Even pollsters are baffled by who, exactly, is supporting Donald Trump. The real estate mogul has risen to the top of GOP polls in recent weeks, earning the support of 17 percent of Republican voters. Thing is, while the rise of Trump supporters is pretty clear, it's hazy where these supporters are from and who they are. "It's a strange coalition of people," Patrick Murray of Monmouth University told Politico. "We can't pin them down demographically. ... It appears he's cherry-picked individual voters."
As Politico puts it, "The Trump coalition looks a lot like the rest of the Republican Party." It might skew more white and more male, but not notably so. A recent Monmouth University poll reveals, if anything, Trump supporters tend to simply be "middle Americans." "They're in the middle of the Republican Party. They're not evangelicals. They're not hardline social or fiscal conservatives. They're also not on the liberal side of the party," Murray explained.
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