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As Trump proclaims "The Party is Unified like Never Before" coming out of S.Carolina...
There is no denying that the party is NOT "unified" and NOT consolidating behind Trump.
He has the core Magat vote locked up but both he and Joe Biden are running Incumbent Primary campaigns and only Biden is performance is anywhere near what you would expect of an incumbent campaign, with support numbers in the 90%+ range. if Biden was getting 55% +/- there is no doubt he would have to step down.
Trump's consistent 55%+/- 5% range is simply terrible for anyone running as the Incumbent, especially one who has the entire party apparatus behind him and pretty much every vocal, prominent GOP Congress person behind him.
There is no way the party voters should not have folded in behind him and for him to not be getting Biden like numbers when it is so clear he WILL be the candidate and thus staying with his primary opponents is futile. So what that 45% is showing is that even when they know they cannot win, they still will not support Trump.
Instead what we see is a near locked 45% +/- 5% who are never Trumpers within the Republi'can' party.
59% of Haley voters have said they would never vote Trump and would vote Biden, if Trump is the candidate. That represents about 24% of all Republi'cans' and one year ago a NYT/Siena Poll said 25% were Never Trumpers a year ago, which means that number is consistent and locked.
There is no denying that the party is NOT "unified" and NOT consolidating behind Trump.
He has the core Magat vote locked up but both he and Joe Biden are running Incumbent Primary campaigns and only Biden is performance is anywhere near what you would expect of an incumbent campaign, with support numbers in the 90%+ range. if Biden was getting 55% +/- there is no doubt he would have to step down.
Trump's consistent 55%+/- 5% range is simply terrible for anyone running as the Incumbent, especially one who has the entire party apparatus behind him and pretty much every vocal, prominent GOP Congress person behind him.
There is no way the party voters should not have folded in behind him and for him to not be getting Biden like numbers when it is so clear he WILL be the candidate and thus staying with his primary opponents is futile. So what that 45% is showing is that even when they know they cannot win, they still will not support Trump.
Instead what we see is a near locked 45% +/- 5% who are never Trumpers within the Republi'can' party.

59% of Haley voters have said they would never vote Trump and would vote Biden, if Trump is the candidate. That represents about 24% of all Republi'cans' and one year ago a NYT/Siena Poll said 25% were Never Trumpers a year ago, which means that number is consistent and locked.

