Just a third of likely voters overall have settled on their choice, although 46 percent of Trump’s fans say they’re locked in.
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Among Republicans who describe themselves as independent, 34 percent support Trump, 22 percent support Cruz and 11 percent support Rubio.
With the Iowa caucuses 20 days away, the presidential contest was on the boil Tuesday, with several candidates barnstorming the heartland state and New Hampshire as they jockey for early bragging rights in the race to the November 2016 general election.
Cruz has dismissed Trump’s suggestions, saying he’s “never breathed a breath of air on this planet when I wasn’t an American citizen by virtue of being born”.
While his direct challengers, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and John Kasich, are aggressively campaigning in Iowa and/or New Hampshire, Rubio is focusing on being a national, broadly acceptable candidate to different wings of the Republican party.
“They can say whatever they want”. He hasn’t spent a lot of time campaigning in any one of the early states, preferring to simply best the other candidates with appeals to the Republican establishment.
New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is known as the ultimate arena for retail politics. Less than 1-in-10 voters have attended a Cruz (7%), Paul (5%), or Carson (5%) event.
“You know these polls go up, they go down”, Clinton said Sunday on “Face the Nation”. “His broad coalition of supporters is still small, it’s not a majority, but he does have a base and he could win the nomination”. Rubio does have better favorables (56/28) than Christie (50/36) and Kasich (43/32) do, but his unfavorable rating is up nine points since November, the biggest gain of any contender there except Ben Carson.
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In the 50-second robocall, Johnson, along with Christian talk show host Ronald Tan and white supremacist magazine American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor, urges listeners to support Trump in the Iowa caucuses, according to a press release from the PAC. Gun ownership (4% / 9%), health care (4% / 6%), social issues (3% / 6%), education (2% / 3%), and drug addiction (1% / 1%) rank much farther down the list. In the Q-poll, a slim majority of likely Republican caucus-goers say their minds are now made up, with Trump supporters being especially likely to have firmly committed. The poll was conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, NJ.
