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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Not as detailed or as good as Trump’s immigration plan.
Maybe we need more Safe zones for Carson supporters.
They can go to the U of Missouri, Yale, Cal Bezerkley and other radical lib campuses.
I should have been more clear: Never have I seen the media so blatantly biased during the run-up to a Presidential election.
Yet these same brain dead idiots will be running behind some woman's (mother's) apron and demand protection when it comes their way. Obama promised them things, never fear idiots you will get what he promised and you deserve it all.
Those attacks are valid but even if it slightly damaged Trump the fact that the terrorists have to be stopped will neutralize any damage.
In recent weeks, I’ve given serious thought to Trump. I’m not inclined to like him, as I think he is an arrogant blowhard with one and only one true mission - the building up of Trump.
That said, I’ve recognized that he’s at least for the time being a genuine player and doesn’t appear to be fading or crashing - quite the opposite.
Still, I realized I can’t support him for a realpolitik reason that has nothing to do with who he is or what he stands for: If elected, he will have absolutely NO relationships on Capitol Hill and both parties will bend over backwards to screw him. It will be like Jimmy Carter all over again, except Carter took more than two full years to alienate most of Congress. Trump will have their total ire from day one.
Such a toxic relationship will ensure nothing ever gets done in Washington. It’ll make today’s gridlock and posturing look like The Era of Good Feeling.
I pray we elect a pro-American leader with courage to make up for trying to appease the enemy by electing the turd.
You’d think after 9/11 we wouldn’t have been so willfully blind as to elect such a thing as Barack Hussein Obama.
I agree. The Carson rant did not have to last 9 minutes. He covered the same material 5 times and at one point, seemed out of control.
Gridlock not all bad. It would have stopped Obamacare.
Any Gop candidate peddling the Group hug to the invading armies at our borders can kiss there election hopes good bye .
Carson
Rubio
Jebbie
Trump will say some things over the line, but that is what happens when you don’t speak politician.
Pray America wakes
There’s some kind of goofy homoerotic/erotic Freudian death impulse going on with the left.
We would add some elite so called conservatives. We know two women, who are turned off by Trump’s honesty and are Ben Nyquil supporters. They are well off economically, and their husbands need testosterone shots and Viagra.
It’s worth noting that if Bush had 42% the political/media establishment would have already declared the nomination process to be over. They would already be preparing for the coronation.
And I’m not a Trump supporter saying this.
Presidential candidate attacked mother with hammer and tried to kill 2 others. That’s even a worse headline.
if words don't work for you...here are a couple of images:
Carson...has the same goals as Sharpton
...and his adviser Armstrong Williams supports Farrakhan
“His attack on Carson is not going to sit well with people.”
No one gives a crap about that.
Just like all of the other stuff that “wasn’t going to sit well”.
The Immigration comments
The McCain Comments
The Comments about Meghan Kelly
The 9-11 comments
Maybe it’s high time for the fainting couch right to get a clue.
[His attack on Carson is not going to sit well with people.]
BEN CARSON’S love affair with himself along with his embellished recanting of his past sends up a red flag.
Do we need another Narcissist in Chief?
They are going to report that the landslide was only a small one, nothing, really.
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