Donald Trump Loses Republican Support After Impeachment News: Poll

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After being arraigned last week on charges related to a hush money payment to a porn actress before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has lost support among Republicans, a recent poll shows.

In the survey, conducted March 29-31 by publication Issues & Insights (I&I) and pollster TIPP and released Monday, Trump—who is seeking his third bid for the presidency—is still the GOP’s favored candidate for in the presidency. But he lost 4 percentage points among Republicans during the survey, with his impeachment expected on March 30, including Trump himself, who at one point predicted he would be arrested.

Support for Trump in the 2024 race dropped from 51 percent to 47 percent within his own party between March and April, “perhaps affected by media leaks and rumors of his impeachment,” he wrote. of I&I. The margin of error for the poll, which polled 456 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, is plus or minus 5 points.

Donald Trump arrives at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 4. Earlier that day, the former president pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to 34 counts of falsifying records of business. Alex Wong/Getty Images

On Wednesday last week, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a $130,000 payment by then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. According to prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the payment was made to silence the former adult movie star about an affair she said she had with Trump a decade earlier. Trump was then paid by the Trump Organization, with the money recorded on the company’s books as “legal fees,” according to the indictment.

Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing, as well as an affair with Daniels, calling the case against him a political “hunt.” But the former president’s attempts to galvanize his supporters after his arrest appear to have failed to generate support for his 2024 candidacy.

Although Trump’s popularity among Republicans has dipped slightly, the I&I/TIPP poll shows that support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the 2024 Republican presidential candidate was 23 percent in April, up from 22 percent in March.

“Although it doesn’t seem like much, it closes the gap between him and Trump by 17 percent,” I&I wrote. “So DeSantis, at least for now, is clearly in the game.”

While DeSantis has been widely discussed as a potential 2024 candidate, the governor has yet to confirm that he is running.

The poll also found that support for President Joe Biden’s 2024 candidacy fell among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents from March to April, from 43 to 39 percent. But, unlike the Republicans, the Democrats have no real alternative to Biden. Eleven percent of poll respondents said they weren’t sure who to support in 2024 or vaguely said they would support “other.”

Newsweek has reached out to the Trump Organization and representatives of DeSantis via email for comment.

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