ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump likes to boast that he is the most popular Republican president among Republicans that has ever existed. ‘How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?’ he tweeted earlier this month. That may be changing, at least according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that shows 1 in 3 Republican and Republican-leaning voters would like the GOP to nominate ‘someone other’ than Trump in 2020. That’s a BIG number — and speaks to the fact that there remains, at least in the broader Republican Party, a significant pocket of people who have simply never come around on Trump. People who don’t believe that he represents the present or future of the GOP and are in search of some sort of alternative to him in 2020. Who are these people? Largely who you would expect. Among those identifying as “liberal/moderate” Republicans, 49% want Trump to be renominated, while 48% want some other candidate to be the 2020 nominee. Among “very conservative” Republicans, 85% want to see Trump renominated while just 11% prefer another candidate.”
-Chris Cillizza, “A surprising number of Republicans want Donald Trump off the ticket in 2020,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 29, 2019 1:56 am