This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic produced and presented by the DSR network. I'm your host, Greg Sergeant.

This week a group of prominent never Trump Republicans and

Conservatives announced that they will spend 50 million dollars to defeat

Donald Trump this fall. The group which is called Republican voters Trump, is hoping to appeal to voters who backed him in 2020,

but might be persuaded not to in 2024 due to a variety of reasons,

such as his participation in the January 6th insurrection.

But how big a pool of voters is this really?

Is it really possible to flip enough of them to make a real difference in the core battleground states?

What really motivates these voters and what's the best way to reach them?

To get answers, we invited on Sarah Longwell, who runs Republican voters against Trump

and regularly conducts focus groups to figure out what makes them tick.

Welcome, Sarah.

Hey, thanks for having me.

Democratic strategists I talk to look at your effort and their first question is how big is the slice of voters

By this I mean what percentages of 20-20 Trump voters are genuinely getable in

Battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona,

Georgia, Nevada.

Yeah, well, so I look at it slightly differently to that because to come up with that actual

number is difficult, but here's what I know about

the Republican Party there is a 70 30 split that you see come up over and over again

so if you ask people do you think the election was stolen about 70% of Republicans say yes

about 30% say no you ask and many polls have done this recently if Donald Trump is

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