About one in eight Americans who voted for US President Donald Trump last year said they would not do so again after witnessing Trump’s turbulent first six months in the White House, according to a poll.
According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, 12 percent of respondents who had voted for Trump on Election Day in November said they would not vote for him “if the 2016 presidential election were held today.”
The poll, which surveyed voters who had told Reuters/Ipsos on Election Day how they had cast their ballots, highlights the growing disillusionment among Trump supporters.
While most of the people who voted for Trump said they would vote for him again, the erosion of support within his base of older, dissatisfied, mostly white voters poses a potential challenge for the president.
Trump, who won the election with a slim margin, is losing the support he needs to push his agenda through a divided Congress and potentially win a second…