Closest behind Trump are Florida senator Marco Rubio at 17 percent, Texas senator Ted Cruz at 16 percent, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, also at 16 percent.
Advertisement
Carson’s 25-point lead against Clinton last month among independents has disintegrated to just a single point, while Clinton now leads Carson by 16 points among women – where they had been neck-and-neck just four weeks ago.
ABC News has learned that National Republican Senatorial Committee executive director Ward Baker wrote a secret memo to top staff in late September on how to run their campaigns if the real estate mogul is at the top of the ticket, describing the current GOP frontrunner as “a misguided missile” who is “subject to farcical fits” and advising its candidates to avoid getting tied too closely to Trump. The Iowa primary is on February 1.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik). Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Sterling, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., while Sen.
Once again, a supposed “gaffe” that was going to bring Trump’s poll numbers down to earth has done nothing of the kind. “Nobody has shown a better understanding of the threats we face in the 21st century than Marco”.
Past attempts to challenge Trump have not worked out for many of his rivals; during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, however, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie saw an opening with Trump’s claim. It would not surprise me if that happens.
Trump refused to back down, and he said hundreds of people had called or tweeted confirming his recollection. “You know he’s not even an American”. Bernie Sanders by solidifying support among women and liberals, the poll shows.
The open letter also mentions how Trump tweeted a chart of bogus black murder statistics that wildly overstated the percentage of white murder victims killed by blacks. Bush told an audience of Republican activists in Florida that he represents a different approach to governing. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, is barely idling above also-ran status with just 5 percent of the vote despite dropping an astounding $26 million on early TV ads.
Republican president candidate Sen.
Carson, who has been buoyed by the support of social conservatives, has been among the most gaffe-prone candidates this cycle.
Foreign trips are a common tool among presidential candidates to showcase their foreign policy experience and bolster their credentials, and many Republican candidates have already ventured overseas. They are anxious about the future. He has also said that the video was edited, and that his comments were taken out of context.
“Would a President Cruz build a wall along the entire southern border?”
“Why would you let them on the debate stage to waste everybody’s time?” the Republican presidential front-runner told supporters at a campaign rally Wednesday evening.
Not everybody. The Rev. Darrell C. Scott of the Ohio-based New Spiritual Revival Center, who organized the meeting, said on CNN Monday night that some of the pastors who had initially agreed “got scared” after receiving negative backlash from their own parishioners and others.
Advertisement
The trip would mark Trump’s first political travel overseas since announcing his candidacy for president. The 2014 wave election delivered Republicans control of the House and the Senate, yet progress on a conservative agenda has stalled.
