52% of Republicans Don't Want Trump As the Nominee, Only 45% Like Him

[Doctor Jack]

Less than half — 45 percent — of Republican voters say they are satisfied with Donald Trump as their party's presidential nominee, according to the latest results from an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday.

Another 52 percent said they would have preferred someone else as the GOP standard bearer, while the levels of satisfaction are reversed among Democratic voters, 52 percent of which said they are satisfied with Hillary Clinton as their party's nominee in November.

The results break down ideological and educational lines.

Among conservative Republicans, 53 percent said they would have preferred a candidate other than Trump, while 45 percent of that group said they are fine with the Manhattan real-estate mogul as the nominee. Moderate Republicans split at 49 percent each, while 58 percent of Republicans who have a high-school education or less said they are satisfied. Sixty percent with a college degree said they would like someone else.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-republicans-polls-224853

[lancer78]

1. Hillary and Warren

Need to back-off, or the Republicans will replace him. If he is shown to be losing, I don't even think his base will support him and will gladly take someone else if that someone can keep HRC from the White House.

[Doctor Jack]

2. But a replacement candidate will have...

...no money, no ads, no campaign, no ground game, and Trump supporters will sit out in protest. Its a lose-lose situation for them. However, I do think that booting trump would be good for them long term. They might lose the Trump Klan but they could at least have a shot at winning back some of the many, many groups he has alienated.

[lancer78]

3. I doubt that

his supporters, what few there are, will sit out in protest. If the Republican party shows what a disaster he is, then they will easily vote for the replacement.

Money is no object, the Koch's can write a billion dollar check tomorrow morning.

Trump has no campaign or ground game NOW, so there would be no difference there.

[Lord Magus]

5. Replacing Trump is wishful thinking on the part of Republicans.

They would love to have a different candidate, but there's no viable way to pull it off. This poll shows that 52% of Republican voters would prefer somebody else, but that won't happen for the same reason that Trump won the Republican primaries despite 55% voting for somebody else. Those who don't want Trump are unable to unite around any single person they do want. So not only would any coup attempt at the convention turn Trump's millions of rapid cultists against the Republican Party (frankly America would be incredibly lucky if all the Trump cult did was stay home in November rather than responding with armed violence), they'd also not be able to unify around whoever was parachuted in as a replacement. You'd have millions more Republicans saying "I didn't want Trump but I don't want this guy either." In the end, most of them would fall in line because they hate Hillary, but not enough to make up for the loss of Trump supporters who hate everybody except their bad-combover messiah.

[Mz Pip]

4. Only 45%?

The idea that that many people find him acceptable is frightening.