A chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they wouldn't vote for Trump as the GOP nominee

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Even for some of those Republicans, voting for Trump was already a tough sell.
41% : In the first three head-to-head contests, anywhere from 17% to 31% of the voters who said they wouldn't support Trump in the general election identified as Democrats, and between 14% and 27% identified as independents.
41% : Still, about 1 in 10 early contest voters who said they supported Trump in the 2020 general election said they wouldn't be doing so this year.
39% : Born rare': Quad-Citians born on Leap Day talk about life with the least likely birthday Student-run restaurant, The Lemonade Stand, to open in Davenport's Redstone Building Davenport Central choir students to join Foreigner on stage at concert Calamus-Wheatland seniors set the bar high in girls basketball Rock Island investigating Saturday barn fire as arsonThis unwillingness to contemplate a presidential vote for Trump isn't confined to voters in the earliest states.
38% : But I don't know if I could vote for Trump.
38% : "I won't vote for Trump, I'll just say that.
36% : She added, "I'm not sure I can vote for Biden."If Trump becomes the nominee, he will likely need to win over some of the moderates who supported Biden in 2020 if he wants to return to the White House.
31% : Many of the voters who said they wouldn't vote for Trump as the nominee aren't Republicans at all.
25% : They attended a rally for supporters of Trump's last major rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, last week in Centennial, Colorado, to encourage her to keep running against Trump.
24% : An analysis of the data shows that many of those voters were unlikely to vote for Trump, some even before this year, but it still points to potential problems for the former president as he looks to consolidate the nomination and pivot toward an expected rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden.
23% : A small but substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party's presidential nominee that they would not vote for him in November's general election, according to AP VoteCast.
13% : "We don't know that Trump will run into more legal problems and be disqualified, and I'd rather not see Biden in there for another four years," said Bill Baltzell, 60.
13% : If it's between Biden and Trump, Lee Baltzell, 58, said she would consider writing in an alternative.

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