Jim Cole/AP Donald Trump widened his lead in the latest poll. Ascending to second-place position in the poll: Marco Rubio, who gained 3 percentage points for a total of 17%.
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While nothing seems to be able to topple Donald “Teflon Don” Trump, Ben Carson isn’t enjoying the same kind of luck. It’s not always easy to see this behind the bellicose rhetoric favored by Republicans, but even at the very beginning of Cruz’s campaign he said things like, “It’s worth noting, in eight years, the largest country Ronald Reagan ever invaded was Grenada”.
Malloy can not be said to marvel at Trump himself, however, as he thought prospective Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen.
In an interview with Bloomberg Politics, Cruz assailed Rubio for backing the 2011 military action in Libya and supporting the arming of rebels in Syria. Clinton also polls slightly above all the Republican candidates in December, whereas she polled slightly behind them last month. Bush has spent $28 million on TV ads but has 5 percent in this poll. In hypothetical general election matchups, Clinton would beat Trump, 47 percent to 41 percent. Sanders does better than Clinton in part to the former Secretary of State’s high negatives and a feeling by voters that she is untruthful.
Cruz is highly attuned to the views and grievances that animate Republican voters, even when they are out of step with the right-intellectual consensus. Cruz, who has 24 percent support among evangelicals, appears to have siphoned the bulk of those voters – last month he carried just 16 percent support in that category. Calling the issue of contraception a “nonsense-issue”, the senator explained that he feels “anyone who wants contraceptives can access them”. Carson, who was in a virtual tie with Trump in a Quinnipiac poll taken last month, finds his support dropping to 16 percent, now tied with Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Carson’s decline comes amid criticism over disputed stories he told from his childhood and questions raised about his lack of foreign policy experience, according to the New York Daily News.
Trump this morning topped a new Quinnipiac University poll with 27 percent of the vote, but come January, the polls will likely look much different, he continued, but Trump does hold many attributes voters are seeking, and many of his backers will continue to support him “through and through”.
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“He does show strength, he’s an entrepreneur and he’s willing to change Washington”, McCarthy said of Trump. If Rubio tries to out-Trump Trump to win the nomination, Republicans would be better off with the real Trump.
