One-fifth of GOP voters would prefer a different candidate than Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
While 76 percent of Republican voters say that they would support Trump as the candidate in 2020, according to a new Morning Consult poll, 20 percent say they would support another candidate. The other 4 percent either did not know or had no opinion.
Trump currently has one challenger in the Republican primary contest.
Bill Weld, a former governor of Massachusetts, announced last month that he launched an exploratory committee to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination for president in 2020.
It is uncommon for an incumbent president to face a primary challenge when running for re-election.
Younger Republicans are less likely to support Trump’s nomination, but 63 percent of those 18-29 years old would still support his candidacy.
Men and women Republican voters feel almost the same, while 20 percent of men would support candidates other than Trump and 21 percent of women say the same.
More than a dozen Democrats are running in the primaries, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., among others.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has expressed his consideration of running as an independent in the 2020 elections, a move widely criticized by Democrats who feel he will split the vote and lead to another Trump presidency.
The survey polled 53,408 registered voters who said they vote in the Republican primary or caucus. It was conducted Feb. 1-28 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percent.
