--- title: Donald Trump Support: Republicans Who Renounced the Nominee description: Since the leak of Donald Trump's vulgar comments about women, 20 percent of Republican lawmakers have renounced their party's nominee. canonical: https://time.com/4528034/donald-trump-support/ author: David Johnson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-12T18:51:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T17:52:03.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: The Trump Defection Count: Who's In, Who's Out og:description: More than a third of female Republican lawmakers have renounced the nominee og:url: https://time.com/4528034/donald-trump-support/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Trump Defection Count: Who's In, Who's Out twitter:description: More than a third of female Republican lawmakers have renounced the nominee twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Which Republicans Have Stopped Supporting Donald Trump? by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) and [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:52 PM UTCPublished: Oct 12, 2016 6:51 PM UTC by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) and [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:52 PM UTCPublished: Oct 12, 2016 6:51 PM UTC Since the leak of an 11-year-old tape of [Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about women](http://time.com/4524010/donald-trumps-lewd-comments-leave-the-gop-scrambling/), nearly 20% of the 331 current Republican governors, Senators and House members have renounced their party’s nominee, according to a TIME analysis of each official’s statements. Among women lawmakers, that figure is nearly double. The tape, which the Washington _Post_ first released on Oct. 7, sent [Republicans scrambling to distance themselves](http://time.com/4524010/donald-trumps-lewd-comments-leave-the-gop-scrambling/) from their nominee for President. Virtually every prominent Republican and candidate issued statements condemning Trump’s remarks in the strongest terms they could muster. But while some went as far as to [call on Trump to drop out of the race](http://time.com/4523942/donald-trump-women-video-gop-rejection/), or at least rescinded their personal support, many others said they accepted [Trump’s apology](http://time.com/4524406/presidential-debate-donald-trump-locker-room-talk-video/) and would continue to support him, albeit with a certain amount of nose-holding. The following chart shows where each of those individuals stands on Trump’s candidacy. Select the options below “Filter by” to see how support changes among different groups of Republican officeholders. Curiously, there is no significant distinction between members who are up for re-election in November and those who are not. While the defectors come from across the country, several observers have noted that [many Utah lawmakers](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/11/red-state-utah-pink/91883904/?utm%5Fsource=feedblitz&utm%5Fmedium=FeedBlitzRss&utm%5Fcampaign=usatoday-newstopstories) were particularly quick to jump ship. (The number of female lawmakers who renounced Trump was originally 40 percent, but sunk to 35 percent when Senators [Deb Fischer](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/gop-reaction-donald-trump.html) and [Shelley Moore Capito](http://www.wvgazettemail.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?avis=CH&date=20161012&category=GZ0117&lopenr=161019860&Ref=AR) reversed course and said they will support the entire Republican ticket.) Of course, there are many shades of support for Trump — the site FiveThirtyEight [identified seven discrete flavors back in July](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-7-levels-of-trump-support-in-congress/). In most cases, an official’s stance was clear, but a few were ambiguous. As a rule, we considered anyone who initially supported Trump and didn’t explicitly renounce that support as still backing the nominee, even if he or she censured the nominee’s comments in the harshest terms possible. We also did not draw a distinction between those lawmakers who have endorsed Trump and those who have threaded the needle by saying they will vote for him without officially endorsing. We will continue to update this list as members defect (or [undefect](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/10/12/sen-deb-fischer-changes-tune-on-donald-trump/)). Please send tips or updates to [chris.wilson@time.com](mailto:chris.wilson@time.com) and [david.johnson@time.com](mailto:david.johnson@time.com). _Sources:_ In addition to many local newspapers and television stations, we gratefully relied on the thorough reporting of the [_Washington Examiner_](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/heres-where-every-republican-in-congress-stands-on-trump/article/2592510), [_Roll Call_](http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/which-republican-lawmakers-have-dumped-trump-so-far-video-women-comments) and [_Politico_](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-gop-endorsements-222894) in compiling this list. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4528034/donald-trump-support/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4528034/donald-trump-support/"},"headline":"Which Republicans Have Stopped Supporting Donald Trump?","datePublished":"2016-10-12T18:51:02.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T17:52:03.000Z","description":"More than a third of female Republican lawmakers have renounced the nominee","url":"https://time.com/4528034/donald-trump-support/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Johnson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4528034/donald-trump-support/","name":"Which Republicans Have Stopped Supporting Donald Trump?"}}]}] ```