Posted on 11/14/2015 6:50:22 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
After a week in which he hosted Saturday Night Live and stood center-stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump is surging among Republicans likely to cast votes in the party’s presidential primary. According to the five-day rolling Reuters/Ipsos presidential poll, Trump has leapt some 17 percentage points among likely Republican voters since Nov. 6, when he was essentially tied with Ben Carson at about 25 percent.
Among all Republicans - not simply likely primary voters -Trump holds a substantial edge over Carson, at 34 percent to about 20 percent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Trump’s appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live earned the program its highest ratings in two years, with 9.3 million viewers tuning in. Then, on Tuesday, 13.5 million viewers watched the debate from Milwaukee broadcast on the Fox Business Network. It remains to be seen, however, whether Trump’s surge will hold in the wake of his comments at an Iowa rally Thursday night in which he tore into Carson, telling the crowd that Carson has a "pathological" temper.
"If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that,†Trump said. "If you’re a child molester, there’s no cure for that.†Trump then posted a video critical of Carson on his Instagram account Friday. The Republican establishment has long expected the outspoken billionaire to fade, and he has yet to give it the satisfaction. Trump has consistently held more than 25 percent of the support among all Republicans in the Reuters/Ipsos rolling poll for more than two months. The Reuters/Ipsos poll is also bad news for Marco Rubio, who is widely considered to be emerging as the establishment-backed alternative to Trump. Despite receiving rave notices for his past two debate performance, Rubio’s support has remained flat, with about 10 percent of likely Republican primary voters preferring him.
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After Paris Trump will be @80%
His attack on Carson is not going to sit well with people.
You know how books have subtitles?
“Make America Great Again”
(Send them home)
>> After Paris Trump will be @80%
But I thought I read just yesterday that he was “imploding”... that the “wheels were finally coming off”...
But the media wing of the DNC will declare Trump finished.
I’m a Trump guy but Ted Cruz was just interviewed on FNC and made some statement that a POTUS should. Tore into Obama and Hillary. Wish I could find a transcript. It was epic.
FINALLY, Cruz comes out with a serious and detailed immigration plan
Saw that. He was just rephrasing (using PC grammar) what Trump said in Iowa night before last and in July. “ Send them home and bomb the shit out of them!”
ISIS elected Trump yesterday.
It just to show how easily poll results can be shifted by tweeking the sample .
If its true .
good news .
Tds suffers and concerned stealth DC trolls will be melting.
Maybe Paris will get their attention.
“His attack on Carson is not going to sit well with people.”
Those people need to wake the hell up and fix their priorities. Muslims running rampant and some idiots are hurt over name calling. Maybe we need more “Safe zones” for Carson supporters.
Cruz is my first choice but Trump second. Though the MSM including Fox has had limited success in bringing Trump down, I think they are taking it to the next level, wait until they come out with all the Fox /Network media polls
I suspect they will all try and suggest that Trump is hurt by his attacks on Carson. I believe they all have their orders in for such polls, btw I am not saying they actually pick up the phone and say we want this next poll to be bad for Trump , really hit him on his Carson attacks (who they dont even like)
No it`s just that the pollsters know what they are supposed to deliver just by watching how their clients cover the Carson coverage on all the cable and networks.
Every single on air person is seen rolling their eyes at Trump, so the pollsters know what they have to show.
There is no science in partisan political polling period, why Reuters is allowing Trump to probably show the accurate picture? Well wait until real crunch time when its 2 weeks before the election, they will have a big swing in favor of Hillary in the closing days
dream on TDS troll
Yep!
You call it an attack. I call it an explication. It sits well with me because it's accurate. You'd think Carson was a member of a protected class or something.
No. Those headlines are being readied once he runs vs Hitlery. Uness you have not been observing the past 2 prz elections, the MSM is just trying to pretend they are fair.....for now
Obama's days are numbered and he is working overtime to achieve his goal of destroying America. Go Trump/Cruz.
That was true, but now the attacks in Paris will wipe his comments about Carson from the headlines and from most everyone's memory. If Trump would stop those silly attacks and discuss the issues he will have another surge as events are making his stance on the issues look even more correct.
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