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4:10Now PlayingA recent focus group conducted for Axios shows that swing voters who lean Republican are not happy AT ALL with the party's decision to oust Liz Cheney. In fact, all but one member of the focus group said that they won't vote Republican if the Party continues to bow down to Trump. Farron Cousins explains what this means for the future of the Party, if there is a future for them at all.
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Recently Axios conducted a focus group with 14 swing voters here in the United States of these 14 swing voters. 19 out of the 14 said that they were inclined to vote for a Republican in the next election. So you have a Republican leaning focus group of swing voters here in the United States.
But
Conditions for supporting a Republican are what should make the party very nervous because all but one of them, 13 out of the 14 on that focus group said that they would not vote Republican. If it meant voting for a Republican that was still following Donald Trump all but one said that that was disqualifying. So if they go to the polls in the midterms and you got a Democrat and a Republican on that ballot, and the Republican is a hardcore, I love Trump and nothing else Republican. Guess what? They're voting Democrat right now. This is a focus group of only 14 individuals. Oh, they also, by the way, said that unanimously said that it was a huge mistake for Kevin McCarthy to allow Liz Cheney to be ousted from her leadership position. So, so that's a big deal, right? You've got swing voters, the people who, any given election, they don't know what they're going to do.
Am I a Democrat, a Myra Republican who has got my best interests at heart. And they're literally telling us right now, I'm not doing that with the Republican party. I'm not going along with this Trump crap that they're still trying to shove down our throats. And if they try to do that, I'm going with the other guys. I don't like what they did to Liz Cheney. And I may end up punishing them for that too. Now again, 14 people is not a statistically significant sample. It is just a focus group. Just seeing what these average everyday people out there think it is not a poll. It is not really even considered scientifically significant, but I do believe that this is significant.
Why? Because polling data matches this even
More among Republicans, more Republican support the Republican party than support Donald Trump Have 50 some odd, I think 52% said they support the Republican party. 44% said they support Trump over the Republican party.
So it's a little more than that. Half a slim
Majority, but it's a majority. Donald Trump is losing support in every single poll that comes out each consecutive month. He is not getting more popular. He is getting less popular. He lost ground for the Republican party in every single special election that was held during his four years in office lost support doesn't mean he lost the races for them in every instance, in some of them he, yes,
But law support
For Republicans and every one of these special elections lost them. The house in 2018, lost in the Senate in 2020, along with him losing the white house,
He is a political loser. He's brash, he's unlikable. He
Didn't do crap during the pandemic. And people are still very angry about that, especially after seeing how well Biden has done with it. So yeah, may just be a focus group with 14 people. But these are 14 people that the Republican party needs to think about listening
To before they go ahead
And trash their shot at the 2022 midterms. But again, I hope they do throw it away. I hope they do follow Trump.
They created him and they deserve to go down with him.
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