Following last week’s terror attacks in Paris, multiple polls suggest that Trump’s popularity has risen among GOP voters, defying the conventional expectation that voters would turn to a more experienced candidate to handle such a crisis, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
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Donald Trump is still atop the polls, with the Republican frontrunner building his lead amid his response to the the terrorist attacks in Paris and the uncertainty that it has brought for the United States. He edges Ben Carson in Iowa half a percentage point, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls taken there in the last month – statistically insignificant, but evidence that a Trump victory in the nation’s first caucus can’t be ruled out – and could likely be followed by a blowout victory in New Hampshire.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is retaining a solid lead, holding a 55 percent to 32 percent advantage over Sen. Former party front-runner and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is now at just four percent and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina are at three percent each. Marco Rubio and, for many, making Carson an afterthought. That does not work against Rubio (although Cruz is ham-handedly accusing him of being a “moderate”), who has a 93 percent rating from the infamous right-wing Heritage Action, an A rating from the NRA, a 98 percent rating from the American Conservative Union, and praise from the Club for Growth.
In the Bloomberg national poll, he received 4 percent, the same as in September.
Questions about Ben Carson’s knowledge of foreign policy played out in public Tuesday with his campaign assailing an outside advisor who has helped brief the retired neurosurgeon.
Sophomore Fitz Pucci, a Democrat, said he was “not surprised” by the results because both Trump and Carson are appealing to the majority of Republicans. No other candidates gathered more than five percent of the vote.
But sources provided The Dispatch with a copy of the memo which asserted “the strategy and tactics being used by other presidential contenders to attempt to take him (Trump) down are manifestly not working, and each new poll confirms this”. In fact, 59 percent said they view Trump as “very unfavorable”.
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,016 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from November 16-19, 2015. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
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Trump is polling at 30 percent in the all-important early voting state, and enjoys a 9-percentage-point lead over rival Sen.
