Three-quarters of Republicans said they want to President Trump
Donald Trump Six people who protected Roger Stone entered the Capitol during the attack: NYT Cassidy column pens explaining the vote to condemn Trump Governor of Puerto Rico: Congress ‘morally obliged’ to act on state vote MORE to play a prominent role in the Republican Party, despite his second impeachment trial, according to a survey released on Monday – two days after his acquittal.
A Quinnipiac University 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 they would not like it.
Sixty percent of all Americans said they did not want Trump to have an important role in the Republican Party, including 96% of Democrats and 61% of independents.
The majority of respondents, 55 percent, also said that the former president should not be allowed to hold an elective office in the future. Republicans again turned away from the majority with 87 percent saying that Trump should be allowed to hold an elective office.
“He may be discouraged, but he is certainly not in disgrace with the Republican Party. Twice accused of impeachment, vilified by Democrats at trial and virtually silenced by social media … after all, Donald Trump maintains a solid position in the Republican Party Party, “Quinnipiac University research analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
The Quinnipiac University survey interviewed 1,056 adults from February 11 to 14, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Trump was expected to be acquitted after most Republican senators voted that the trial was unconstitutional on February 9 and was officially acquitted on February 13.
Seven Republican senators sided with Democrats voting to condemn Trump in the most bipartisan impeachment trial in Senate history. But the Senate did not achieve the two-thirds majority needed to condemn.
About half of those surveyed, 51%, said they supported the Senate’s condemnation of Trump, including 92% of Democrats and 50% of independents. The vast majority of Republicans (89 percent) said they were against Trump’s condemnation.
The House accused Trump in the last week of his presidency on allegations that he incited the crowd that broke into the Capitol building on January 6. .
Most respondents with 54 percent in the poll said they believed the former president was responsible for inciting violence on Capitol Hill, and 68 percent said they didn’t think Trump did everything he could to stop the turmoil as soon as it started.