2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has finally started to lay out his immigration plan: Deport the undocumented population, but allow some immigrants back into the country through an expedited system to obtain legal status.
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While the real-estate developer continued to dominate the Republican field, the Democratic-leaning firm’s president said the results suggested that Trump would be an “unmitigated disaster” in a general-election match-up against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The poll indicates that Trump is garnering his greatest support yet nationally, as nearly a quarter of Republicans surveyed selected him as their choice for the party’s presidential candidate for 2016.
Scott Walker comes in second in the poll at 13 percent, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 10 percent. No other Republican candidate tops 6%, while 12% of GOP voters are undecided.
“Trump and Clinton have the worst scores among top candidates on honesty and caring”, the poll read.
Many Republicans have made claims that they will abolish the very-much-hated ObamaCare, though their plan for doing so has not been fully laid out just yet. Donald Trump triumphs on the stump so far, but do voters really want him?
Bush and Walker each run about even with Clinton and Biden in their head-to-heads, while Sanders narrowly trails the two Republicans.
The New York Post reported that a St. Pete Polls survey showed Trump leading Republicans in Florida with 26 percent of the vote. Bernie Sanders holds an 8-point lead over Trump. A Quinnipiac University poll placed Trump at 20 percent and in first place among the other Republican contenders, CNN reported.
“Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican primary field”, Dean Debnam, PPP’s president, said in a statement accompanying the poll’s findings. In that poll, Christie was in ninth place with 4 percent support. But that doesn’t mean all seventeen candidates will share one stage-the main debate featuring the top ten finishers will run later in the evening, after an opening round with candidates who failed to make the cut.
The McClatchy-Marist poll of 964 voters across the U.S. was conducted July 22-28, with a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.8 percentage points.
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Indeed, the GOP is in need of reform, say both experts and the party itself, as it is viewed as the party of older, white males and perceived, rightly or wrongly, as not friendly to single women or minorities.
