Mr. Trump picked up 13 points of support in the poll since October. Sen. Jeb Bush is getting the backing of just three % of Republican main voters nationwide, his lowest proportion so far in CBS News source polling.
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Some Republican voters do not see Trump’s idea as an absolute policy, but one that would provide much-needed extra screening to keep out radicalized Muslims, such as those who might be lurking among the Syrian refugees who are to be resettled in the United States.
While Trump’s support is expanding among Republicans, some party adherents expressed fear about the candidate’s potential to actually become president. Business Insider cites a Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll which finds almost two-thirds of likely Republican primary voters are in favor of Trump’s proposed Muslim ban.
Trump has also led early state polling, with clear leads in Iowa, New Hampshire and SC. Cruz and Rubio were tied for third at 14 percent. The online poll indicated that 37 percent of likely voters support the plan. Lindsey Graham, 2%, Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, 2%, N.J. Governor Chris Christie, 1%, Ohio Governor John Kasich, 1%, and U.S. Sen. The latest edition of The Winthrop Poll, released this week.
Donald Trump remaining on top has the GOP nervous, but Ted Cruz is steadily rising.
But with his promises of using his experience as a real estate mogul to make sweeping changes, Trump has found steady support among voters who feel alienated and want a political newcomer to lead in Washington, D.C.
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Winthrop University recently surveyed 828 SC likely republican voters by phone between November 30 and December 7 to ask them who they would vote for in the upcoming presidential election. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points for registered voters and plus or minus 6 percentage points each for Republican and Democratic primary voters.
