Posted on 01/14/2016 6:30:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Going into tonight's debate in Charleston the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll has some interesting numbers. Donald Trump is still holding, and even expanding, his following but in a one on one matchup with Ted Cruz he comes off second behind Cruz but beats Rubio is all the others are disregarded. This is along the lines of what we have been predicting all along. Trump may be leading a multi-candidate pack but he has never polled enough to actually win the nomination. Thus, it is going to be interested when the field is whittled down and the delegates are selected proportionally. If we had to bet right now, we would put our money (both quarters) on Cruz. Here are the numbers:
Donald Trump has more than doubled his national lead in the Republican presidential race ahead of Thursday night's GOP debate here, according to the results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Trump is the first choice of 33 percent of national Republican primary voters - his highest percentage in the poll. He's followed by Ted Cruz at 20 percent, Marco Rubio at 13 percent and Ben Carson at 12 percent. Chris Christie and Jeb Bush are tied at five percent. No other Republican presidential candidate gets more than 3 percent.
Trump's 13-point lead over Cruz is an increase from last month, when he held a five-point advantage over the Texas senator, 27 percent to 22 percent.
Yet in a hypothetical one-on-one race between the two Republicans, Cruz tops Trump, 51 percent to 43 percent, while Trump beats Rubio in their one-on-one matchup, 52 percent to 45 percent.
In a three-way contest featuring the Top 3 Republicans in the poll, Trump gets 40 percent, Cruz 31 percent and Rubio 26 percent, underscoring the overall strengthen out of the outsider/insurgent wing of the Republican Party.
Maybe the most striking finding in this NBC/WSJ poll is the growing GOP acceptance of Trump. Back in March, only 23 percent of Republican primary voters said they could see themselves supporting the real-estate mogul. Now that number stands at 65 percent.
The Republican candidates with the highest percentages on this question are Cruz (at 71 percent, up from 40 percent in March) and Rubio (at 67 percent, up from 56 percent 10 months ago).
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Yep. Cruz is hitting it out of the park bigtime.
Considering that every time Trump is attacked and booed his polling seems to go up, maybe the GOPe was actually supporting Trump 8^{ )
Do you mean there? Those in the audience is GOPs supporters. And by the way jerk, I think Cruz is doing quite an impressive job. You are not the hall monitor.
I don’t know why it got pulled. I had settled in found a thread after I had hooked up with the FOXBusiness site and whammo it was gone.
You are scary weird!
So you won’t defend your accusation? How typical.
Cruz has big problems with this citizenship thing. They are going to sue him all to hell. The Goldman Sachs thing is a very bad problem too. Trump does not back down and Cruz is falling in the polls. These are just facts. Cruz is damaged.
You are oh so right - I finally figured out DT is very low info.
Thanks!
Because he wanted him for VP.
To quote Bush Sr: It would not be prudent at this juncture.
>> whammo it was gone.
Was that the official live thread? If so, that explains why I can’t seem to locate it.
We will have more clarity after SC primary.
Did he?
I recall him saying something along the lines of The chances of the SCOTUS doing anything are zero. That’s a paraphrase, not a direct quote.
But now I have to ask myself do I agree with that assessment? Do I want to take chances with this election?
I don’t know.
Do I?
It read “Debate thread” or something. I thought it was legit.
Totally agree. Watch Trump trend higher in Iowa. He is already up 6% over Cruz. By Feb1 he will be up over 10% and may most likely win by much higher margins. Cruz is damaged goods with this citizenship thing and Goldman Sachs. Goldman has hurt millions of people in a very bad way including many on FR. Cruz is too damaged at this point.
Plus give me a break. The audience is stacked against Trump. so obvious. Bad idea. This is good for another 5% bump in the national polls and in Iowa.
Trumps supporters would vote for Cruz, Cruz supporters are well whatever...
What accusations? You can’t understand for some reason that the GOPe hands the tickets to those they want present. Are you obtuse or a GOPe? Even Cruz is not receiving the traction his presentation merits.
He was a booed a couple of times during BC issue. I am sure he was taken aback.
This Live Thread is alive and well.
It was posted by Jim. So there is no chance it will be pulled.
It has over 1200 posts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3383774/posts
Of course and even your guy isn’t getting the positive reaction his comments have merited.
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