Ted Cruz is hot on his heels with 24 percent – within the plus or minus 4.4 percent margin of error among Republican respondents.
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Trump up 4 points over Cruz in Quinnipiac poll
About 57 percent of respondents were registered voters, with those evenly divided among Democrats, Republicans and independents. The CNN/ORC poll was conducted by telephone December 17-21 among a random national sample of 1,018 adults.
The backdrop to all this is a mood of anxiety – both economic and personal security – pervading the GOP electorate in these early states. Forty-seven percent of independents said they would be embarrassed by Trump, but 44 percent of Republicans said they would be proud of him.
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The next drive, BYU was moving the chains, but Magnum threw yet another interception and again, it was Carter who picked him off. BYU’s defense was stout, keeping the Utes to under 100 yards of offense and effectively choking out Wilson’s passing options.
But Bush came out swinging last week during the CNN GOP debate and his campaign has consistently responded to every attack Trump has launched on their candidate, marking a new chapter in the Republican presidential race.
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A picture of Rubio is shown while that line is read, followed by a picture of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, whom Cruz famously called a liar on the Senate floor in a breach of etiquette.
Trump and Cruz have been acting as unofficial running mates so far on the Republican campaign trail.
Republican votes still seem up for grabs, however, with almost six in 10 voters who picked a candidate saying they might change their mind. The rest said they would be “neither”.
Only 23 percent of all voters would be proud to have Trump as president.
The latest Real Clear Politics average of national polls has businessman Donald Trump, Sen.
“It’s our sense that a lot of polls are under-reporting Trump’s overall support”, he said. He’s still up about two-to-one over his nearest competitor.
Marco Rubio holds steady in Iowa, at 12 percent and was up from 11 percent last month. Even worse, if Rubio does win the nomination, he’ll have broad support within the Republican Party, which is crucial in a presidential campaign.
Members of this core GOP constituency have always been torn between several favorites in the party’s crowded field. “Jeb Bush had no difference between the methods”. So Rubio appears to be gaining ground on Clinton, and that should concern Democrats.
There Rubio and Cruz engaged in furious argument over foreign policy and immigration, both making intellectually serious points but both also taking tacks that, as my Washington Examiner colleague Byron York has documented, can’t really be sustained. Eleven percent thought Christie did the best job.
Clinton has a negative 43 – 51 percent favorability rating.
But despite months of leading the Republican polls, Trump would fall short in a general election competition held today against Clinton, the poll showed. They feel these things “need to be discussed”.
Donald Trump, expected to have faded long ago, confounds the experts. A Trump victory would be a “self-inflicted tsunami for the GOP”, according to an anonymous New Hampshire Democrat.
Methodology and complete results can be found below and here.
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“While it’s unlikely he’ll win New Hampshire for instance, not a state that’s composed of the type of voters Ted Cruz goes after, you have SC which is very evangelical-heavy state”.
