Narrow majority of GOP voters want Trump to rerun for office in 2024: Poll
A narrow majority of Republican voters look forward to Donald Trump rerunning for president in 2024, according to a new poll.
A Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Tuesday showed that 52 percent of GOP voters backed Trump's nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
During a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2021 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, Trump hinted at his possible run for presidency in 2024.
In the speech, the first since leaving the Oval Office in January, Trump criticized not only the new Democratic president but also fellow-Republicans.
Another poll had already shown that Trump was the most favored nominee among the probable GOP presidential candidates, including former US Vice President Mike Pence, former US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Nikki Haley, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
The new poll suggests that despite Trump's loss in the disputed 2020 presidential election to Democratic Joe Biden, he remained the single most influential politician in the Republican camp.
"I may even decide to beat them for a third time," Trump said at the conference, referring to Democrats and apparently repeating a claim that he won the 2020 presidential election.
Mark Penn, the director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, said, "Trump could well be the Republican nominee again if he decides to run again as no one else yet has a strong enough national profile in the party."
Trump told Newsmax on Sunday that he believed it to be unlikely that any Republican would be able to beat him if he ran for president again in 2024.
"I've done a good job for this party," he asserted. "We had the greatest economy in history and then we rebuilt it a second time and the foundations were so strong that no other country can even compete with us."
Some GOP voters maintain the idea — widely publicized by Trump, who never conceded defeat — that he actually won the disputed election and that the presidency was "stolen" from him by the Democrats.
Trump has been impeached by the US House of Representatives a historic two times, including once over the instigation of a deadly mob attack on Capitol Hill while lawmakers were in the process of confirming his defeat on January 6.
On that day, before the attack, Trump told his loyalists in Washington, DC to show their support and asked them to "stop the steal."
According to the Quinnipiac, 55 percent of Americans believe Trump should not be allowed to hold elected office in the future.
Trump is also blamed for stoking racism in America.
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