Trump is leaking GOP voters...badly
and it's a story Corporate Media has not caught on to as of yet
The polls, which are rife with seriously jiggered results owing to everyone aggregating every poll regardless of its accuracy, have become useless. Without some level of methodology transparency, it’s nigh on impossible to glean much from their supposed “substance”.
That said, a trend has begin appearing in both national and state polls which should give the political Right pause.
So much for party unity.
These kind of weird stats matter. You expect people in your own party to support you in the 95-98% range. Once you get into the low 90s support-wise for your own party, it’s a problem. Hit 89% or less and you’re talking electoral disaster.
The Democratic Party fears bleeding from its right flank. There still are some Right of Center Democrats who will vote Republican with the right message of morality and patriotism. It’s the reason the GOP has pushed law and order, family values, and neo-isolationism messaging for the past 50 years.
The GOP, on the other hand, has never feared bleeding voters. It’s moderate factions have been messaged “no tax cuts” and “reckless Democratic spending” as a core basis for voting Republican. And these Republican voters have been surmised as being the “never Trumpers” and been vilified within their party as RINOs.1
But recently, a slew of Republicans have not merely outted themselves as Never Trumpers but have actually endorsed Kamala Harris. Former Vice Presidents Mike Pence and Dick Cheney, former members of Congress (e.g. Joe Walsh, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger), former Trump Administration officials and White House staffers, retired members of the military establishment, and a handful of retired federal judges. Here’s a more expansive list as of 4 days ago.2
Notice something? Not a lot of moderate “I’m just in this for tax cuts” rich types here. These names are Old Guard Republicans and mainstream conservatives deathly afraid of losing their party to the MAGA faction. The only way they see to right the GOP ship is to ensure an electoral loss.
Why? Mostly because they are Idealists who see Trumpism as the “Night of the Long Knives” Nihilism. Insofar as Donald Trump has promised just that, these Republicans for Harris are not wrong.
Again, so much for party unity.
Republicans in Name Only
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/12/republicans-for-kamala-harris-2024-election/