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Posted on 08/24/2015 2:30:39 PM PDT by xzins
Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party's U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.
Republican voters show no signs they are growing weary of the brash real estate mogul, who has dominated political headlines and the 17-strong Republican presidential field with his tough talk about immigration and insults directed at his political rivals. The candidates are vying to be nominated to represent their party in the November 2016 general election.
Nearly 32 percent of Republicans surveyed online said they backed Trump, up from 24 percent a week earlier, the opinion poll found. Trump had nearly double the support of his closest competitor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who got 16 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was third at 8 percent.
Even when Trump was pitted directly in the poll against just his top two competitors, 44 percent backed him. Bush won about 29 percent of respondents, and Carson 25 percent.
"He's not taking any guff from anybody," Dewey Stedman, 70, a Republican from East Wenatchee, Washington, said of the publicity-loving billionaire. "If you don't have something in your brains, you're not going to have billions of dollars."
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3, 2, 1, ..............
I bet this is driving the left and the country club Republicans CrAzY!!!!
Betcha we still get Jeb for the nominee.
Betcha also that he’ll loose his plump little small brain topped bum.
Ideologically flawed, but beloved for his ability to shred the MSM.
I hope Drunkin Boner & McConnell get no sleep for the next year.
16 percent for Jebbie, a horrible choice, is huge.
Bush can’t win without Dem Op Chaos 2016.
He’s got minimal popular support among the R rank and file.
That is freakin’ impossible! /s
Did you know that Boehner’s health lawyer advisor resigned today, and that she’s the sister of the woman featured on the videos negotiating to buy baby parts from planned parenthood?
“I hope Drunkin Boner & McConnell get no sleep for the next year.”
Time to start sending them adios emails!
Besides Trump, the only other ones who have an upward trend is
Cruz and Carson.
Walker is kaput. Nice man. Good Governor, but not ready for prime time.
If Boner and Mc Turtle did what they promised there would not be a D. Trump.
LOL What a fantastic idea!
Yup. Trump is a direct result of Liars, Inc aka the betraying GOPe.
Trump, Cruz, Carson and ¿Jebbie are the only four I see surviving much past Iowa/NH. And Jebbie only because he’s got the establishment money and resources.
I just don’t understand...
The media (including Reuters) is again picking the GOP candidate... how nice.
WHO are they polling? Yes, I can see some idiots supporting Trump - he is entertaining (in a nerve-grinding way). But he also more identifies as a Democrat... he is to the Left of the last two RINO/GOP candidates we had.
This is the same guy who loves Hillary.. and directly supporter her last time around...
This is the same Trump who has favored government-run health care. The same Trump who has supported abortion. The same trump who has taken so many other very LEFTist positions over the years...
But for Jeb Bush to be supposedly in “2nd”... even if polling at ½ of Trump’s numbers... seriously? Of all the “Republican” voters I know, I have only encountered one who even tolerates Jeb -
So again, where are they connecting these polls?
IF these actually reflect reality - this nation is in even worse shape than I feared.
Trump represents all the people arrogant John Boner flipped off with his lying.
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