Seventy-one percent of single Democratic Party voters said they are very unlikely to even consider dating a person who voted for Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, a new survey finds.
The Pew Research Center study revealed the country's widening partisan divide has bled into Americans' dating habits, with 45 percent of Democrats or left-leaning voters outright declaring they "definitely would not" pursue a relationship with a Trump voter. That share is more than double the 19 percent of Republicans or right-leaning respondents who said they "definitely would not" date someone who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. And based purely on party lines, 43 percent of Democrats said they would not likely date anyone who is a Republican, compared to just 24 percent of Republicans who said the same of their liberal counterparts.
The multi-layered Pew survey of nearly 5,000 "single-and-looking" Americans showed that members of both parties were more likely to romantically write-off a person who voted for Trump or Clinton in 2016 rather than someone who simply identified as a member of the opposite party. Only 4 percent of Democrat-leaning voters admitted they had previously dated a Trump voter, and only 4 percent of Republican-leaning voters conceded the same about dating a Clinton voter.
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