Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who turned in a strong performance at Wednesday night’s debate, is now seen as the likely nominee by 41% of Republican voters, up from 16% in early May when she joined the race.
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Former tech executive Carly Fiorina has rocketed into second place in the Republican presidential field on the heels of another strong debate. But Carly Fiorina not just succeeded in managing to make a mark on the occasion, she went on to actually win the debate.
Candidates discussed Planned Parenthood, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and immigration reform during the three hour debate, but certain students on campus feel that other policies should have made the debate. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson edged higher and is now in second place, with 14 percent support.
Mr Trump’s stubborn popularity with voters has unsettled the Republican party establishment, which is shifting its support between Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and the current senator of Florida, Marco Rubio.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee weretied for sixth, at 6 percent. An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll found that almost one-third of Republicans believed Fiorina performed best in the Wednesday night debate.
Let’s take Trump first, since the billionaire New York real estate developer entered the debate at the top of the GOP opinion polls. The real estate mogul enjoys 24 percent support among Republicans, which is an 8-point drop from earlier this month, when a similar poll had him at 32 percent.
She was abruptly cut off by host Savannah Guthrie, who asked whether those blots on her record were a weakness. Mr Trump awkwardly rejoined that Ms Fiorina had a “beautiful face and she’s a attractive woman”.
The CNN/ORC poll of Republican registered voters shows Sen.
Trump, who says he’ll rely on “the finest team that anybody has put together” to get him up to speed on foreign affairs, said he’d “get along” with Putin. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
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Trump, meanwhile, continued to field questions about why he did not denounce a New Hampshire who said Muslims are “a problem” in the United States, accused President Obama of being one, and claimed there are Muslim terrorist camps in the United States.
