Poll: Majority Of Republicans Oppose The Idea Of A Contested Convention

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump stands on the stage before the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charl... Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump stands on the stage before the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) MORE LESS
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A majority of Republicans oppose the idea of a contested GOP convention, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Tuesday.

Of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed, 52 percent said GOP frontrunner Donald Trump should be the party’s nominee if he has the most delegates heading into the convention in July, but doesn’t win on the first ballot. Forty percent said the GOP should nominate someone else under those circumstances.

The poll’s results come after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) triumphed in the Wisconsin Republican primary on Tuesday, where the delegates were winner-takes-all.

If the Republican Party does nominate someone else, 65 percent of the same group surveyed said that nominee should be a candidate who ran in this year’s election race, while 29 percent said it’s acceptable for the GOP to nominate someone who didn’t run.

The poll surveyed 444 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents by phone from March 29- 31. The margin of error was 4.7 percentage points.

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  1. They also oppose teaching evolution. Yet evolution is what they teach us all.

  2. Avatar for nineo nineo says:

    The more bitter the convention, and the more contested the results, the better off America will be. If ever a political party deserved death by self-mutilation, its this Republican party.

  3. There is no way this ends well for them. Please proceed!

  4. Screwed if they do and screwed if they don’t.
    Great job, Rinses!!!

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