Three-quarters of Republicans said they want former President Trump
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A Quinnipiac University survey found that 75 percent of Republican respondents expressed interest in Trump continuing to play a prominent role in the GOP, while 21 percent said they would not.
Sixty percent of all Americans said they didn’t want Trump to play a major role in the Republican Party, including 96 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of independents.
A majority of respondents, 55 percent, also said the former president should not hold elected office in the future. Republicans again strayed from the majority with 87 percent saying Trump should be allowed to hold elected office.
He may be down, but he’s certainly not out of favor with the GOP. Twice accused, vilified by Democrats in the process, and virtually silenced by social media … despite everything, Donald Trump is keeping a firm foothold. in the Republican Party, ”Tim Malloy, Quinnipiac University analyst, said in a press release.
The Quinnipiac University poll of 1056 adults from February 11-14 with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Trump was widely expected to be acquitted after a majority of Republican senators voted on February 9 that the trial was unconstitutional and was officially acquitted on February 13.
Seven Republican senators sided with the Democrats by voting to condemn Trump in the most bipartisan Senate trial results in history. But the Senate did not get the two-thirds majority it took to convict.
About half of the poll respondents, 51 percent, said they supported the senate condemning Trump, including 92 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Independents. A large majority of Republicans (89 percent) said they were against condemning Trump.
The House charged Trump in the last week of his presidency on charges that he incited the crowd that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. .
A majority of those surveyed (54 percent in the poll) said they believe the former president is responsible for inciting violence in the Capitol, and 68 percent said they didn’t think Trump was doing everything he could to stop the riot as soon as it started.