Trump had 36 percent among Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents. Sen.
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Yet again, it is Donald Trump topping the list of candidates from the Republicans, says latest poll by CNN/ORC. It looks like Carson’s loss in this poll has been Cruz’s gain.
GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz released a tough-talking campaign ad Saturday in which he promises to “kill the terrorists”.
Horse race polls have become the junk food of political journalism.
More generally, about 4 in 10 Republicans say Trump is the candidate who would be most effective at solving the country’s problems and could best handle the responsibilities of being commander-in-chief.
Conventional thinking says that, if Trump were to win the nomination, Hillary Clinton would coast to the presidency.
At the Jewish Republican Coalition, Trump also parroted stereotypes of Jews, likening himself to many in the room by presenting himself as a good negotiator and the ultimate deal maker. To some extent, it’s hard to be any more precise than that.
“I think this month, I’m so busy I’m probably not going to think about it”, said Smith, who is from Clinton. I know that’s his character and that’s OK. It’s true that Trump has a somewhat higher percentage of committed supporters than the other candidates.
The poll also reflects the dominance Trump enjoys over others in the field on issues that voters deem to be of uppermost importance to them.
Voters are quite right to take their time. With the midterm elections coming up and the GOP poised to make gains, the thousands of unaccompanied minors coming across the southern border offered a ripe opportunity to demagogue on immigration and bite back against some of Barack Obama’s executive orders granting deportation relief. It’s a sequential process, too; the outcome of one contest influences voters in the next. He’s polling at barely above 2 percent nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average for the past couple weeks. Since the caucuses are February 1, that means you can safely ignore the candidates’ rankings until after Christmas.
It’s true in both parties, but more recently, it’s been especially noteworthy in the Republican caucuses. The real estate mogul’s apparent lead may turn out to be a mirage once the actual voting begins.
Among Tennessee Democratic voters, 48 percent said they would vote for the former U.S. secretary of state if the election were held today, 28 percent said they favor U.S. Sen.
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Polls do have some value, of course. “There’s something going on with him that we don’t know about”. Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are in a second tier of candidates, considered to have a good shot at the nomination if Trump and Carson fade in the primaries. Some foreigner unfamiliar with our ways may wonder why these people running for president are not pressed to answer how, with the many wars we have already fought and the many wars they recommend fighting in the future, we will avoid the fate of every other empire and nation in history that set out to fight the entire world. Another intriguing finding, this one from a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute: Republicans are more pessimistic than Democrats.
