Almost half of Republicans would leave the Republican Party, join the Trump party.

Nearly half of Republicans would not hesitate to leave the Republican Party and join a new party led by former President Donald Trump, according to a Suffolk University / USA Today poll of Trump voters released on Sunday. The survey revealed that 46% said they would leave their party, while only 27% said they would not leave the Republican Party. The rest is undecided. Half of the Trump voters interviewed said the Republican Party should be “more loyal to Trump”. Only 19% said otherwise and think the Republican Party should be less loyal to Trump. “We feel that Republicans are not fighting enough for us and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every day,” said a small Milwaukee businessman.

The poll showed that Trump’s voters are much more loyal to the former president than to the Republican Party. While 54% of respondents said they were loyal to Trump, only 34% said they were loyal to the party. The numbers focus on the dilemma that Republican leaders are facing when trying to adjust to a post-Trump world. Trump harshly criticized Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who voted to absolve the former president in the impeachment trial, but later said the former president was “morally” responsible for the January 6 Capitol rebellion. “Mitch is a serious, taciturn and serious political hack, and if Republican senators stay with him, they won’t win again,” said Trump.

Those who went against Trump in his second impeachment are likely to face a reaction from voters, at least according to Sunday’s poll. Eight out of 10 Trump voters say they are less likely to vote for a Republican who supported the former president’s impeachment. The reason Republicans are so willing to punish anyone who voted for Trump’s impeachment is at least in part because they continue to believe lies about what happened in the January 6 riot. Nearly 60 percent of Trump voters say the riot was “mainly an antifa-inspired attack that involved only a few Trump supporters.” No wonder 59% of Trump’s voters want him to run for president again in 2024.

Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference next weekend, where, among other issues, he must speak about the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement in general.