‘No Trump, no vote’ — where will MAGA purists go in 2028?
by Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor - 10/04/25 12:00 PM ET
It can certainly be argued that hate and passion played an oversized role in motivating Americans to vote in the last three presidential elections. Out of the approximately 77 million votes President Trump got in November of 2024, tens of millions were pure “MAGA” voters. That means they were not voting for any particular policy so much as they were voting for one man: Trump.
Like it or not — like him or not — Trump truly is a “once in a century” personality. He has that elusive “it factor” that can’t be faked, imitated or bought. You either have it, or you don’t. Trump has it in spades, and he’s come into the last three elections with tens of millions of guaranteed votes in his back pocket.
But folded within that reality is a potentially huge problem for the Republicans come 2028. A large percentage of those voters either had not voted in years or had never voted at all. They came out to vote for one reason and one reason only: their passion for, and belief in, Trump. Knowing that, the very serious question for the Republican Party to contemplate is: How many of those millions of “Trump-only voters” will stay home once Trump is no longer a candidate?
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