'You’d never get him out of office': Conservative voters balking at re-electing Trump

Despite Donald Trump's commanding lead in the polls, not all Republican and conservative voters are willing to send the ex-president back to the Oval Office if he ends up winning the battle for the 2024 Republican party nomination.

According to a report from the Guardian, doubts about giving the four-time indicted former president another crack at becoming the commander-in-chief have increased due to his recent comments about wanting to be a "dictator" for one day after being re-elected.

Although many observers have suggested Trump is using that kind of language to get a rise out of his detractors, some Republicans are a bit wary that he means it and are looking elsewhere at either one of Trump's GOP rivals for the nomination or contemplating holding their noses and voting for President Joe Biden.

In interviews with conservative voters in the key state of Pennsylvania, the Guardian's Chris Stein found more than a handful of former Trump voters who expressed growing alarm at the former president's increasingly authoritarian rhetoric.

While 67-year-old Roger Williams defended the Trump "dictator" comments by saying, "For one day – don’t get it twisted. He wanted to put his foot down and dictate some things that needed to get done. That’s what he meant,” others weren't so sure.

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Conservative Bob Capparell, 74, claimed he'd prefer former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or ex-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and worried that Trump might make good on boast about being a dictator by telling the Guardian's Stein, "He would be, absolutely. You’d never get him out of office, never.”

Bob Buchman, 72, a Trump voter in 2016 because he “believed his baloney,” turned to Biden in 2020 and may vote that way again.

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“I’d take 10 Joe Bidens before I’d take one Donald Trump. He just lies and lies and lies. I’m afraid if he gets in now, he’ll just have four years of getting even," he predicted.

You can read the full Guardian report here.