The NBC News/WSJ pollsters contacted 800 registered voters for the question on the Supreme Court, with a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points, and 400 Republican primary voters for the Republican field, with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
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For the Republicans, the only thing that is clear heading into the SC primary appears to be Trump’s grip on the lead following his victory in the New Hampshire primary. Evangelical and “very conservative” voters are two of the biggest voting blocks traditionally in SC.
Barry Korman and William Gallo – who only identify themselves in court papers as “duly registered voters in the state of New York” – cite Cruz’s admission that he was born in Canada as the reason for his ineligibility to become president of the United States.
Primary season moves to the South starting on Saturday, Feb. 20, when Republicans go to the polls.
The economy, 58% said Trump. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio received 18 percent, John Kasich got 10 percent, and Jeb Bush and Ben Carson 7 percent each.
Trump’s comments could further alarm some Republican leaders, who fear Trump or Texas Senator Ted Cruz will collect the delegates needed to secure the party’s nomination before a more mainstream candidate can consolidate voters’ support.
It would be the first time Trump has trailed in a major national poll since early November, according to RealClearPolitics, when Carson edged him by 1 percentage point in a McClatchy/Marist poll. Cruz says Rubio would have supported “amnesty” for illegal immigrants, which his rival denies. Trump leads by most among men, voters without a college degree, voters over 45 and voters earning more than $50k a year.
That poll shows Trump in second place nationally, two points behind Ted Cruz. Cruz says he has support from religious leaders in every SC county.
Rather than aim their anger at President Obama and the Democrats, right-wing websites, commentators such as Ann Coulter and Mark Levin and many others have instead repeated the libel that “Republicans gave Obama everything he wanted”. Although 11% are undecided, 42% have supported Sanders while 44% are supporting Clinton.
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Both candidates carry their demographic strong points from prior states into Nevada, with Clinton holding an edge among women, while Sanders tops the former secretary of state among voters under age 55, the poll said.
