--- title: Poll: GOP Voters Want Candidate With Most Votes as Nominee description: More than half of Republican voters believe that the GOP candidate with the most votes should become the party’s nominee, a new poll finds canonical: https://time.com/4296975/republican-convention-delegates-poll/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-17T15:00:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:14.257Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: GOP Voters Want Candidate With Most Votes as Nominee og:description: If no one candidate gets the majority of the votes og:url: https://time.com/4296975/republican-convention-delegates-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2917936a80a75d01/69888f6d428a9e6e65cd2409/donald-trump-rnc-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Connecticut Campaign Rally og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: GOP Voters Want Candidate With Most Votes as Nominee twitter:description: If no one candidate gets the majority of the votes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2917936a80a75d01/69888f6d428a9e6e65cd2409/donald-trump-rnc-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: GOP Voters Want Candidate With Most Votes as Nominee > Sponsored content. 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While frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are expected to win, taking New York on April 19th is still vital for both candidates._  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Apr 17, 2016 3:00 PM UTC  Donald Trump pauses as he speaks during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut on April 15, 2016. Donald Trump pauses as he speaks during a campaign event in Hartford, Connecticut on April 15, 2016. Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Apr 17, 2016 3:00 PM UTC More than [half of Republican voters](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-62-say-republican-most-votes-should-be-nominee-n556846) believe that the GOP presidential candidate with the most votes should become the party’s nominee if no candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, according to a new poll. Only 33% of Republicans say the nominee should be [picked by convention delegates](http://time.com/4296921/ted-cruz-wyoming/?iid=sr-link1), a new national NBC News/Wall Street _Journal_ poll has found. The survey results, released Sunday, comes after Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump warned of a “[rough July](http://time.com/4296913/donald-trump-rnc-delegates/?iid=sr-link2)” if the Republican National Committee doesn’t “straighten out” its delegate process, which he has called “rigged.” The nominee must secure a majority — 1,237 — of delegates at the Republican convention. “I don’t want to waste millions of dollars going out to Wyoming many months before to wine and dine and to essentially pay off all these people because a lot of it’s a payoff,” Trump said Saturday on _Fox and Friends_. “You understand that, they treat ’em, they take ’em to dinner, they get ’em hotels. I mean the whole thing’s a big payoff, has nothing to do with democracy.” The poll was conducted between April 10 and April 14 among 319 Republican primary voters. 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