Forty-two percent of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers said that former President Trump’s recent remarks about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the country makes them more likely to support him…
There’s some subset here who are just trolling the polls or giving the answer that supports their candidate regardless. But even reading this flatly, I think that’s fine for Biden. He’s never getting the “poison the blood” vote, that’s the 42% of the furthest right 50% of the country.
But then there’s the 58% who don’t like this. A large number of them will still vote for Trump in the General if they vote because they still like him better than Biden, but this is one more thing making them maybe not vote, maybe protest vote for a 3rd party, whatever. That’s something.
There’s some subset here who are just trolling the polls or giving the answer that supports their candidate regardless. But even reading this flatly, I think that’s fine for Biden. He’s never getting the “poison the blood” vote, that’s the 42% of the furthest right 50% of the country.
But then there’s the 58% who don’t like this. A large number of them will still vote for Trump in the General if they vote because they still like him better than Biden, but this is one more thing making them maybe not vote, maybe protest vote for a 3rd party, whatever. That’s something.