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Do two-thirds of Republicans want someone other than Donald Trump to be the 2024 GOP presidential nominee?

By Tom Kertscher
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Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said two-thirds of Republicans want someone other than former President Donald Trump as the 2024 GOP presidential nominee.

Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, made the statement during two Sept. 26, 2023, interviews in Madison.

Ryan spokesperson Kevin Seifert told Wisconsin Watch that Ryan meant to say that two-thirds of Americans don’t support Trump.

Seifert cited an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll of U.S. adults released Aug. 15.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents said either they definitely would not support Trump (53%) or probably not support him (11%).

But among Republicans, nearly two-thirds (63%) said they want Trump to run again and 74% said they would support him.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Sept. 13 found similar results.

A CNN poll released Sept. 7 found that two-thirds of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters said the party should nominate someone other than President Joe Biden.

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YouTube Paul Ryan on the 2024 presidential election
WMTV Former Speaker Paul Ryan says Republicans will lose if Donald Trump is nominee
AP News Trump enjoys strong support among Republicans. The general election could be a different story
Quinnipiac University https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3878
DocumentCloud CNN poll
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