3 in 4 Republicans want Trump to play big role in GOP: Poll
Most Republicans in the United States say they want former President Donald Trump to play a prominent role in the GOP, a new poll shows.
The Quinnipiac University poll, published on Monday, showed that three out of four Republicans want to see Trump to continue to play a big role in the GOP, despite Trump's chaotic four-year stint as president and the heavy blows he dealt to the party, causing the GOP to lose the House, the Senate, and the White House.
Republicans reportedly fear Trump will start his own party and thus divide their votes.
The results of the poll, conducted on 1,056 adults from February 11 to 14, also showed that most Americans believe Trump was guilty as charged in a historic second impeachment trial.
The survey also showed that more than half of the Americans interviewed, or 54 percent of them, considered Trump as the instigator of the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6.
The attack prompted a historic second impeachment trial against Trump, but the Republican-controlled Senate acquitted the former president last Saturday.
Some Senate Republicans have said that their vote to acquit Trump should not be read as an embrace of the former president, though.
Senior GOP lawmakers such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the ex-president should not feel vindicated because he was acquitted.
"Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty," McConnell said on the floor Saturday, referring to the January 6 assault on the US Capitol.
On January 6, and before the attack, Trump told his loyalists, who had gathered in Washington, DC to show their support, that his votes had been stolen, urging them to "stop the steal."
Congressional lawmakers were at the time in the process of confirming Joe Biden's win in the disputed 2020 US presidential election.
Most Americans, 55 percent, said they believed Trump should not be allowed to hold elected office in the future, according to the Quinnipiac.
People in the United States mostly believe that Trump was not only to blame for inciting the violence against the US Capitol building but also for stoking racism in the US society during his presidency.
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