The win has many political experts saying Trump is once again seen as the frontrunner in an increasingly tight race.
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Republican front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson have been accused of peddling “fantasy” economic policies at their party’s presidential debate, as less-known rivals managed to grab the campaign limelight. In just eight weeks, the support for Carson has pretty much quadrupled.
The rest of the candidates are way behind. There is a tie between Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Mike Huckabee for sixth place with 4 percent each.
An Economist/YouGov poll ahead of the debate showed that 43 per cent of Republicans considered billionaire businessman Trump their first or second choice and 42 per cent considering neurosurgeon Carson their first or second choice. According to a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll released nearly five days ago, Carson was the top choice with 28 percent.
During an appearance in Sioux City, Iowa, on Tuesday (his second appearance in the Hawkeye State in a week), Trump seemingly was feeling the burn as he appealed for support, asking at one point, “What the hell are you doing to me?”
All of the trailing contenders need to shake up the race and will be trying to plant doubts about whether Carson and Trump, who have never held public office, are familiar with the issues.
But beyond his poll numbers, Donald Trump is taking a new focus on the endgame.
These numbers seem in line with recent polls and with the general sense that GOP primary voters are not at all interested in more of the same in Washington. Since Vice President Joe Biden announced on October 21 that he will not run for president, the 15.8 percent of Democratic likely voters who favored him will likely become Clinton supporters, Orlando said.
At the first Republican presidential debate in August, Trump told Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct”.
The Republican presidential candidates took the stage last night for their third debate.
“In all honesty I have spent more time looking at Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton than my own field because the thought of either one of them as president scares the trousers off me”, Carroll said. He talked about his faith as a Seventh-day Adventist and said, I don’t know what that is.
Carson and Trump have been running consistently neck-and-neck since the start of September – with other candidates struggling to keep pace.
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“We are on the verge of picking, perhaps, someone who can not do this job”, Kasich said.
