41% of likely caucusgoers want Trump to continue as GOP leader, but more than half are open to another direction
Likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers are divided over whether former President Donald Trump should remain the party’s leader, according to the latest release from the new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of the first Republican presidential contest.
Forty-one percent of likely caucusgoers believe Trump should continue as the Republican Party’s leader, which almost matches the 42% in the poll who picked the former president as their first choice ahead of the Jan. 15 caucuses.
Yet a combined 57% of caucusgoers say either that Trump was a good president but it’s time to consider other party leaders (26%), or that the party needs a new leader with better personal behavior and a different approach (31%).
