“I weighed in on the comment made in the presidential campaign because I think that needed to be commented on, but I’m not going to spend every day here talking about the go-betweens of what’s happening in the presidential race”, Ryan told reporters at his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.
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Of course, the only reason for this urgent meeting is that the establishment desperately wants to defeat Trump. My disadvantage is that I’d be going up against guys who grew up with each other, who know each other intimately, and I don’t know who they are, okay? They did not signal support for an overt anti-Trump effort. This is a notion that truly frightens them for if nominated and, heaven forbid, elected President, he could take away their precious hold on power.
Rather, a bigger phenomenon may be at work in why Trump and his ideas are so popular: polarization.
Especially in a time when fear of an extremist Islamist terrorist group dominates the news, surveys like these show why some people might be particularly inclined to jump onto the Trump bandwagon.
There are a lot of surprising things about Donald Trump’s campaign. (Those Republicans must have missed that part in the bible where the pregnant Middle Eastern couple is desperately seeking refuge this time of year.) But perhaps most chilling and demonstrative is the Bloomberg Politics Poll that states roughly 2/3 of likely Republican primary voters approve of Trump’s plan, while 37% say his plan makes them more likely to vote for him.
While the positive poll numbers are now boosting The Donald, he can not rest on his laurels, since there is an ongoing plot to dethrone him as the front runner. And it was many Republicans, dismayed at where Commander Trump is leading the faithful, who were speaking out.
If Trump does bolt, 68% of his supporters would support him as an Independent, according to a new poll from USA Today/Suffolk University. What’s critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn’t or couldn’t declare, before or after the election: “This is not what our party stands for”. In short, he is seen as the most decisive candidate of either party – both by Republicans and by Americans at large.
For example, Trump was the top choice of less-educated South Carolina GOP voters.
And Ribble says he won’t support Trump even if he is his party’s nominee. “But I will not sit by and watch a theft”. Instead, that document, changed at a party convention in September, now says Republicans “hold diverse views” on “what to do with the millions of people who are currently here illegally”. Still, among that comparatively small slice of likely Republican primary voters, Trump’s support grows, even as national polls among all voters reveal he’s not close to being a victor. “Then delegates could be given up to support a consensus nominee”, CNN reported. Otherwise, it will be the end of the Republican Party, as true conservatives are sick and exhausted of being used, abused and ignored.
Conservative radio host William J. Bennett, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s education secretary, said the unrest on the right echoes the run-up to the 1976 GOP convention, when Reagan challenged President Gerald Ford.
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“I wouldn’t give him a 10 on the compassionate scale”, said poll respondent Lisa Barker, 55, of Worcester, Massachusetts, an unaffiliated voter who says she’s all in for Trump.
