ANALYSIS: TRUE. “Never Trump exists within the media ecosystem, but has no detectable voting base.”
Plus: “According to Gallup polling, 89% of Republicans approve of Trump’s job performance. And this cannot be chalked up to a mass exodus from the party that left only core Trumpists. In May, Gallup found that 30% of the electorate identified as Republican, which is higher than it was when Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015 (25%) and around where it was when he effectively clinched the nomination in early May 2016 (31%). There have likely been some people who left the party and some people who now identify as Republican who did not before, but the bottom line is that Brooks is not broadly representative of the American electorate.”