Posted on 05/09/2016 12:19:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
From: Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling
To: Interested Parties
Subject: Americans Dont Trust Trump on Supreme Court Vacancy; 65% Want Hearings
Date: 5-9-16
A new national Public Policy Polling survey finds Americans dont trust Donald Trump to nominate a new Supreme Court justice, and would much rather have that decision in the hands of either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Beyond that, there is growing support for filling the seat this year and failure to do so could result in strong backlash for Senate Republicans this fall.
Key findings from the survey include:
-Only 38% of voters nationally trust Donald Trump to nominate a Supreme Court justice, compared to 53% who dont trust him to do that. Only 57% of voters even within his own party trust Trump to make a selection, and more than 80% of Democrats as well as a majority of independents dont trust him with that responsibility.
-Americans, by double digit margins, trust both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton more with the duty of picking a Supreme Court justice than Trump. Obama beats Trump 53/37 on that question, and Clinton does by a similar 52/37 spread as well. Whats particularly noteworthy is that in addition to more than 80% of Democrats, 29% of Republicans would prefer either Obama or Clinton making that decision to their own partys presumptive nominee for President.
-By a 58/37 spread, Americans want the Supreme Court seat to be filled this year. Thats actually up from 56/40 support for filling it this year on a national PPP poll in early March. The reason for the shift is that 39% of Republicans now think the seat should be filled immediately, up from just 26% two months ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...
That’s what the OP does
Post crap critical of Trump for 8 months and often from leftist sites
That is the essence of Cruzlim hubris
Bullcrap!
Time for Trump to put out his list of potential nominees to shut people up.
You can smell the fear.
I would guess that 75-85% of Americans do not know there is a vacancy in the SCOTUS.
It's over, done, finished, climaxed, THE END and way past tikme for them to stop this puerile, incivil, silly, useless behavior. :-)
If this were true, then Trump would NOT be the GOP presumptive nominee. ;^)
I don’t trust any of them, but the notion that a majority want the GOP senate to cave on the Obama appointee is complete BS.
Yeah, that’ll change.
SPOT ON!
The Libs are the only ones that want hearings now because they now believe Trump will get all the nominations.
Donald Trump is not a conservative. He has strong points however that Comrade Grandma will never match and will ever try to match. Support for 2nd Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms; support for veterans and their benefits and care; enforcement of immigration laws and borders; restoring American industrial jobs; restoring the American military (the army has never had fewer personnel since 1940 despite collossal Obozo spending sprees on everything else); and end to federal jackboots imposing political correctness; a kick in the teeth to the lifestyle leftists we despise.
If I had been asked this poll question, I would have said I did not trust him on SCOTUS (and federal judicial nominations) although his recent hiring of a reliable and experienced adviser on pro-life issues is re-assuring, but the question is not designed to elicit the whole story. I absolutely trust Comrade Grandma to appoint anti-American, baby-killing, marriage destroying, lifestyle fascist social barbarians/totalitarians to the SCOTUS wo will also be dedicated to eradicating freedom of speech for Grandmas opponents, ending genuine free enterprise, upholding any and all taxation and regulation schemes that Comrade Grandma's commissars can dream up, let the IRS run wild, shut down whatever there is of an American energy industry, etc., etc., etc. ad infinitum ad nauseam.
The better question would have been: Who do you trust more on SCOTUS nominations: Donald J. Trump or Hillary Rodham Clinton? Trump obviously. p> If the pollster had been inclined to load the question in a rightward direction, the pollster might have asked (pick your own favorite issue): In light of Supreme Court decisions in recent years as to (fill in the blank as many times as you like), whom do you trust more on SCOTUS nominations: Donald J. Trump or Hillary Rodham Clinton? Trump even more obviously.
Damn, that's funny. Unintentional humor is the cruelest kind.
Whom did they ask?????????????????
When they say “Americans”, that means the survey is not restricted to registered voters or even citizens, so it may well include aliens, legal and illegal ones — so what a surprise those don’t like Trump.
Good points, BlackElk.
I wonder why it is that Democrats can always be sure they’re voting for a good, solid Marxist, while we have no idea what to expect from our candidate if he’s elected.
Are you that out of it?
86% of Americans don’t even know what the Supreme Court is, much less what the process is for replacing justices.
When you're a deranged Cruzbot, you don't even need to look for them, they find you.
How many anti-trump articles is this for you today?
FRiend, you are aiming your fire in the wrong direct. It is not Trumpers who are posting divisive garbage about another candidate. Trumpers are ready to let bygones be bygones after a hard fought primary. Unfortunately, Ted Cruz and many of his supporters have shown they are not willing to let he primary end and persist in disparaging Trump. So my advice to you is to take this issue up with them.
Thats what the OP does
Post crap critical of Trump for 8 months and often from leftist sites
That is the essence of Cruzlim hubris
This behavior makes it a lot harder to support Cruz ever again. I’m willing to forgive him calling me low info, using the occasion of assaults on us in Chicago to attack Trump, etc. But it’s a two way street and Ted Cruz quite clearly stoked this anti-Trump nonsense with his “press conference” tantrum the day he left the race. He will pay a price for this selfishness eventually, guaranteed.
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