Two in 10 to as many as three in 10 Republican primary voters in Ohio continued to resist former President Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy – and among those supporting Nikki Haley, nearly half in an ABC News exit poll of Ohio’s GOP primary said they’d back Joe Biden in November.
While majorities of respondents expressed fealty toward Trump, the extent of intraparty challenges may matter in what’s expected to be a close contest in November against President Biden. Despite his having sewn up his party’s nomination, 20% of Ohio GOP primary voters would be dissatisfied with Trump as the nominee, exit polling found, while 22% said he lacks the temperament to serve effectively and 28% said he wouldn’t be fit for office if convicted of a crime. (He denies all wrongdoing.)
I wanted to argue with this but you’re right. She got 14% of the republican votes in ohio, and 7% of 3 mil republican ohio voters in 2020 is still only like 150k, fewer votes than biden lost ohio by in 2020. I guess you could also subtract that 150k from Trump’s 2020 total and even then he’s slightly ahead…also i’m pretty sure most Haley voters crossed the aisle in 2020 anyway, just based on anecdote
It’s not bad news, certainly, but it’s more alarming how few Republican voters are willing to consider alternatives to Trump.
If they just stay home, that’s half the battle…
In addition, in these primaries some Dems may have voted in the Republican primary, given that there was no point to vote in the Democratic primary.
Oh right on did not realize they had open primaries…wtf is this article even
I mean, those numbers are not insignificant when the race will probably come down to single digits percentages in most battleground states.