John Kasich is struggling to retain support for his presidential bid among voters in his home state, according to a new poll. Twenty three percent of Ohio republicans go for Trump, with Ben Carson getting 18 percent and Kasich falling to 13 percent.
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“Those who were waiting for Donald Trump’s campaign to collapse will need to wait longer – at least in the three key states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Quinnipiac University released the results from its latest swing state poll, which measured support among GOP and Democratic hopefuls across Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania.
While this was an event ostensibly to introduce the candidate to young voters in an important primary state, according to reports, many students were shuffled to the raised rafters behind Kasich – within sight of the cameras but out of reach for the question-and-answer portion of the town hall.
John Kasich is pouring his efforts back into New Hampshire, the state he has continuously said is a must-win for his campaign, with a new bus tour.
Quinnipiac regularly gauges the views of voters in Ohio and other swing states on candidates and issues. Captured by Kayla Solsbak for The Collegian, her article titled “No, John Kasich, I don’t want Taylor Swift tickets” cast the Ohio governor as an old guy out of touch with young voters when he spoke at the University of Richmond. Rubio, of Florida, 41 percent to 45 percent. It shows Vice President Joe Biden thumping Trump, 48 percent to 38 percent; Vermont Sen. She narrowly loses to former Florida Gov. Bush and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, 41 percent to 43 percent in both matchups. In the poll released Wednesday, she trails Carson 40 percent to 49 percent, and Sen.
“When we get past the playoffs to the World Series, the general election face-off, Biden does better against leading Republicans than does Clinton or Sanders”.
Voters disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance by 42 to 54 percent. He trails Carson 42 percent to 46 percent.
Biden gets 42 percent to 46 percent for Carson, and beats Bush 46-37 percent.
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The Republican portion, involving 433 registered voters, and the Democratic portion, with 396, had margins of error of plus or minus 4.7 and 4.9 points respectively. Sanders gets 44 percent to Trump’s 41 percent.
