Trumps attacks against Carson, who took the lead for the first time in a national poll since Trump jumped in the race, are also repetitive.
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The New York Times/CBS News survey of 575 Republican primary voters was conducted October 21st through 25th and has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points. He also performed well among conservative Republicans and those who identify as Tea partiers.
Trump, who usually touts his own supremacy in the polls, was at a loss to explain Carson’s rise. As for men, he is neck in neck with Trump.
No other Republicans are in double digits in the new poll. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida received 8 per cent while former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida and Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, are each the choice of 7 per cent of Republican primary voters.
Carson and Trump have been running consistently neck-and-neck since the start of September – with other candidates struggling to keep pace.
The real estate mogul and reality TV celebrity held forth on his approach to foreign policy Monday morning in Atkinson, New Hampshire, which holds the first primary to kick off the presidential contest.
Two polls last week gave Carson his first lead ever in Iowa.
As polls show Ben Carson catching – and even surpassing – Donald Trump, the brash businessman’s attacks against his closest challenger have intensified. And I think, you know, abolishing Medicare.
The former star of “The Apprentice” went on to say that he would be traveling to Iowa later on Tuesday. “I think we are doing much better, actually”.
“We seem to have hit a chord… but a few of these polls coming out, I don’t quite get it”, he added, before predicting that Carson would face a new round of criticism as the front-runner.
“Just when you thought the Republican establishment could breathe a sigh of relief, it’s not an establishment Republican that’s taken over, but rather another anti-establishment candidate”, said Fernand Amandi of the political consulting and polling firm Bendixen and Amandi.
“I want to ask about once and for all your relationship with polls”.
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“I mean, I’ve built one of the great companies, but it’s always been, you know, you can’t do this, you can’t do that”.
