Poll: Trump easily defeats potential GOP rivals in hypothetical primary matchups

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump performed a hostile takeover of the Republican Party in 2016 but as he prepares for his 2020 reelection bid, a new poll shows that GOP voters would overwhelmingly support him against several intraparty rivals.

A Hill.TV American Barometer survey of 1,001 registered voters conducted Nov. 16-17 found that Trump would easily defeat onetime presidential rival, Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Among self-identified Republican respondents, 67 percent said they would choose Trump while only 14 percent said they would back the outgoing Ohio official.

The president would also have no trouble beating Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a long-time critic with whom he has clashed repeatedly. In a hypothetical two-way matchup, of those surveyed, just 9 percent of Republican voters supported Flake while 70 percent backed Trump in the poll.

Among independent voters (who are allowed to vote in party primaries in many states, including the first in New Hampshire), Kasich presents a more stiff challenge to Trump. Thirty-three percent of self-identified independent voters said they would support Kasich while 28 percent said they would back Trump. Trump remained ahead among all voters with 33 percent support to the outgoing Ohio governor's 32 percent.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/417683-poll-trump-would-easily-defeat-potential-gop-rivals-in

The GOP is now officially the stupid party.

[Salviati]

1. Of course he does.

It's part of the death spiral. He's driven off anyone moderate, anyone with a conscience. He's getting an increasingly larger share of a shrinking party base. That will just encourage more extremism, pandering to the remaining radicalized base, driving out even more. And so it goes.

[Raster]

4. key words: "He's getting an increasingly larger share of a shrinking party base."

The Independents and fence-sitters seem to be leaving the tRump* Rethuglican party in droves, leaving only the hard-core MAGAts. The GOP as we all knew it is dead. The surviving entity is a rancid, fetid mass of tRump*ness.

[Cha]

2. Well yeah 'cause the goputin primary voters

are his cult45.

The sane repubs are voting Blue.. ergo the Big Beautiful Blue Wave.

[Raster]

5. LOVE THIS: Cult 45

[sunonmars]

3. What you want is Kasich or somebody doing an indie challenge like Perot.

We just need to take a little bit away from each state.......

[Vinca]

6. Then Kasich or whoever should run as a third party and split the GOP vote to get Trump out of there.

If they don't, it's very likely the Republican Party will cease to exist.

[guillaumeb]

7. Recommended.

This exposes not Trump's strength, but the essential weakness of the GOP.

[tanyev]

8. OK.

[msongs]

9. maybe Mittens, will challenge the donald nt