November 29, 2022 |
If Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat in the Primary Election this summer wasn’t enough of a political barometer, a new poll from UW makes it official. Donald Trump is popular in Wyoming.
Despite the former president’s vilification in the mainstream media and throughout the summer in Cheney’s one-side prosecution in the January 6 hearings, 58 percent of respondents in the recently concluded poll rate Trump’s performance as excellent or good.
The Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center’s Survey Research Center at UW released the poll Monday after conducting telephone interviews with 524 state residents selected at random. The interviews were conducted between Oct. 22 and Nov. 7, just before the General Election. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.
The political divide in Wyoming is stark. According to the survey, four out of five Republicans, 82 percent, rated Trump positively. Among Democrats, nine out of 10 Democrats, 88 percent, characterized Trump’s presidential performance as poor. Independents claimed the middle ground with 42 percent rating Trump positively.
Among Republicans in Wyoming, Trump’s promised 2024 presidential campaign also polled strongly.
Just over half of Republicans, 54 percent, said they would support the former president, while 32 percent favored another Republican candidate, and 14 percent were uncertain.
UW’s School of Politics, Public Affairs and International Studies conducts surveys of Wyoming residents in partnership with the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center and Wyoming Public Media. The questions focus on attitudes toward government, elected officials, candidates for office and contemporary policy issues.
Pictured above: Screenshot from Donald Trump’s rally in Casper in May 2022 via RSB Network.
