Most Americans don’t want Trump back in office survey finds

Most Americans say they don’t want to see Donald Trump return to the White House in 2024 according to a new poll that revealed the country’s shifting attitudes toward its most polarizing president. 

According to the survey from Marist Polls taken before Trump's indictment, more than six in ten Americans say they don't want Trump to be their president again with only 38% of the 1300 plus people polled saying that they wanted the former president to serve another four-year term. 

The results of the survey were broken down along clearly partisan lines. But they did also revealed a number of surprising facts about how the attitude of the country has changed in regard to Donald Trump. 

Roughly 89% of Democrats did not want Trump returned to the presidency while 61% of independents and 21% of Republicans also said they didn’t want to see the former president back in the Oval Office. 

Marist Polls specifically mentioned that 41% of white Evangelical Christians were against having Trump as their president for a second term in office. 

Trump’s popularity has also taken a hit since the last time a similar poll was conducted with the former president's favorability rating dropping from 42% to just 39%, More than 51% of respondents polled said they had an unfavorable view of the former president.

Trump’s waning favorability and loss of support could be a sign that his campaign antics and the constant barrage of hateful speech could be taking its toll on American voters. 

The former president has been fledgling on the campaign trail in a sad attempt to pick up momentum while striking out at the prosecutors poised to indict him on a host of alleged crimes in various states and at various levels of government. 

“Donald Trump’s demagogic attacks on prosecutors investigating potential criminal charges against him are aimed at riling up his base and could spark violence,” wrote The Guardian's Peter Stone. 

“At campaign rallies, speeches and on social media, Trump has lambasted state and federal prosecutors as ‘thugs’ and claimed that two of them – who are Black – are ‘racist’, language designed to inflame racial tension,” Stone added. 

Trump's behavior on the campaign trail may not be as helpful as he believes since Marist Polls revealed that 56% of people said the investigations into the former president were fair and 46% responded that he had done something illegal. 

A further 29% of people said the former president’s actions were unethical rather than illegal, which would put the total percentage of people who viewed Trump’s actions negatively at 75%.

“Perceptions align closely with partisanship with 87% of Democrats and 51% of independents reporting the investigations are above board,” the survey’s authors wrote. 

“Nearly one in five Republicans (18%) agree. Most Republicans (80%), though, think the investigations are a witch hunt,” the study’s authors added. 

Despite the negative feedback, Trump still appears to be the conservative most likely to get the Republican nomination. A new poll from Fox News showed the former president leading over his main unofficial rival Ron DeSantis by a substantial margin—though it is unclear how the former president's indictment in New York will affect the future of his campaign. 

“Trump was the top pick for 54 percent of respondents, who were asked to choose from a list of potential 2024 Republican presidential nominees,” wrote Fox News correspondent Kelly Garrity. 

DeSantis came in second place with 24% of the vote and Garrity noted that it was “a slight drop in support for the Florida governor, who nabbed 28 percent to Trump’s 43 percent in a Fox poll conducted late last month.”

Unfortunately, Trump's indictment only seems to have made Republicans like him more with Politico noting that the move gave the former president a boost in GOP primary race.