Former President Donald Trump’s support among Republicans has not wavered amid news of his latest impeachment.
Results of a recent national survey by Quinnipiac University show that 53% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters support Trump over nine other Republican candidates, including Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis had the second-highest support among Republican voters, with 23% saying they preferred him as president.
On Thursday, Trump was indicted on 37 criminal charges related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents in the Southern District of Florida. During a court appearance in Miami on Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to the positions
“Despite the indictment in Miami, President Trump’s support among Republican and Republican-leaning voters is basically unchanged,” said Tim Malloy, political analyst for the Quinnipiac poll, which was conducted by telephone between 8 and on June 12.
“We finished this survey two days before the actual indictment, but people knew it was coming. [It] “It didn’t affect him at all,” Malloy said. “He remains very solid, clearly with his base and with his party.”
Malloy says Trump could lose support if more criminal charges are brought against him.
Even so, the results were largely unchanged from a Quinnipiac poll conducted in May. That poll showed Trump with 56 percent support among Republican primary candidates, about a month after he was indicted in New York.
Trump has done it too pleaded not guilty nearly three dozen criminal charges in Manhattan stemming from alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump and Daniels allegedly had an affair.
The margin of error for the June 8-12 Quinnipiac poll is 3.7 percentage points. Seven hundred Republican and Republican-leaning voters were interviewed in the poll.
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