Posted on 09/23/2015 5:31:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most Republicans feel betrayed by their party -- and show their displeasure by supporting outsiders over establishment candidates in the GOP presidential race.
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson are favorites in the Republican race in the latest Fox News national poll on the 2016 election. Neither has held elected office before and yet the two of them -- together with businesswoman Carly Fiorina -- capture the support of more than half of GOP primary voters.
On the Democratic side, support for Vice President Joe Biden -- who is still considering a run -- has almost doubled since August. But make no mistake: Hillary Clinton remains frontrunner.
Trump stays on top with 26 percent among GOP primary voters, followed by Carson at 18 percent. Fiorina and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are next, tied at 9 percent. All four have gained ground. After the August Fox News debate, Trump had 25 percent, while Carson had 12 percent, Fiorina 5 percent and Rubio 4 percent.
Trump holds his leader status even though he was once again rated in the poll as having done the worst job in the debate. Fiorina, Rubio and Carson receive positive marks for their performances.
The appeal of outsiders comes from significant dissatisfaction with the party establishment: 62 percent of Republican primary voters feel “betrayed” by politicians in their party, and another 66 percent say the recent Republican majorities in Washington have failed to do all they could to block or reverse President Obama’s agenda. For comparison, 40 percent of Democratic primary voters feel betrayed by their party.
Frustration with party leaders has been a recurring theme for one sitting GOP senator in the race, Ted Cruz of Texas, who is next in the poll at eight percent. He was at 10 percent in August.
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I’m telling ya, we want hillary to win the nomination.
Biden does well in polls because people are idiots and think he is some kind of elder statesman.
Repubs do Much better in polls against pantsuit than Uncle Joe.
I don’t trust Fox News on anything anymore.
He has to decide by which day in Oct ???
Fox has a poll? I thought they only used the ones from CNN.
“On the Democratic side, support for Vice President Joe Biden — who is still considering a run — has almost doubled since August. But make no mistake: Hillary Clinton remains frontrunner.”
Since the urinalist didn’t bother to report an actual number, I am going to assume Biden went from 1% to 2%.
People underestimate Biden, but he’s not going to be able to smirk, guffaw and roll his eyes to get to be president.
It always irks me the way they talk about how good a “job” so-and-so did in a debate. Who gives a rat’s patootie! Obviously not Trump supporters. Go Donald!
I know but he’s a vicious debater and ruthless politician. I’d just rather face pantsuit or the hippie.
The Bush News Network..Trump is right..Laura Imgraham I’m also done with although I knew she was always kind of beltway. adage pretended to be fair for awhile but she is a Bushie too in disguise
I heard on my local radio station that Rubio says he’ll be in the #1 spot by February.
Mt feeling is this — Trump will choose him as running mate should he win the nomination and not Ted Cruz.
REASON: Trump needs Florida. He will have Texas in the bag.
You are absolutely right. I make fun of him all the time calling him The Idiot Biden because of his gaffes, but he is a good campaigner.
yeah, he scared me the most out of those three.
And he has the luxury of his gaffes not getting much coverage by the Soviet networks, er, alphabet networks.
And don't think for one minute Trump doesn't know about that potentially disastrous vote.
Cruz is toast.
Trump has more support in FL than Rubio and Bush combined. Adding either of them would probably only hurt him with Indies and Dems.
For the record, I don’t think he’ll pick Cruz either. Maybe for AG or SCOTUS.
lol! Great post. As usual, had to look up the person who said it.
People on this site know too much :)
RE: I won’t go into it but I’m on record as saying Cruz is not worthy of holding any public office because of his Corker vote.
If that one mistake disqualifies him from public office, then Reagan’s mistake in signing the amnesty bill of 1987 should disqualify him too.
Which means you want every single person in Congress who makes one mistake out of office.
Good luck finding that special someone.
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