Poll: 1 in 5 Republicans want Trump to drop bid

Almost 1 in 5 registered Republican voters want GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump to drop his White House bid, according to a new poll.

{mosads}Nineteen percent of Republicans in the Reuters/Ipsos poll released early Wednesday say the controversial billionaire should drop out. Seventy percent want him to continue his campaign.

Forty-four percent of all registered voters say they want Trump to leave the race.

Pollsters surveyed 396 registered Republicans and 1,162 registered voters Aug. 5–8. The margin of error is 6 percentage points among Republicans and 3 percentage points for all voters.

The survey was taken before Trump on Tuesday appeared to joke about gun owners acting against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

“Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish — the Second Amendment,” Trump said to boos from the crowd in Wilmington, N.C.

“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” he added.

“Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” 

Clinton leads Trump by 8 points, 48 to 40 percent, in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

— This report was updated at 7:46 a.m.