Empower Project research director Neil Stenhouse points me to a recent Des Moines Register/NBC News poll of “likely Republican caucusgoers” and highlights this disturbing finding:
While I shouldn’t be surprised by these results at this point—Iowa Caucus participants represent the extreme wing of their party and those who are still Trump supporters at this point were never moderates to begin with—it’s nonetheless disturbing.
Mass deportations of immigrants is wildly popular, of course. But barely more so than rooting out “radical left thugs.”
Indeed, the only outrageous comments of Trump that seem to give any pause are “terminating parts of the Constitution”—which is still a 50-50 proposition—and “lock[ing] up his political opponents”—which still enjoys nearly two-thirds support.
