How Donald Trump Is Splitting the Republican Party in Two

The Trump supporters are more likely to hail from rural areas and to be men, while Republican Party supporters are more likely to be women and residents of the suburbs. And the differences between them — on their views of GOP leaders, immigration and race — are fascinating.

Approve of Trump’s job performance

• Trump supporters: 99 percent
• Party supporters: 84 percent

Views of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

• Trump supporters: 13 percent positive, 34 percent negative
• Party supporters: 36 percent positive, 14 percent negative

Views of House Speaker Paul Ryan

• Trump supporters: 35 percent positive, 33 percent negative
• Party supporters: 71 percent positive, 9 percent negative

Satisfied with GOP leaders

• Trump supporters: 27 percent
• Party supporters: 51 percent

Support birthright citizenship — that all children born in U.S. should be granted citizenship

• Trump supporters: 30 percent
• Party supporters: 47 percent

Keep DACA

• Trump supporters: 15 percent
• Party supporters: 32 percent

Approve of Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio

• Trump supporters: 73 percent
• Party supporters: 50 percent

Approve of Trump’s handling of race relations

• Trump supporters: 72 percent
• Party supporters: 38 percent

Approve of Trump’s handling of the environment and climate change

• Trump supporters: 65 percent
• Party supporters: 37 percent

Approve of Trump’s use of Twitter

• Trump supporters: 50 percent
• Party supporters: 31 percent

Approve of Trump’s handling of Charlottesville

• Trump supporters: 55 percent
• Party supporters: 31 percent

Eight months into Trump’s presidency, the Republican Party is fundamentally divided over these issues. And it will revealing to see what these numbers look like a year from now, as well as in 2020.

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