That also means there’s no need to worry too much about a Trump presidency – yet.
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Lindsey Graham, a long-time critic of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, has broadened his attack to include Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio doesn’t either.
“If a guy – capable as he is as a politician – became president, (and) has no clue what he’s doing, that’s a risky thing”, said former Florida governor Jeb Bush during an interview on the public affairs television program Iowa Press.
Quinnipiac conducted its poll last week.
Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines. Already, numerous Republican candidates sense this shift.
Carson is now tied for third place with Sen.
Several other recent polls have shown Trump reclaiming a solid lead atop the GOP field after several weeks of near parity with Carson. Against Carson, Clinton wins, 46 percent to 43 percent. And now, Trump has taken the idea even farther, he added. What’s more, the bombastic Trump, who recently mocked a respected New York Times reporter who has a congenital physical disability, tops the list when Republican voters are asked to say whom they “definitely” will not support. Among immigration voters, 55% trust Trump on the issue. According to the poll, 59% say Trump is not honest or trustworthy, versus 28% who say he is.
Officials in San Bernardino, California, say that there are at least 14 people dead and another 14 injured in a shooting at a social services facility where county employees were gathered Wednesday morning. Their big fear is that the name “Trump” on the top of the ticket will cause GOP voters to defect or sit at home and that Republicans in other races, from the Senate on down, will lose as a result.
Other parts of the memo praised Trump’s style and advised candidates to adopt some aspects of it, including shedding political correctness, vowing to fundamentally shake up Washington, and embracing populist notes on issues like China and trade.
There’s a sharp divide among Republican voters on these questions about deportation between those who back Trump and those who do not.
Rubio has positioned himself as one of the Republicans’ most hawkish candidates on defense and national security, and has sharply criticized Cruz’s support for legislation ending the mass collection of telephone records by the national Security Agency, according to the Post. He said that everyone was concerned that the massacre was yet another manifestation of radical Islamic terrorism in the U.S.
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“It would be malpractice for the senatorial committee not to prepare our candidates for every possible Republican and Democrat nominee and election scenario”, NRSC spokeswoman Andrea Bozek said in a statement. “If the nominee of the Republican party will not allow for an exception for rape and incest, they will not win”, he said.
