While many have openly disapproved of Donald Trump, most Republican voters believe top GOP leaders are hurting the party with their continuous criticism of the party's presidential candidate, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll.

The result:

Voters who believe it is bad for the party to criticize Trump: 57 percent;

Voters who believe it is good for the party to criticize Trump: 20 percent;

Voters who believe it has no impact: 16 percent.

In the previous survey in June, when the same question was asked, 62 percent said it was bad while 15 percent believed it to be good for the party.

The poll also revealed 51 percent of party leaders did not want Trump to be the president as against 66 percent recorded in the previous poll.

However, 27 percent are of the view party leaders want a Trump presidency, which is up by 7 percent compared to the previous survey. A good 22 percent are unsure of what their party leaders want.

Among all likely voters polled, only 17 percent say most top Republican leaders want Trump to be elected president. While 62 percent disagree, 21 percent remain unsure.

The survey also showed 34 percent of all voters think it is good for Republicans that its top leaders continue to criticize Trump, while 42 percent say the opposite. Seventeen percent say such criticism has no impact on the party.

Among Trump supporters, 74 percent believe it to be bad for the GOP that top leaders keep criticizing him. Only 30 percent of these voters think Republican leaders want Trump to win.

The survey, which was conducted Oct. 10-11, polled 1,000 likely voters. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points.