“People are exhausted of these incompetent politicians in Washington that can’t get anything done”, he said.
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Donald Trump launches his 2016 campaign for president at Trump Tower in New York.
He led the pack in several polls released on Sunday.
The poll by Zogby shows Trump doing especially well among Republican women, Conservatives and moderates. It’s not Trump’s platform that’s popular; it’s his boisterous, raging persona. “I mean, do you worry that there might be long-term damage to the Republican Party brand?…if people, general election voters, think Republican Party equals Trump, is that bad news for you?”
The polls are some of the first to have been conducted, at least in part, after Trump’s comments on July 18 that McCain is only considered a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War.
On MSNBC the next day, Trump endorsed a “merit system” for the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the country-something that sounds a lot like a path to some sort of legal status, if not citizenship.
A quarter of the likely GOP primary voters in New Hampshire now say they support Trump.
“Trump’s backing has climbed 6 points since a late-June poll, while support for Bush and Walker has not changed significantly”, CNN reports. Among registered Republicans, his support is 21 percent. No other candidates earned double-digit numbers.
> I want to get to Hillary Clinton in a moment, but let me stay on Trump for just one second. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton was ahead of Bernie Sanders 47 to 34 percent in New Hampshire and 55 percent to 26 percent in Iowa, according to the poll.
GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak added that Trump will soon feel the heat from other candidates, who will begin “going after him and sending out opposition research holding him accountable”.
In another positive sign for Trump’s candidacy, among those Republicans who are enthusiastic about voting next year, Trump holds a larger edge over his competition: 22% say they would back him for their party’s nomination, compared with 14% who back Bush and 12% behind Walker.
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“Chris Christie makes it in the top 10, but barely at 4 percent (and) this is a candidate who many voters in New Hampshire actually know the best”, said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
