'Revealing Poll Shows Many Republicans Scared of COVID-19 Are Flocking To Biden'
'Revealing poll shows many Republicans scared of COVID-19 are flocking to Biden.' By Alex Henderson, Aug. 17, 2020. Alternet.
President Donald Trumps reelection strategy continues to be a rally-the-base approach, and millions of diehard MAGA voters have not been swayed by the coronavirus pandemic. But journalist Philip Bump, in the Washington Post, notes that support for Trump is not universal among Republican voters and that according to a new Post/ABC News poll, one in six registered Republicans who are worried about being infected with coronavirus plan to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden.
- Nurses working alongside Airmen with the 125th Air Expeditionary Squadron begin antibody testing at the Orange Co., CA convention ctr. community testing site, May 9, 2020.
About half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say theyre worried that they or their families might contract the coronavirus and a fifth of that group say they plan to vote for Biden, Bump explains. Looking only at registered Republican voters, the figure is 1 in 6. Not surprisingly, the poll found that Trump enjoys his strongest support among Republicans. But the Republicans who are the most worried about coronavirus, according to Bump, are the most likely to cross party lines and vote for Biden.
Partisanship can be difficult to extricate from views of Trump, Bump reports, but the Post/ABC poll shows that Republicans who are more worried about the virus and who are more likely to say it isnt under control are also more likely to say that they disapprove of Trumps handling of the pandemic. Bump adds, Among all adults, 65% of those who say theyre not worried about someone close to them contracting the virus approve of Trumps handling of the pandemic, compared with 28% of those who are worried about contracting it a 37-point difference...
More, https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/revealing-poll-shows-many-republicans-scared-of-19-are-flocking-to-biden/
*'One in 6 Republicans worried about contracting the coronavirus plan to vote for Biden.' Philip Bump, Wash. Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/17/one-in-6-republicans-worried-about-contracting-coronavirus-plan-vote-joe-biden/
dubyadiprecession
(5,716 posts)Well, its Midnight in America, under Trump, because we cant sleep and were worried and were sick!
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)our D-Day- for Democrats, Democracy at stake and the Planet, if I can borrow that massive endeavor name.
The chaos, dysfunction and decline has to end! And we and the earth survive.
pamela
(3,469 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Older, reliable, often Trump-fan voters are quite likely to fall in the categories of
(1) Afraid of COVID.
(2) Dependent on mail delivery of lifesaving medications.
Oops.
stopdiggin
(11,320 posts)but I'm sure I'm not the only one to see this as a very small number of potential "changed" votes. 10% of Rs. Even smaller number of registered Rs.
Like I said -- take what we can get -- but hardly a groundswell of people (at least Republican people) abandoning Trump. (they drank the kool-aid)
Quemado
(1,262 posts)# of Trump votes in Michigan in 2016: 2,279,543
# of Clinton votes in Michigan in 2016: 2,268,839
If this poll is accurate, then:
50% of 2016 Republican voters in Michigan worried about the virus: 1,139,772
Of those 1,139,772 voters, the number of those voters (1 in 6) who say they will cross party lines and vote for Biden: 189,202
Projection:
# of Trump votes in Michigan in 2020: 2,090,341 (2,279,543 - 189,202)
# of Biden votes in Michigan in 2020: 2,458,041 (2,268,839 + 189,202)
Biden wins Michigan by 367,700 votes.