I'd love to see polling of Trump's approval rating among the specific subset of voters who have voted at least once for a statewide or national Republican in the past decade, rather than people who currently identify as R.https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1393583286069440513 …
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If you lead a party long enough, your internal approval rating should rise as the people you alienate leave the party. But that's not the measure of how well you grow or unify the party's potential base.
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This goes both ways, however. Trump attracted many former Democrats to vote for him AND other Repubs, and many of these now call themselves Republicans. That's why GOP party ID is roughly stable over the Trump years even as many former Repubs have left.
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Not sure the evidence of him attracting a lot of former Ds to vote down-ticket R is particularly strong, especially given the splits between the Trump base and the downticket R base in 2016 & 2020.
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