Sticking with their man. Of course.
by digby
A wave of Republican officials abandoned Donald Trump on Saturday, but, at least for now, rank-and-file Republicans are standing by the party’s presidential candidate, 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 not 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.
There is obviously nothing he can say that will tear them away. But why would we think so? It’s not like he hasn’t shown himself to be a crude, disgusting boor and a violent, white, nationalist authoritarian already. They like that about him.
I think he’s staying in and he’ll probably get between 35 and 40 percent of the vote.
And, by the way, anyone who votes for him really is deplorable. Not half of them. All of them.
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