Moreover, Trump has also called for other counter-terrorism programs in recent weeks, such as the possible surveillance of mosques in the United States, and planned attacks that would hone in on the families of suspected terrorists. I predict you will see Ted Cruz rise to second place before the end of the year. Marco Rubio is in New Hampshire…
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And that’s bad news for the Republican Party, because Trump is wholly unelectable. Ahead of Senator Ted Cruz by a comfortable 19 percent and striding past Ben Carson by a whopping 30 percent, America’s “Teflon Don” now has a political ring to it.
Later, Trump was actually booed by the crowd when he refused to clarify his position on Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, which is Israel’s policy and another common talking point among Republicans. Rubio is also up slightly, gaining 4 points – an increase within the poll’s margin of sampling error – since the last CNN/ORC poll. Many Republicans offered prayers for the victims. Q-Poll has support for Gov. Kasich at an embarrassing two percent, polling so low that others with similar numbers-Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana-have already dropped out.
In the RealClearPolitics.com average of Iowa GOP polls, Trump leads Carson 26.7 percent to 20 percent, followed closely by Cruz at 18.3 percent. Sen. A 2012 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 77 percent of Jewish Republican voters think abortion should be legal in “all or most cases”.
And if there’s one thing Republican candidates shouldn’t do, according to Baker, it’s attacking Trump should he become the Republican nominee.
Looking at those Republicans who consider each issue to be “extremely important” to their vote, Trump’s standing on each issue is even stronger.
“I believe that it is not about turning out evangelical Christians”, Graham said.
The poll was conducted before the shootings in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, carried out by a man reported to have been radicalized and his wife.
Trump’s success has surprised the party establishment who had expected him to quickly fizzle and fear he would alienate voters in a general election.
“If the nominee of the Republican Party will not allow for an exception for rape and incest, they will not win”, Graham said. The GOP (Grand Old Party as the Republican Party is referred to), 11 months from the election, has to be thinking, ‘This could be the guy’. We then asked about a ban specifically on assault weapons for Muslims, and 56% of Trump voters support that to only 22% who are opposed.
The polls matches up well with other polls that show Trump regaining momentum and taking hold of a dominant lead nationally among the Republicans. Trump went on to say that he was perfectly happy about his daughter’s conversion, though he wasn’t insane about some of her faith’s new rules.
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All American voters said 63 – 32 percent, including 69 – 27 percent among independent voters, that Clinton would have a good chance of beating the Republican nominee in a head-to- head matchup.
