Nearly a third of Republicans believe there's a chance former President Donald Trump will be 'reinstated' to the presidency at some point this year, according to a Morning Consult/Politico Poll published Wednesday.
The poll comes two days before some of Trump's most active conspiracy theorists predicted he'd be back: August 13.
The survey, which was conducted between June 4 and 7, found 29 per cent of Republicans believed Trump could be reinstated in 2021 - with 17 per cent saying it's very likely and another 12 per cent saying it's somewhat likely.
Nearly a third of Republicans believe there's a chance former President Donald Trump will be 'reinstated' to the presidency at some point this year
New polling from Morning Consult/Politico found that nearly 30 per cent of Republicans believed there was some change former President Donald Trump could be reinstated in 2021
Slightly more GOP women believed Trump could be back than GOP men.
While 17 per cent of both Republican men and women agreed that it was very likely Trump could be reinstated, 14 per cent of Republican women thought it was somewhat likely versus 10 per cent of Republican men.
By comparison, 7 per cent of Democrats called it very likely Trump could return, while another 6 per cent called it somewhat likely.
Overall, 77 per cent of Democrats said a Trump reinstatement wasn't likely at all compared to 39 per cent of Republicans.
In a tweet, The New York Times' Maggie Haberman was first to report that Trump was telling people he believed he'd be reinstated to the White House sometime in August.
'Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information),' Haberman said in early June.
Her reporting was later confirmed by other news outlets.
It was My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell - who has been spouting election fraud conspiracy theories for months - that fingered August 13 as the date.
Sidney Powell, at one point one of Trump's election lawyers, also told an audience there was a way Trump could be reinstated - which is false.
Speaking to Vice News on Monday, Lindell, however, backtracked.
'Nobody said that, nobody said that, nobody said that, nobody said that, nobody said that, nobody said that, OK? I think this interview is over,' Lindell said.
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell previously said he believed former President Donald Trump would be 'reinstated' to the presidency on August 13
Trump's former attorney Sidney Powell has also floated that she believed the ex-president could be reinstated
There's no way for Trump to be reinstated and there was no widespread evidence of election fraud.
Biden won more than 7 million votes than Trump and won the Electoral College 306 to 232.
Biden became president on January 20, 2021.
Trump does have an avenue back to the White House - he could win the 2024 presidential race.
He has kept the door open to do that and said he'd make an announcement after the 2022 midterm elections.
Trump nearly lost his chance to become president again.
Had the U.S. Senate convicted him on impeachment charges of inciting an insurrection they could have also barred him from entering a future presidential race.
