Sixty percent of voters across both parties said Clinton was not honest and 59 percent said the same of Trump. Rubio is now doing 10 points better, and Cruz 9 points better, than in August.
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Carson is now tied for third place with Sen.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz says Democrats are making up fabrications about Republicans wanting to ban contraceptives.
The poll found that 27 percent of Republican voters support Trump, up from 24 percent in a poll conducted last month. Ted Cruz (Tex.), each taking 16 percent support.
Carson – the soft-spoken physician who had surprisingly topped surveys in recent months but whose campaign has since been hurt by questions about his accounts of a violent childhood – dropped 7 percentage points in the Quinnipiac University poll.
Can the GOP really sink Donald Trump? The GOP, 11 months from the election, has to be thinking, ‘This could be the guy, ‘ ” Mr. Malloy said. Bush said. He said “maybe we should be a little less gender-specific about this” and that the one important element of choosing a vice presidential candidate is whether he or she is qualified to be president.
“It would be an utter, complete and total disaster”, Sen.
Like mentioned above, Ben Carson doesn’t seem prepared to deal with foreign policy and national security issues, even though his campaign tried to proved the candidate’s understanding of the topic. “If you’re a xenophobic, race-baiting, religious bigot, you’re going to have a hard time being president of the United States, and you’re going to do irreparable damage to the party”.
With just 60 days until the Iowa caucuses and then the New Hampshire primary, the sparring reflects an urgent push among the second- and third-tier GOP candidates to become the main alternative to resilient front-runner Donald Trump. Just six percent said they could never support Cruz – a number only matched by Rubio at five percent.
In the race for the Democratic nomination, frontrunner Hillary Clinton widened her lead over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Still dogged by the “Bridgegate” scandal and controversy over his handling of New Jersey’s budget and pension program, Christie has camped out in the Granite State and is presenting himself as a seasoned chief executive and former prosecutor who has far more experience in governance than Rubio and Cruz, the two 44-year old Senate freshmen.
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Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,453 registered voters nationwide from November 23 – 30 with a margin of error plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. However, Trump remains the more divisive candidate: when respondents were asked if there were any candidates they definitely would not vote for, 26% of respondents selected Trump but only 5% ruled out Rubio.
