With 17 candidates duking it out for the Republican presidential nomination, it is surprising that the media spotlight is being dominated by one candidate: Donald Trump.
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In his latest interview, Republican presidential contender Donald Trump delivered specific details on policies regarding the nation’s health care system, immigration system and Hillary Clinton. Fox News’ prime time debate will feature only the top 10 polling Republican candidates.
“I’m proud to be in first place by such a wide margin in another national poll”, Trump told news agency Reuters.
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 started at 15 percent and ended up at 24.9 percent, Yahoo!
The survey result gave Trump a double-digit advantage over Bush, who was trailing behind with 12 percent.
Fifty-eight percent of voters consider Trump dishonest and untrustworthy, while 57 percent think the same of Clinton, according to the poll. Marco Rubio, Sen. Rand Paul, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Ben Carson.
“It is a huge jump for Trump, who announced his candidacy for November 2016 election six weeks ago-and this despite the criticism political rivals leveled at him for his remaks this month belittling the military service of Senator John McCain“, Reuters said in its report.
The Quinnipiac survey comes on the heels of separate CNN/ORC worldwide and USA Today/Suffolk University polls showing Trump in the lead. Other large polls recently conducted by CNN, Washington Post/ABC News and Fox News have all placed Donald Trump at the top of the Republican field.
Exit polls in 1992 showed 38 percent of those who voted for Perot picked George H.W. Bush as the second choice, while the same percentage would have chosen Bill Clinton second – meaning the Perot’s presence in the race might not have hurt or helped either candidate.
Indeed, the GOP is in need of reform, say both experts and the party itself, as it is viewed as the party of older, white males and perceived, rightly or wrongly, as not friendly to single women or minorities. She had a 51 percent unfavorable vote versus 41 percent favorable. For results among the full sample of 1,644 registered voters, it is plus or minus 2.4 points.
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As this article is evidence of, coverage of Trump hasn’t been too focused on his plans as possible president but instead about the outlandish things he says and his overall egotistic persona.
