For Americans of almost every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep: That’s according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that shows the Republican front-runner saddled with unprecedented unpopularity.
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A new Washington Post/University of Maryland poll shows Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton leading among Maryland voters, three weeks before the state’s presidential primary.
More than 60 percent say they definitely would not vote for Trump in the general election. In that respect, the Republican race has turned into a creativity contest on how to keep Trump from the finish line.
But the Republicans go to NY next week as well, where Donald Trump can claim to be something like the king of the city. Bernie Sanders are fighting for the 291 available Democratic delegates, while Trump, Texas Sen. However, the popular will backing Trump is strong.
“There’s a sizable distaste for Trump among Virginia Republican voters”, said Rachel Bitecofer, director of the Wason Center Survey Research Lab. Cruz received 36 Republican delegates to Trump’s 6 delegates. With Sanders relentlessly portraying Clinton as a pawn of Wall Street and a dupe of Republican President George W. Bush’s administration for voting to invade Iraq following the 9/11 attacks, numerous youthful liberal Democrats rallying for Sanders may find it hard to back Clinton if she ultimately wins the nomination.
But while he enjoys a steady base of support among Republicans, as AP notes, the numbers raise questions as to whether Trump can gain enough support from voters at large to win a general election.
The good news for Trump is that he appears to be crushing both of his rivals in NY, with a Monmouth poll this week showing him breaking 50 percent. Sanders told a crowd at Temple University in Philadelphia this week that he doesn’t think Clinton is “qualified” to be president. That favors Ted Cruz who, unlike Trump, has been aggressively going state by state steering his supporters into delegate positions within the Republican Party.
90% of Virginia Democratic primary voters say they will support Clinton in November, while only 67% of Republican primary voters say they will support Trump. It has a sample error of plus or minus 3.3 percent.
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The AP-Gfk poll surveyed 1,076 adults via phone and online from March 3 to April 4.
