Former President Donald Trump is pushing back on a recent poll showing he is losing support from the GOP in his post-presidential life.
That survey, commissioned by Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, and conducted by veteran North Carolina GOP pollster Carter Wrenn, showed the number of GOP voters who view the former president “very favorably” sinking 19 percentage points since a separate poll from a different pollster was fielded in October.
The poll also found that half of Republican primary voters are unswayed by Trump’s opposition to certain candidates.
In a statement issued through the former president’s leadership PAC on Tuesday, Trump’s pollster John McLaughlin insisted that Trump remains “the strongest endorsement I have ever witnessed in politics” and that most GOP voters are eager to see the former president mount another campaign for the White House in 2024.
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“Polling continually shows that when President Trump endorses, it almost always clears the field and puts his America First candidate on the path to victory,” McLaughlin said, according to The Hill. “That’s why everybody is coming to Mar-a-Lago for his support.”
McLaughlin cited a slew of numbers from unidentified polling to back up his claim that the former president would have clear majority support of GOP primary voters in 2024 before turning his criticism directly to John Bolton, the former national security adviser who has emerged as a vocal Trump critic.
“John Bolton’s failed warmonger views are completely out of touch with today’s Republican Party and the majority of Americans,” McLaughlin said. “President Trump’s successful America First policies kept us safe. This is a big reason why Republicans want him to run again.”
McLaughlin’s statement came hours after Bolton’s super PAC, the John Bolton PAC, released the findings of a poll showing Trump’s standing among Republican voters weakening.
n releasing the results of the poll on Tuesday, Bolton said that he hoped to close the so-called rhetoric gap — the gulf between what pundits say to be true and what voters actually believe.
“We were motivated in part because of the palpable discrepancy in our public discourse between what commentators, politicians and others assert about the present and future status of the Republican Party, and the evidence they possess to support their contentions,” Bolton said, The Hill reported.
