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Political Pundits Might Be Done With Trump, But GOP Voters Aren’t<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p>If you’re one of the millions of Americans who want desperately for the country to move on from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-doesnt-respect-or-even-understand-the-constitution">Donald Trump</a> and his toxic brand of politics, I’ve got some bad news—he’s the odds-on favorite to be the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-didnt-clear-the-2024-field-his-campaign-is-smiling">2024 Republican nominee for president</a>.</p> <p>I don’t make the rules here (and I’m not happy about it either), but the numbers don’t lie. In the <a href="https://twitter.com/MorningConsult">latest poll from the polling firm Morning Consult</a>, Trump is winning 49 percent of the GOP field, which gives him a 19 percentage point lead over his nearest rival, Florida Gov. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-isnt-a-tough-guy-just-another-cowardly-bully">Ron DeSantis</a>. These results are mirrored in nearly every recent poll of GOP voters as Trump continues to garner <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html#polls">the support of 40 to 50 percent</a> of Republicans.</p> <p>Those numbers could certainly change before next year when GOP voters head to the polls. But what would Trump have to do to lose their support? He’s already incited an insurrection, continues to deny that he lost the 2020 election, and mishandled a pandemic that has, to date, killed more than one million Americans. Other than praising Barack Obama as the greatest president in U.S. history, calling for critical race theory curricula to be adopted nationwide, or endorsing drive-thru abortion clinics, it’s hard to see what would cause these true believers to abandon Trump.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pundits-might-be-done-with-trump-but-gop-voters-arent?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who want desperately for the country to move on from Donald Trump and his toxic brand of politics, I’ve got some bad news—he’s the odds-on favorite to be the 2024 Republican nominee for president.

I don’t make the rules here (and I’m not happy about it either), but the numbers don’t lie. In the latest poll from the polling firm Morning Consult, Trump is winning 49 percent of the GOP field, which gives him a 19 percentage point lead over his nearest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. These results are mirrored in nearly every recent poll of GOP voters as Trump continues to garner the support of 40 to 50 percent of Republicans.

Those numbers could certainly change before next year when GOP voters head to the polls. But what would Trump have to do to lose their support? He’s already incited an insurrection, continues to deny that he lost the 2020 election, and mishandled a pandemic that has, to date, killed more than one million Americans. Other than praising Barack Obama as the greatest president in U.S. history, calling for critical race theory curricula to be adopted nationwide, or endorsing drive-thru abortion clinics, it’s hard to see what would cause these true believers to abandon Trump.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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