Polling shows voters don’t trust candidates who stand with Trump on national security issues
It’s a good thing Mike Bishop said he’d vote for Trump because after yesterday’s Michigan presidential primary where Donald Trump won a decisive victory over his rivals, Bishop should probably wake up to the creeping inevitability that Trump will be the Republican nominee.
Unfortunately, national Republicans’ own polling indicates that Trump would be a disaster for other Republicans on the ballot, and that having Trump at the top of the ticket would make general election voters less likely to vote for any Republican at all.
And polling released this week showed that nearly 60% of voters simply don’t trust Trump on national security issues – and wouldn’t vote for a candidate who supported Trump’s willingness to “ignore Constitutional freedoms in the name of tough talk.”
Seems like Bishop is caught between a rock and a hard place.
“The writing’s on the wall. Vulnerable Michigan Republicans like Mike Bishop can either join the Washington establishment in denouncing Trump’s reckless rhetoric and upset his Republican base support that they’ll need on Election Day, or stay silent and end up turning away just about everyone else,” said Sacha Haworth of the DCCC. “Either way, Congressman Bishop will be inseparably tied to Trump as his party’s standard bearer.”