{"id":11072,"date":"2023-06-30T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T11:41:39","slug":"why-trump-is-polling-much-better-among-very-conservative-primary-voters-than-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is Polling Much Better Among Very Conservative Primary Voters Than In 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Trump has come to define who and what Republican Party activists \u2014 that is, people who volunteer for political campaigns, donate money, work for politicians, etc. \u2014 think of as conservative. Their research, for instance, found that GOP activists viewed Trump critics like former Sens. Ben Sasse and Patrick Toomey as much less conservative than their voting records in Congress indicated. Meanwhile, GOP activists viewed Trump boosters as the most reliably conservative politicians.
But Trump has also powerfully redefined what constitutes conservatism for rank-and-file Republican voters, according to my analyses of data from the Cooperative Election Survey<\/a> \u2014 a massive academic survey administered by YouGov that asks over 50,000 respondents every two years to, among other things, rate politicians\u2019 ideologies on a seven-point scale from \u201cvery liberal\u201d to \u201cvery conservative.\u201d
According to CES data, Republicans nationwide now view Trump as more conservative than they did immediately before the 2016 general election. On the other hand, Utah Republicans perceived Sen. Mitt Romney as a lot less conservative after his February 2020 vote<\/a> to convict Trump during his first impeachment trial. But that decline pales in comparison to the utter evaporation of former Rep. Liz Cheney\u2019s conservative credentials. Wyoming Republicans repeatedly rated Cheney as a solid conservative in 2016, 2018 and 2020. Yet her reputation as a stalwart conservative vanished entirely after she voted to impeach Trump in January 2021 and subsequently became one of the former president\u2019s most vocal critics in Congress as vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection \u2014 so much so, that Wyoming Republicans placed her all the way on the liberal side of the ideological spectrum in the 2022 CES.”
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“The seven Republican senators who voted to convict the former president during his second impeachment trial were all rated as much less conservative than we would otherwise expect from their Senate voting records”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Trump Is Polling Much Better Among Very Conservative Primary Voters Than In 2016<\/a><\/blockquote>