Poll: Vast majority of Republican voters don’t care much about the leaked Trump tape

Republican elites are having a crisis of conscience over Trump, but Republican voters are all in.

Updated by Dara Lind  @DLind  dara@vox.com Oct 9, 2016, 10:50a

Republicans aren’t abandoning Donald Trump.

Republican members of Congress, sure: At least 16 Republican senators have unendorsed Trump after the leak of a 2005 tape in which Trump appears to brag about his ability to sexually assault women because he’s famous.

But Republican voters? Not necessarily.

Before the tape leaked, Morning Consult’s polling had Hillary Clinton up 41 percent to 39 percent over Trump. In the first poll conducted after the tape came out Friday afternoon, conducted by Morning Consult for Politico, Clinton’s lead’s expanded only slightly: It’s now 42 to 38.

In fact, most Republican voters don’t appear to be terribly concerned about the tape at all.

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