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DonViejo

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Fri Jun 9, 2017, 11:48 AM Jun 2017

The Daily 202: What would it take for the Republican base to stop trusting Donald Trump?

By James Hohmann June 9 at 10:58 AM

THE BIG IDEA: A Washington Post/ABC News poll in late April found that 81 percent of Republicans think President Trump is honest and trustworthy – compared to 38 percent of Americans overall and 34 percent of independents. In the spring of 2016, not long before he secured the GOP nomination, just 46 percent of self-identified Republicans said Trump is honest and trustworthy. Immediately after the convention in Cleveland, that popped to 69 percent and continued to rise after his November victory.

Besides becoming their party’s standard bearer, what specifically has Trump done in the past 15 months to persuade one in three Republicans who thought he was dishonest that he can now be trusted?

The knee-jerk reaction to James Comey’s very credible and very serious allegations yesterday, which the former FBI director made under oath and has contemporaneous notes to back up, is the strongest proof point yet of the rising tribalism that has infected our politics.

We saw a similar dynamic two weeks ago when many GOP apparatchiks rallied to the defense of Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte after he physically assaulted a reporter. And it has not stopped at the water’s edge. When Barack Obama was president, a Post-ABC poll found that only 22 percent of Republicans supported missile strikes against Syria in response to Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against civilians. After Trump did it, 86 percent of Republicans supported strikes for the exact same reason.

It’s easy to forget amidst the donnybrook, but Comey has been a card-carrying Republican virtually all of his life. George W. Bush appointed him as a U.S. attorney and, later, deputy attorney general. He was a hero on the right when he rebuked Hillary Clinton as “extremely careless” last summer, but attitudes have shifted now that he’s going after Trump. A Post-ABC poll conducted this week found that just 27 percent of Americans believe Trump fired Comey “for the good of the country.” But 71 percent of Republicans did.

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The Daily 202: What would it take for the Republican base to stop trusting Donald Trump? (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
Who cares? If 60% see and act we don't need to waste time beachbum bob Jun 2017 #1
They will never ever admit they made a bad choice. Later they will be saying it was a democrat luvMIdog Jun 2017 #2
Brain transplants. Turbineguy Jun 2017 #3

luvMIdog

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2. They will never ever admit they made a bad choice. Later they will be saying it was a democrat
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 12:14 PM
Jun 2017

conspiracy and claim all evidence was fabricated. That's how they roll

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