tried “like a bitch” to convince a woman to cheat on her husband, asking whether the GOP should go ahead and run the gross old man to be leader of the free world. Voters remarkably said yes for some inexplicable reason.
A wave of Republican officials abandoned Donald Trump on Saturday, but, at least for now, rank-and-file Republicans are standing by the party’s presidential candidate, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted immediately after audio was unearthed Friday that had the GOP nominee crudely bragging about groping women and trying to lure a married woman into an affair.
Overall, fewer than four-in-10 voters — 39 percent — think Trump should end his presidential campaign, while only slightly more voters, 45 percent, think he should not drop out.
But voters are largely viewing Trump’s comments through their own partisan lens: 70 percent of Democrats say Trump should end his campaign, but just 12 percent of Republicans — and 13 percent of female Republicans — agree.
While 74-percent majority of all voters had a negative reaction to the video, 61 percent said it makes them feel either somewhat or much less favorable toward Trump, but 28 percent said it doesn’t affect their view of Trump; 8 percent said it makes them feel more favorably toward Trump.
Only 48 percent of GOP voters said it makes them feel less favorably toward Trump, and 36 percent said it doesn’t affect their opinions of Trump. That compares to 69 percent of Democrat voters said they had a very negative impression after watching it.
Also of note in the poll, Hillary Clinton is still winning, as she has been for some time in most polls. She’s up four points in this poll.
“Stand by your guy who is losing the election to the worst democrat in the modern era,” perhaps would be the more accurate theme. Expect Trump voters to brag about the first part and treat it as accurate, and to ignore the part about him losing to Hillary, or treat it as inaccurate. Because of course.