70 percent of the voters want him to stay.
AB Wire
It seems like the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is losing the support of his own party members as he is gearing up for the November election.
Just two days after top Republican security officers denounced the candidacy of Donald Trump, a survey conducted by Reuters shows that about one-fifth of the registered Republicans do not want Trump to become the president of the US.
According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, 19 percent of the Republicans want Trump to drop out of the election. While 70 percent of the voters want him to stay, 10 percent said they ‘don’t know’.
The poll was conducted between August 5 and 8 among 396 registered Republicans.
In the survey conducted among 1162 registered voters, 44 percent opined they want Trump to drop out. The support for Trump’s presidency has declined considerably in recent times. In the previous poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, only 35 percent of likely voters supported Trumps candidacy. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had increased her lead to over 7 percent in the survey.
On Tuesday, Trump had again stoked a controversy after saying that gun rights activists could take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton appoints judges supporting strict gun control measures after being elected president.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said at a rally. “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know,” he added.
A statement released by fifty Republican national security officials including a former CIA director had expressed resentment over Trump becoming the next US President as they think his tenure will go into the history books as one of the most reckless four years.
“Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be president. He weakens US moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the US Constitution, US laws and US institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary,” a statement released by the officials read.