Posted on 02/04/2016 12:29:46 PM PST by justlittleoleme
For nearly seven months, businessman Donald Trump held the mantle of Republican presidential frontrunner, confounding widespread expectations that his support would collapse well before GOP voters cast their first ballots.
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Trump remains the nominal leader in a survey from Public Policy Polling. But at 25% support, he's locked in a statistical tie with Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who each claim 21% support.
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For Trump, the result marks a dramatic comedown from December, when he lead Cruz, his nearest rival, by a 34% to 18% margin in the PPP survey. Trump is now at his lowest mark in the PPP poll since July, when he led the field with 19% support.
Trump has a chance to reset the narrative in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, which most recent polls show he's favored to win. But with mainstream Republican support increasingly accruing to Rubio and Cruz showing strength with very conservative GOP voters, Trump now finds himself at his most vulnerable point since entering the race in June.
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The Donald did the collapsing after the caucuses all on his own sweet self.
It amazes me that people seem to change their minds so much based on the previous week’s primary.
We’ll see how done Cruz is after NH.
A Canadian, an amnesty pimp, and a guy who is morphing into Ross Perot right before our eyes. This can’t end well.
PPP is a Democrat polling organization.
Rubio will collapse as people learn of his two-faced interview with Jorge Ramos where he said he would keep Obama’s executive orders in place.
Why do you insist on posting inane comments that are provably erronious?
That not necessarily the case. As primaries get closer not only do more people make up their mind, but once they have made it up, they are more likely to speak with a poller. Therefore, early on you might have 30% of early deciders, but not pick up many new voters. Early on a poller migher call 10,000 people to get 500 responses. Later, they might only have to call 1,500 people to get 500 responses. Trump picked up a lot of early committers, but it appears that he is failing to attract more, as the pie grows.
well one does hope so.
Until someone backs up PPP, I'm inclined to believe they're just pushing the Rubio media meme.
I like this poll. Let that dope Cruz get his Canadian hopes up. Then he will way under plan his cheat requirements.
I noticed they conveniently omitted the word "statistical" here. Usually such a poll would produce a "candidate X has a 4-point lead over candidate Y" headline.
This is the 7th time these idiot Cruz people keep posting this.
They just look for another blog post about it, and then rush here to re re re re post it.
“We’ll see how done Cruz is after NH.”
I assume you’re aware that New Hampshire doesn’t have the evangelicals that Iowa has. He will not do as well.
Another Trump Easter Egg.
This is fun.
“We’ll see how done Cruz is after NH.”
Since liberal NH does NOT matter. Cruz will NOT be done regardless of the outcome. NH only has 23 proportional delegates, which means Trump might get 5 in a blowout, and NH always votes demoncrat in the general. Trump supporters putting their hopes on NH is just too funny.
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