If Trump hangs with Bush until the primary, expect Jeb to win the split decision.The former Florida governor is proud to endorse his record, which is one that can’t be distorted by the Democrats when it comes to the general election. Black says Trump is the leader because the field is so splintered.
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The two candidates with the highest unfavorable ratings are Paul, at 42 percent, and Trump, at 40 percent.
Carson remains in second place in all three polls, but his deficit with Trump – which was 16 points in August in the Quinnipiac poll – has shrunk to 8 points. Bush sits in fourth with 10 percent, while Florida Sen.
The real-estate mogul leads the pack in the Tar Heel State with 21.5 percent support, followed closely by the retired neurosurgeon with 20.9 percent support.
The rest of the field is bunched together as the “Breakthrough Seekers”. Rand Paul will reportedly file next week. Rival candidate Donald Trump declared her time there “a disaster”, after Fiorina boasted of HP’s growth and the “tough choices” she made as CEO.Fiorina’s delivery impressed undecided voters at the event. And Jeb Bush, another moderate that might appeal to Hispanic votes. Carson and Biden received the best integrity ratings, with 63 percent and 62 percent, respectively. In recent weeks, a Christie Super PAC has spent over $1 million in ads for the Granite State.
But poll results – especially more than four months before the initial ballot is cast – are volatile at this stage. The increase in his personal favorables, however, hasn’t translated into an increase in support. Mitt Romney received about 6 percent in 2012 against President Barack Obama, the country’s first black president.
The singular loser in the NH ad wars is Sen. Independents are less confident in Sanders’ candidacy than in Clinton’s by this metric, with 27 percent saying they have a realistic vision of Sanders making it to the White House.
Politifact rates half of the 12 claims they measured as “mostly false”, “false”, or “pants on fire”.
“They’re afraid he’ll peak too soon”, said Dennehy, formerly of Gov. Rick Perry’s 2016 campaign and now unaligned.
TRUMP: You put up the CNN poll, you didn’t put up the NBC poll and you’re the ones that are paying for the NBC poll so I don’t get it other than the NBC poll is a very good poll for Trump.
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Interestingly, the jump in immigration as a top issue has come from a drop in the number of voters naming the economy as their top concern. Right now their rivalry for Iowa and New Hampshire could not be any bigger. Cruz was at 5 percent in the latest survey.
