Republican voters back Trump but not lockstep behind 2024 bid

Published May 17, 2021 12:00am ET



Republican voters hold former President Donald Trump in high esteem and tend to agree with his dubious claims about the 2020 election, but those sentiments are not translating into overwhelming support for a third White House bid.

Republican pollsters studying post-election surveys are settling on two seemingly contradictory conclusions they say are compatible. Republican voters prefer Trump’s brand of conservative populism, what pollsters are calling “Trumpism,” over the “traditional Republicanism” of the preceding era; the former president’s agenda benefited their bottom line. But a growing segment of these same voters, frustrated by the perpetual chaos of the Trump presidency, would prefer a conventional, disciplined politician represent the party in 2024.

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