Graham is near the bottom of many Republican polls, chasing Trump as well as Cruz, who has moved up in recent surveys.
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz received a standing ovation at the RJC’s conference this April and had a private meeting with Adelson. Ohio Gov. John Kasich said his mother told him to get a Jewish friend because they’ll “stick by your side”, while former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina wished the crowd a happy Hanukkah.
The poll was conducted last week by Quinnipiac.
Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, though, was much more cautious in his remarks, eschewing any declarations of terrorism. Another intriguing finding, this one from a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute: Republicans are more pessimistic than Democrats.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that the wrangling and infighting is fierce among the second and third tier GOP candidates, with Rubio and Cruz clawing their way ahead of Carson, and Christie desperately trying to convince voters in New Hampshire to give his candidacy a second look.
Sanders does as well or better in head-to-head match-ups with Republicans, leading Trump 49%-41%, Rubio 44%-43%, Cruz 49%-39% and Carson 47%-41%.
Donald Trump’s agenda was filled with Jewish issues today.
In a seven-page inner memo, the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s executive director Ward Baker lays out a game plan for Republicans running for Senate in 2016 to journey Trump’s populist intensity while dodging the brash billionaire’s controversy-prone candidacy ought to he win the party bash’s presidential nomination. And now, Trump has taken the idea even farther, he added. Clinton is perceived by 60% of American voters as untrustworthy, compared to 36% who say she is trustworthy. Among immigration voters, 55% trust Trump on the issue.
65 percent say they might change their minds while 32 percent say their minds are made up.
The San Bernardino mass shooting by Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik has prompted speculation that the mass shooting may in fact be a terrorist attack. You can still obey the “run your own campaign” edict, while still taking Trump to task on outrageous statements where the media won’t let you off the hook. While Graham is only polling at 1 percent, he is one of the few voices in the establishment willing to to openly discuss how unsafe the primary rhetoric has been for the GOP’s chances in the general election.
There’s a sharp divide among Republican voters on these questions about deportation between those who back Trump and those who do not. Spokeswoman for the committee, Andrea Bozek, said, “It would be malpractice for the Senatorial committee not to prepare our candidates for every possible Republican and Democrat nominee and election scenario”.
Republican voters remain more enthusiastic about voting than their Democratic counterparts, but the gains in enthusiasm that had emerged through October appear to have stalled.
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The Republican Jewish Coalition isn’t representative of Jewish voters nationally.
