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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There were two major storylines going into this week’s debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California: Bush’s showdown with Trump in hopes of reclaiming the lead and Fiorina’s ascension to the A-debate stage.
“Trump’s lead remains strong, though the emergence of both Fiorina and Ben Carson shows Republican voters are interested in candidates who don’t represent politics as usual”, James Wyatt, Morning Consult’s director of polling, said in a statement accompanying the results.
Carly Fiorina, who finished second in a CNN poll released earlier Sunday, finishes third in NBC’s poll with 11 percent support. Marco Rubio of Florida – identified as Wednesday’s victor by 14% of Republicans, putting him second behind Fiorina – is now in fourth place with 11% support, up from 3% in a previous poll.
The polls found five other candidates receiving less than one-half of 1 percentage point support: former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, South Carolina Sen.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in fifth place, at 9%. He’s followed by Sen.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee weretied for sixth, at 6 percent.
Trump said he fielded “the toughest questions” on the CNN telecast – as he did in the first debate on Fox News Channel – and that 47 percent of the questions were Trump-related.
“I think Bush is fading very fast”, Trump said, citing the former governor’s being “weak” on immigration and Bush’s support for Common Core standards.
The push includes advertising a link to the video when early state voters search for information about Bush, his brother, Trump, the debate and foreign policy.
That is according to a new national CNN/ORC poll. It’s not limited to the politicians, it’s also about the media, ‘ Rubio said, arguing that the three-hour debate did not discuss issues relevant to working-class Americans.
We’re in uncharted waters with regard to Donald Trump, but history has a habit of repeating itself, even when new variables are in play. Her emotional call to a higher moral authority when talking about Planned Parenthood was the most affecting moment of the debate.
The reviews are in: Carly Fiorina did a fantastic job at Wednesday’s debate, many observers declaring her the victor and she herself admitting on the “Today” show, “I was very satisfied”.
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That face! Trump says he’d “get along” with Putin; Fiorina says “we’ve talked way too much“. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
