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Party over purity: US voters unlikely to turn backs on troubled candidates, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Few Americans will abandon their party's candidate over controversies like Democrat Graham Platner's Nazi-linked tattoo or Republican Ken Paxton's fraud indictment, as found in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Two-Thirds of party-aligned respondents say they sometimes vote for a candidate they dislike just to prevent the opposing party from winning, based on a poll completed June 8.
Only 17% of Democrats familiar with Platner and 17% of Republicans familiar with Paxton said these controversies would stop them from voting for these candidates in their states' elections.
Seventy-Six percent of respondents often vote for the lesser of two evils in US elections.