The poll also finds that GOP primary voters are somewhat more likely to prioritize having a nominee who can beat the Democrat (78 percent “very” important) than someone who is serious about shrinking government (71 percent “very” important). Friday is the final day for candidates to pay $1,000 and file paperwork if they want to appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot next year.
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A lead in Florida is critical for the GOP because it is hard for a Republican to win the White House without the state’s 29 electoral votes. “The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security”, Katon Dawson, former chairman of the SC Republican Party, told Politico this week “As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this [terrorism] story lasts a long time, it’s going to hurt”. Rick Santorum registered just a single percentage point.
The only other candidate with double-digit support is Marco Rubio.
Jeb Bush is ahead of Clinton by six points (45-39 percent). In mid-September, Carson polled at 17 percent.
Trump’s now facing backlash for his comments surrounding his plan to track all Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.
As for the other two candidates, republicans think that Rubio has a better temperament to be president than Cruz.
“I think he is a young, intelligent man who has the flawless background of his Cuban parents that will be ideal for today”, Murphy said.
Trump also has said he would close USA mosques that have ties to extremism and would “bomb the sh-t” out of Islamic extremist positions in Syria. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
“I am on the fence on that one”, Hilman said. “The fact that he does have a little bit of political experience would probably not be a bad thing”. “The country is in crisis”, Martin said.
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The poll put Bush at sixth place, but the difference between Rubio’s second place and Bush’s sixth was within the poll’s margin of error.
