The good news for Donald Trump in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday is that 70 percent of registered Republicans want him to stay in the race as the GOP nominee. On the other hand, 19 percent of Republicans want him to drop out and 10 percent "don't know." The numbers got worse when Reuters looked at all registered voters: Forty-four percent say they favor Trump exiting the race, which, Reuters notes, is "9 points higher than his support for the presidency in the latest Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll registered on Monday." In Tuesday's tracking poll, Hillary Clinton led Trump by 7 percentage points.
A big part of Trump's poll erosion is from Republican women in particular, The New York Times notes, pointing among other numbers to a 13 point drop among female GOP voters since the conventions. In late July, a New York Times/CBS News poll found that 72 percent of GOP women said they would vote for Trump, versus the 93 percent who backed Mitt Romney in 2012 and George W. Bush in 2004, or the 89 percent who voted for John McCain in 2008. Debbie Walsh, director of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics, tells The Times that Trump has ramped up his pugnacious and "inflammatory" rhetoric since securing the nomination, "and I think we are seeing that women in particular have a real problem with it." The Reuters poll was conducted Aug. 5-8, with a confidence interval of 6 points for the GOP numbers and 3 points for all voters.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
Create an account with the same email registered to your subscription to unlock access.
-
Today's political cartoons - April 20, 2024Cartoons Saturday's cartoons - papal ideas, high-powered debates, and more
-
5 sleeper hit cartoons about Trump's struggles to stay awake in courtCartoons Artists take on courtroom tranquility, war on wokeness, and more
-
The true story of Feud: Capote vs. The SwansIn depth The writer's fall from grace with his high-flying socialite friends in 1960s Manhattan is captured in a new Disney+ series
-
Poland, Germany nab alleged anti-Ukraine spiesSpeed Read A man was arrested over a supposed Russian plot to kill Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
-
Israel hits Iran with retaliatory airstrikeSpeed Read The attack comes after Iran's drone and missile barrage last weekend
-
Peter Murrell: Sturgeon's husband charged over SNP 'embezzlement' claimsSpeed Read SNP expresses 'shock' as former chief executive rearrested in long-running investigation into claims of mishandled campaign funds
-
Mark Menzies: Tories investigate MP after 'bad people' cash claimsSpeed Read Fylde MP will sit as an independent while party looks into allegations he misused campaign funds on medical expenses and blackmail pay-out
-
Why Johnson won't just pass Ukraine aidSpeed Read The House Speaker could have sent $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine — but it would have split his caucus
-
Sudan on brink of collapse after a year of warSpeed Read 18 million people face famine as the country continues its bloody downward spiral
-
Trump's first criminal trial starts with jury picksSpeed Read The former president faces charges related to hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels
-
How will Israel respond to Iran's direct attack?Speed Read Iran’s weekend attack on Israel could escalate into a wider Middle East war
