Mr Trump’s lead over Mr Cruz declined across the board, but most notably among very conservative voters and tea party activists. “As the field narrows, he’ll begin to dip and they will begin to rise”, said Woodard, who is also a Republican consultant but has not endorsed in the presidential race.
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Donald Trump waffled Friday on whether he supported the Iraq war and whether President George W. Bush lied to the nation to get the United States into the conflict. The GOP poll has a margin of error of 3.6 percent; while the Democratic survey has a margin of error of 4.8 percent. Eighty percent of interviews were conducted via land-line telephone and 20 percent of interviews were conducted via cell phone.
Trump once again on Thursday suggested that the USA should use more severe forms of torture to obtain information from terrorist suspects and suggested ISIS militants would laugh if they heard the debate in the US over waterboarding. Almost 43 percent of the respondents have a favorable view of the boisterous American businessman.
Messrs. Cruz and Trump are in a close contest for support among evangelical voters, a big faction of South Carolina’s GOP electorate that Mr Cruz has been wooing assiduously.
Trump is 25.2 percent of the respondents’ first choice for the primary, while 15 percent chose Cruz for first choice.
The Texas Senator is slightly ahead of Trump with both college graduates and people under the age of 45, according to the poll.
“I’ve never had a drink and I’ve never had a cigarette – those are the good things”, Trump said.
Trump says he would send letters “to China to stop ripping us off. I would be sending them to other countries to stop ripping us off. I’d send them to Mexico”. According to the CNN poll, Clinton has a large lead over Sanders there. Voters overwhelmingly think the most important characteristic is a candidate who shares their position on issues.
Scott Huffmon, a political science professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., said the 2012 primary may have been “a canary in the coal mine” anyway – Gingrich practiced the kind of anti-establishment politics that have dominated the 2016 election, and propelled Trump.
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“It was probably the first time I was asked that question”, Trump said during the televised town hall appearance on CNN. Cruz was second with just. “It is reflected in what Ted Cruz himself says, it’s reflected by phony Facebook pages that his supporters put up, it’s reflected by calls to Iowa voters saying Ben Carson dropped out”.
