But even as Carson has faded after struggling to talk about security and foreign policy, Trump has gone up in national polls, with a CNN/ORC national survey of registered voters showing 36 percent support for Trump.
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Senator Rand Paul (KY) now has only 1% Republican support to show for his campaign effort.
“They’re looking for energy and inspiration and a new path, a new direction”, she said. “If they stay fractured, then they may very well have to deal with the November consequences of a Trump nomination – and that won’t be pretty”.
Last month, Trump had 24 per cent, with 23 per cent for Carson. His rallies attract more supporters than any other candidate (on both sides of the aisle). We consume too many of them, too often. They ran the gamut from middle class families to female college students to senior citizens.
Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley registers just two percent in the much smaller Democratic field. A majority of 52 percent chose him as the top GOP candidate for the general, and a plurality of 42 percent said he would be most effective at solving issues facing the country.
Donald Trump has extended his lead in the Republican presidential nomination race amid a fresh bout of controversy over his remarks about Muslims, while Hillary Clinton has consolidated her lead among Democrats, a poll showed Wednesday. “When you go back to 2012, it’s 12.2 percent”.
Something else: the GOP establishment is far from sold on Trump at the moment. Marco Rubio (23 percent).
Rubio said that the act, which passed a few months ago with bipartisan support, “took away the right to collect metadata, which means that we can now not access the phone records of individuals that we either suspect of being involved in terrorism or who carry out an attack to see who they were coordinating or talking to”. In the Florida GOP primary, voters 45 or older made up 78 percent, and almost half of those were 65 or older.
This year, the Democratic nominee appears likely to come from the front wave of the baby boom generation, with Clinton born in 1947, or beyond, with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont born in 1941.
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You can read the rest of the story here. Are Donald Trump supporters “dumber” than average. The House GOP took full advantage and passed legislation that would have expedited deportations of children crossing the border, and separate legislation that would have ended the White House’s deferred-action program for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
