Poll: Republicans split over nominating a Trump-like candidate in 2028

Poll: Republicans split over nominating a Trump-like candidate in 2028 A Reuters-Ipsos poll sheds some light on President Donald Trump’s influence within the Republican Party after Democrats’ sweeping midterm victories last week. Fifty-two percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents want the party’s next presidential nominee to “take a different approach to governing as Trump,” while 46 percent prefer “a similar approach” to Trump. While this specific poll question was not asked before, the results suggest a shift from similar questions before the midterms. A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll last month found that 61 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents wanted GOP leaders to “follow Trump’s leadership,” while 37 percent wanted “a different direction.” The new poll also found Democrats divided over whether former vice president Kamala Harris would be a good choice to lead the party’s ticket in 2028. Some 45 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said Harris would be an “excellent” or “good” choice for the party’s nomination, while 49 percent said she would be “only fair” or a “poor” candidate. The Reuters-Ipsos poll was conducted online Nov. 6-9 among 1,705 U.S. adults via the KnowledgePanel, an online survey panel recruited through random sampling methods. The margin of error for party subgroups is roughly four to five percentage points.