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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Trump is succeeding because he speaks this way, he is breaking through to the LIV’S!!! You have to realize MOST people in this country are VERY IGNORANT but they still vote unfortunately!!! Trump is speaking at their level !!!
Bingo!!!!
It’s showing here very clearly. He is over his head, but his
supporters don’t really care. I know because I’m married to
one.
Cruz was loudly booed for correcting the GOPe guy Rubio. Now do you see why I said the audience is GOPe groupies? Not an impartial audience there to listen and learn.
I read this last week, a NH head to head poll Cruz beats Trump by 6-7 points. Trump also has high unfavorables on most all polls. Cruz has the lowest unfavorables.
I didn’t think Ted had a good night.
I was responding apparently wrongly with the idea from other comments that Trump was the one booed and sarcastically( I always get in trouble if I don’t tag it) that the audience was packed to boo Trump to boost his poll numbers.
Donald Trump BLATANTLY lied a few days ago (it's on video), when he fibbed to his audience, saying (and I quote): "Now Ted just switched his views on ethanol. He was totally against ethanol, now all the sudden he's for it, you know, it's Iowa and he's for it."
A bold-faced LIE on the part of Donald Trump. But hey, whatever it takes to win, right? Donald Trump is a winner, right? So if he has to lie to win ... well, he's still a winner, right?
Wrong. Guys who have to lie to win are losers even if they win.
I'm lovin' it.
Time for the other candidates to start dropping out so Trump can go back to real estate.
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