Donald Trump Stung in Primary As Huge Number of Republicans Vote Against Him

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Apr 03, 2024 at 4:22 AM EDT | Updated Apr 03, 2024 at 7:42 AM EDT


Donald Trump suffered a blow in a number of primary votes on Tuesday, after thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him. The former president is the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential elections, having last month won enough delegates to secure the nomination and because all of his rivals have dropped out of the race.

That, however, has not quelled dissent among some moderate Republicans and supporters of his rivals like Nikki Haley (who dropped out of the race last month) who have indicated they would never vote for Trump.

With that in mind, although Trump comfortably won four primary votes on Tuesday, in Wisconsin, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island, it is significant that in all of those states, a proportion of Republicans voted for politicians no longer in the race, showing anti-Trump feeling among the GOP is alive and well. This dissent could prove difficult in swing states when the Republican faces Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the November election.

In Wisconsin, Trump won 78.9 percent of the vote share while Haley, the former South Carolina governor, garnered 12.8 percent of the vote and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis 3.3 percent of the vote, according to NBC News. In Connecticut, the former president won 77.8 percent of the vote. Fourteen percent went to Haley while a further 4.8 percent said they were uncommitted. Trump also lost some 20 percent of the vote in New York where he gained 82.1 percent of ballots to Haley's 12.9 percent. In Rhode Island, he won 83.7 percent of the vote, while 10.6 percent of voters opted for Haley, instead.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-republican-primary-delegates-votes-1886279

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While much of the media chooses to continue focusing on the "anti-Biden 'uncommitted'" voters, they intentionally completely ignore the "Haley Factor", where her supporters are consistently coming in at between 11% - 20% of the vote (on average about 14%) against 45.

So for example per AP for Biden in WI, it was 11.5% "other" ( "uninstructed" + Phillips). But for 45, it was 18.3% "other" ( "uninstructed" + Halley + DeSatan)

[RobertDevereaux]

1. Calling out a typo...

“among some moderate Republicans”
ought to read
“among some slightly-less-fascist Republicans”

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Yes, that species has gone extinct

The last mating pair of moderate republicans has not produced any offspring in years.

[4lbs]

7. The last 'moderate' Republican that "spoke to me" was Eisenhower, in the 1950s.

His views and GOP party platform then were great.

Now.... umm.... the GOP has been lost in the weeds for years, and the foliage is only getting higher.

[OMGWTF]

12. Rethuglicans don't even have a platform

Other than “Whatever Trump says.”

WTF is with these polls showing Biden losing to Little Donnie Fuckface?

[4lbs]

14. Yeah. I guess those polls have to show a close race to get that revenue.

No one wants to click on a poll that reads "Biden blasting (orange face) by 15 points."

Better to get clicks and eyeballs until November by saying "Biden and (Dumpy the Clown) virtually tied. This is gonna be a nailbiter for months"

[The Roux Comes First]

23. Wasn't There a Rockefeller Later, Too?

[4lbs]

24. Yeah, there was a Nelson Rockefeller who was Gerald Ford's VP after Nixon and before Carter.

Before that he was Governor of New York.

However, many of Nelson's initiatives were blocked by more GOP traditionalists in the Ford and Nixon admins. I guess they felt he was trying to grab too much power and was interfering too much in Latin American affairs.

[twodogsbarking]

3. Imploding.

collapse or cause to collapse violently inwards.
end or fail suddenly or dramatically.

[NJCher]

5. I luvs me some implosions

So incredible. All the signs were there: red blinking lights, loud sirens. How could anyone—even a magat—not see down the road?

Maybe this is a consequence of believing a steady stream of lies. Reality doesn’t even enter the picture.

[IronLionZion]

4. Republicans in disarray

we need more articles about why Republicans don't want Trump

[jaxexpat]

8. Yes! That would finally expose the unrelenting cruelty of Progressives who refuse to forget..........

nor allow others to forgive those who impelled the ascent of 45 onto the world stage, an unrepentant clown POTUS for the amusement of America's detractors and a source of dread for all who depend on her symbolic sanity.

Will those cruel truth-teller folk never allow a return to normalcy? There must be, after all, a GOP for the reliable harbor to shelter the only best hope of civilization, Conservatism. A safe place alee from the dreaded winds of change and the devil's own "logical thinking".

Do any doubt the prevalence of in this missive?

[IronLionZion]

11. I was hoping it would inspire more Repubs to not vote for him in November

[jaxexpat]

19. I'm hoping they just stay away from polling places for at least 8 more years.

Democrats need to take the down ticket candidates as well. Democracy cannot survive if the "wealth worshipers" control the congress.

[liberalla]

17. Yes. Let's start having interviews and articles asking just that question...

Why don't more Republicans want Trump?

Why are reptiles (oops, I mean republicans) turning away from Trump?

[IronLionZion]

18. He drained the swamp

reptiles, er, Republicans like the swamp. They just wanted him to destroy literal wetlands.

[Timewas]

6. Says as Much

About the stupidity of the people as it does about frump

[lastlib]

9. This. The fact that not-TSF only got 20% says volumes....

...about GOPee stoopidity. In the face of two impeachments, 91 criminal-count indictments, massive civil judgments, and a sexual assault judgment, only weapons-grade stoopid would support the slug.

[relayerbob]

10. Add to that

The number of people who just chose (and will in the general) not to vote at all.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Shit like this at least gives me hope that a ton of repubs won't vote for trump...

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If he truly loses this much of his base vote, Dems just need to GOTV to do well this fall, including in the House and maybe even the Senate.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Exactly

All that is being put out there right now is to deliberately cause Democrats to hand-wring and "worry" and become disenchanted and demoralized so they stay home. It's the same old bullshit year after year. It's their default position despite watching election after election (including special elections) with Democrats "over-performing". They rarely write about the GOP and what they should "worry" about despite the election data showing flashing red sirens for them.

The bottom line will come down to GOTV and turnout.

[Qutzupalotl]

21. Yes. We only need to shave off a few percent

to win in some surprising areas. An even more decisive win if some Haley supporters vote for Biden.

Trump will have to defend a lot of red states on his limited budget.

[Grins]

15. Voters who knew he has the nomination still turned out to vote "NO!"

That’s saying something!

[riversedge]

20. We can hope they do the same in November!!

[BaronChocula]

22. Trump fatigue is real

We saw it in the 2020 election. The only problem is some people get over it fast. Lucky for us, the rapist just can't keep himself out of trouble, nor can he hide his torrent of continued business failures. He is a constant reminder of what a waste of a clump of cells he is.