Three-quarters of Republicans said they wanted ex President Trump
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A University of Quinnipiac survey determined that 75 percent of Republican respondents expressed interest in Trump continuing to play a prominent role in the Republican Party, while 21 percent said he would not.
Sixty percent of all Americans said they did not want Trump to play a major role in the Republican party, including 96 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of independents.
The majority of respondents, 55%, also said the former president should not be allowed to hold an elected office in the future. Republicans backed away from the majority again with 87% saying Trump should be allowed to hold elected office.
“He may have fallen, but he’s certainly not out of favor with the Republican Party. Twice accused, vilified by Democrats at trial and virtually silenced by social media … yet Donald Trump maintains a solid point of view. support for the Republican Party, “Tim Malloy, a University of Quinnipiac poll analyst, said in a statement.
The University of Quinnipiac survey surveyed 1,056 adults from Feb. 11-14 with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Trump was expected to be acquitted after a majority of Republican senators voted that the trial was unconstitutional on Feb. 9 and that he was officially acquitted on Feb. 13.
Seven Republican senators sided with Democrats voting to condemn Trump to the results of the most bipartisan Senate indictment trial in history. But the Senate did not reach the two-thirds majority needed to condemn.
About half of those polled in the poll, with 51 percent, said they supported the Senate condemning Trump, including 92 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of independents. A large majority of Republicans, with 89%, said they were against condemning Trump.
The House accused Trump in the last week of his presidency of the accusations he incited to the crowd that broke into the Capitol building on Jan. 6. The riot killed five people, including a Capitol police officer, and injured many by law enforcement.
The majority of respondents, with 54 percent of the survey, said they believed the former president was responsible for inciting violence at the Capitol and 68 percent said they did not believe Trump would do his best. to stop the riot once it started.