After saying he’d prefer not to name his opponents for fear of artificially propping them up, Trump took shots by name at rivals Senators Marco Rubio and Lindsay Graham, Dr. Ben Carson, former governors Jeb Bush and George Pataki and OH governor John Kasich.
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Lisa Hagen of The Hill reports The Donald told the Washington Post, “When you’re leading in the polls, I think it’s too big of a risk to not do the debate”.
Among college graduates, Cruz is in the lead at 22 percent, Carson and Rubio tied at 19 percent and Trump is at 18 percent.
We are in December now, and the election is now less than eleven months away – the longer he stays at the top of the polls, the better the shot Trump has at actually being the GOP nominee!
Ted Cruz says his campaign has momentum. All the other candidates have support from less than 5% GOP voters in the race for the nomination for President from the Republican Party.
Both Rubio and Cruz have declared that if elected president they would move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Donald Trump has his largest lead of the GOP presidential race, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. Rubio has gained marginally by 4 points, and that increase is within the margin of sampling errors for the poll since the last poll in October.
And this week, a new Quinnipiac University poll showed Carson, whose appeal to evangelicals made him a top competitor for Cruz, dropped seven points after national security and foreign policy issues came into prominence on the campaign trail. On foreign policy, Trump inches up to 32%, and among those who call terrorism an extremely important issue, 49% say they trust Trump most on ISIS.
Pressed to explain his comments in an interview with The Associated Press in which Trump said “I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to make” a deal, the Republican front-runner refused to back down while speaking to the influential Republican Jewish Coalition – a staunch Israeli ally. Ward Baker advised Republicans to avoid getting “drawn into every Trump statement and every Trump dust-up” and to steer clear of the businessman’s “more extreme positioning”. It’s safe to say that his suggestion to have mosques around the country shut down went across well with voters, as his position in the polls didn’t budge there, either. No other Republican drew double-digit support.
Trump is way, way ahead among Republicans in who is best equipped to handle challenges that will face America’s 45th president.
Trip Gabriel and Ashley Parker of the New York Times report, “But instead of winning a second look from voters, Mr. Bush continues to be ignored, and to languish in the polls, even as the nation contends with what he calls ‘serious times that require serious leadership'”.
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The poll was conducted before this week’s deadly shootings in San Bernardino, California, which were carried out by a man reported to have been radicalized and his wife, claiming the lives of at least 14 people. Republican opinion on Trump’s “deport ’em all” plan is also complicated.
