Subject: Exclusive poll: GOP voters want the party to stand by Trump
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Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 05:05:25 -0600
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Rank-and-file Republicans are standing by Donald Trump, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted immediately after audio was unearthed Friday that had the GOP nominee crudely bragging about groping women and trying to lure a married woman into an affair.

Overall, fewer than four-in-10 voters -- 39 percent -- think Trump should end his presidential campaign, while only slightly more voters, 45 percent, think he should drop out.

But voters are largely viewing Trump's comments through their own partisan lens: 70 percent of Democrats say Trump should end his campaign, but just 12 percent of Republicans -- and 13 percent of female Republicans -- agree.

A wave of GOP officials have abandoned Trump, but as of now, nearly three-quarters of Republican voters, 74 percent, surveyed on Saturday said party officials should continue to support the nominee. Only 13 percent think the party shouldn't back him.

Still, Hillary Clinton leads Trump in the four-way race for the White House by four points, 42 percent to 38 percent, with eight percent supporting Gary Johnson, three percent supporting Jill Stein and nine percent undecided. Clinton also leads by four in a two-way race, 45 percent to 41 percent.

Operatives in both parties say they believe it will take several days -- and Sunday night's debate at Washington University in St. Louis -- to have the video bake into the public consciousness. 

But the new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, conducted entirely on Saturday, is the first scientific survey to gauge voters' immediate reactions to Trump's comments. Morning Consult surveyed 1,549 registered voters, with 1,390 likely voters. The margin of error for all results is plus or minus 2 percentage points, and for 3 percentage points for likely voters.

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