36% of the registered Republicans and independents with a Republican-leaning are backing him, and his nearest competitor is trailing by 20 points.
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Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman, is considered to be a promising candidate for the presidential elections, giving tough competition to another hopeful Hillary Clinton.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz was a distant second to Trump, getting the support of 16 percent of the Republicans and Republican-leading independents. Marco Rubio who has earned 12 percent, with no other candidate finishing in the double digits. Rand Paul at 1 percent.
The CNN/ORB poll interviewed 445 Republicans and has a margin of error of plus/minus 4.5 percent.
Data composed by CNN also shows the bombastic real estate mogul is up an impressive nine points over the last month, as his advantage of connecting with GOP voters on issues they deem as most important continues to pay dividends. Rubio and Carson are tied at 19%, and Trump is at 18%.
Trumps support is heavily concentrated among non-college educated Republicans and those who only lean Republican and thus are less inclined to show up and vote in primaries and caucuses, Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginias Center for Politics said via email.
Donald Trump supporters did not have a very flattering picture painted of them by a new CNN/ORC poll.
“Trump maintained leads in other polls as well”.
The New York Times published Tuesday an article that talks about the panic that now reigns within the Republican Party, “as it becomes increasingly plausible that Mr. Trump could be the party’s standard-bearer”. Hence, it’s not surprising that Trump’s support is higher in this poll than in the previous two polls where they did not ask these immigration questions.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson was at 14 percent, a drop of 8 percentage points.
On immigration, an issue that has been a focal point of Mr Trump’s campaign, most Americans say the government should not attempt to deport all people living in the country illegally (63 per cent).
We’re not even sure what to say about this any more.
Republican voters remain more enthusiastic about voting than their Democratic counterparts, but the gains in enthusiasm that had emerged through October appear to have stalled. Mr. Trump’s approach to truth – it is whatever I want it to be – uniquely threatens the notion that people of different identities and experiences can nevertheless conduct a civil dialogue based on the universal language of observable fact.
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Bush: 3 percent in latest Republican poll.
