As for the Republican Party, Trump said he has recently had “very nice” conversations with Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee.
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On the Democratic side, Clinton still is on top by a considerable margin.
Here’s what you need to know.
Donald Trump in New Hampshire on July 16. Trump’s new nationwide numbers are especially significant as the first presidential debate looms on Fox News.
The five-day rolling poll was based on a survey of 425 Republicans and has a credibility interval of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.
That next closest candidate would be Bush, who is sitting with 12 percent, but he’s not as high in another poll. John McCain’s military service earlier this month, hoping that his freewheeling presidential campaign had finally imploded.
The Reuters poll was online and ran for five days.
Trump is running better among men (24 percent) than among women (15 percent). Trump leads and enjoys a 2-to-1 edge over runnerup Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor.
Including second choices, Trump was picked by 32 per cent of those polled, compared with 22 per cent for Bush and 17 per cent for Walker.
The other top Republicans are a little more even with Clinton.
Trump scores 20% of Republican voters in the Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday, followed by Scott Walker at 13% and Jeb Bush at 10%.
Trump leads the 17-deep GOP field with 20 percent. In that poll, Christie was in ninth place with 4 percent support.
It is worth mentioning that Ohio Governor John Kasich, who only entered the race last week, also showed promising results in the poll, nearly doubling his support. She nips Walker 44-43, but trails Bush 41-42, poll results showed. Thirty-seven percent of the public view her as honest and trustworthy, while 57 percent – nearly as many as Trump – say she is not.
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“The good news for Secretary Hillary Clinton is that she is over 50% among Democrats and has a double-digit lead over Trump”, said Tim Malloy, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. He also loses to Joe Biden (who hasn’t declared a candidacy) by 12 points – 49 to 37. Sanders would beat Trump by 8 points. Biden is tied with Walker. Another female in the presidential race, Republican Carly Fiorina had 68 percent of respondents say that they haven’t heard enough about her to form an opinion about her. This is mostly the fault of the general media not giving equal coverage of the candidates. Trump was in fourth place in that survey at 11 percent, with Bush as the clear front-runner in Florida with 28 percent.
