Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina surged to second place in the GOP field following the CNN debate last week, a new poll finds.
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“I think it’s clear Fiorina’s now going to be in every debate going forward and I think now she’s truly a first-tier candidate and her polls are likely to rise”, Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak told KVUE Thursday.
There’s a new outsider in the Republican in crowd. Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson took third place with 10 percent, while Govs.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush admonished Trump, saying a president couldn’t just “insult leaders around this world”.
She spoke with startling candour at Wednesday’s debate about the death of her stepdaughter to drug addiction and the need for better treatment, revealing a painful episode that many people watching were unaware of: “My husband, Frank, and I buried a child to drug addiction”.
The CNN/ORC global poll released Sunday morning shows Fiorina with 15 percent support among Republican respondents, up from 3 percent in a similar poll earlier this month.
“I don’t think it’s a weakness at all“, Fiorina curtly replied. Marco Rubio were also in double-digits, at 14 percent and 11 percent, respectively. With 22 percent support among GOP primary voters in the state, Fiorina has a 4-point edge over Trump, who gained 18 percent of support. Rand Paul. -Trump is down 8 points since the last CNN poll on 9/10 and steady from the CNN poll one month ago on 8/17.
She has a 4-point edge over her nearest competitor, bigwig billionaire Donald Trump, who has 18 percent support.
In the previous poll, he got the support of 5%. Trump said in an interview with Rolling Stone, which he later said was meant in reference to Fiorina’s “persona”.
But he said Fiorina has criticized her political opponent’s looks in the past, citing her failed 2010 Senate campaign against Barbara Boxer in California.
The biggest problem for most Republican presidential candidates in Wednesday night’s debate wasn’t presenting a credible plan for overhauling the tax code or defeating the Islamic State. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
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Only 1 percent of those polled supported Scott Walker, who also had the smallest percentage of voters picking him as the debate victor .
