Majority of GOP wants Trump in race even after indictment: Poll

Misty Severi

June 16, 10:52 PM June 16, 10:52 PM

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Republicans continue to stand behind former President Donald Trump despite his recent indictment by a Florida grand jury, according to a poll released on Friday.

Although the majority of voters overall (56%) believe Trump should drop out of the 2024 presidential race because of the indictment, 64% of Republican and Republican-leaning respondents said they would continue to support Trump if he remains in the race, according to a national poll conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

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“As former President Trump deals with his latest legal woes, Republicans are mostly standing with him, while Democrats are calling for him to exit the 2024 campaign,” Marist Director Lee Miringoff said in a statement.

“Time will tell if this pattern holds, but for now, Republicans are grounded on where they stand on Trump regardless of these unfolding events,” he added.

More than three-quarters of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 76%, have a favorable opinion of Trump, up from 68% in February, the poll said.

The poll questioned 1,327 adults from June 12-14. Of the adults polled, 1,212 were registered voters. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points overall and 3.6% for registered voters. Republicans and Republican-leaning voters make up 467 of the respondents.

Nearly three-quarters of the poll takers, 73%, believe Trump did something wrong, but only half of those respondents believe he committed a crime. The other 23% claim he did something unethical but not illegal. Half of the Republicans taking the survey believe that he did nothing wrong, up from 45% in March.

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Trump was indicted by a Florida grand jury last week for allegedly mishandling classified documents after he left the Oval Office. He faces 37 charges related to the classified document scandal, including 31 counts for the willful retention of national defense information, which violates the Espionage Act.

He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.