2 in 3 MAGA voters say they’d support GOP candidate accused of sexual assault: Poll
2 in 3 MAGA voters say they’d support GOP candidate accused of sexual assault: Poll
More than half of MAGA voters say they would support a Republican candidate accused of sexual assault, according to a new poll.
In a recent Politico poll, 66 percent of MAGA voters who cast their ballot for President Trump in his last contest for the White House said they would back a GOP candidate even if “a former partner has accused the Republican candidate of sexual assault” rather than support the Democratic candidate in a hypothetical congressional race.
Twenty-five percent of the MAGA voters said they would not cast their ballot for either candidate in the same hypothetical race, while 9 percent of the same group said they would cast their ballot for the Democrat.
In a larger group of Republican-leaning respondents, 42 percent said they would cast their ballot for the GOP candidate accused of sexual assault, while 11 percent went for the Democrat and 47 percent went for neither.
MAGA voters showing support for a Republican candidate alleged to have committed sexual misconduct is not new. In fact, in May 2023, a jury found that Trump himself sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.
The president has also recently faced controversy over his connection to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Politico poll was conducted July 13-15 and included 2,061 respondents. The margin of error is 2.2 percentage points.
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