Posted on 08/07/2015 12:59:36 PM PDT by jimbo123
Donald Trump, to the surprise of naysayers, critics, media analysts and citizens, appears to be the controversial winner of the first round of Republican presidential debates Thursday evening.
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National Republican Senatorial Committee
Donald Trump 48%
Ted Cruz 10%
Marco Rubio 10%
Ben Carson 7%
Scott Walker 7%
Jeb Bush 6%
John Kasich 6%
Rand Paul 4%
Mike Huckabee 2%
Chris Christie 2%
San Diego Fox 5 News
Donald Trump 47.96%
Ben Carson 11.68%
Marco Rubio 9.98%
John Kasich 9.21%
Rand Paul 5.29%
Ted Cruz 5.04%
Jeb Bush 4.06%
Mike Huckabee 3.32%
Chris Christie 2.46%
Scott Walker 0.99%
PalmBeachPost.com FL at the 1,145 total count.
Donald Trump 55.37% (634 votes)
Marco Rubio 10.04% (115 votes)
Ben Carson 9.08% (104 votes)
John Kasich 7.51% (86 votes)
Ted Cruz 5.24% (60 votes)
Rand Paul 4.63% (53 votes)
Mike Huckabee 3.23% (37 votes)
Jeb Bush 2.71% (31 votes)
Chris Christie 1.4% (16 votes)
Scott Walker 0.79% (9 votes)
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I think you are wrong
Roger Ailes plan worked as intended
I like what Cruz and Walker have to say, but I’m rooting for Trump because I don’t think those other guys can beat Hillary. If it’s not Hillary, then I’m not sure who’s best against Sanders. But Sanders should be easy pickins if you stick to the truth about socialism’s lies and to the actual historical record of socialism’s continuous and disastrous failures. Not sure Trump gets that as much as a Cruz would.
Absolutely!
Re. Scott Walker.
They could have ask him more questions or ask follow-up questions. He was not rude,interrupting I have never donated to a political candidate since Ronald Reagan, but I am sending Walker $100—. any way I think Cruz won the debate.
Luntz is a puttz!!!
Luntz jumped the shark a few YEARS ago. Fixed!
That's why I said that Rubio, Cruz, and Paul were making big mistakes by saying "I sponsored legislation. . . ." That only reminds people they are in Washington and, to many people, they are part of the problem. We here understand what Cruz and Lee are trying to do, but outside the political junkie class, it looks like more "Washington tricks."
On the governors, I'm not sure, but I'm beginning to think that touting their "records" doesn't work either. People want to know less what you've DONE and how you are going to STOP THIS LUNACY.
I disagree. He is 2x anyone else in your “pure, hardcore, dyed in the wool constitutional Conservative who have sworn allegiance to the party” polls.
And when you start figuring that he is pulling a Huge number of New Yorkers and softcore liberals and indepedents in these open polls, it is not too hard to conclude Trump will crush all others.
Pray he taps Cruz, Palin, etc.
If the establishment picks Jeb, there will be a large number of conservatives and pizzed off voters voting Independent with Trump.
I don’ see how anyone person can be called a winner. Some performed great, some not so great. I don’t think the purpose of a 17 person field of candidates is to declare a winner, especially this early. It is to give everyone a good, an initial look at them so as to begin forming opinions. The field will shuffle and next time maybe one or more will rise to the top of the pack. That has not happened yet.
Not just Jeb! After hearing (way too much) crap from different sources about the latest "compassionate" and "adult" Great Moderate Hope from Ohio, I'm going to throw Kasich into my "no way, no how" category. It's as if Team GOP-e/Hillary hit the panic button last night and yanked Rubio out of his position as the "back-up" to send in when Jeb! can no longer be propped up by the PTB.
Mr. niteowl77
See my tagline.
When the real polls are in Trump will probably fare pretty well because of the horrible format of the debate along with the blatant bias and downright enmity of the three moderators.
Their conduct softens the effects of Trump’s rough performance and might even give him the edge because of the obvious effort to take him down.
FOX and the three moderators missed a chance to shine when they decided to take the low road and influence the debate with their choice of questions and unfair balance in the number of questions directed to each candidate.
They seemed so intent on beating Trump up that they ignored others.
As an example, I would have liked to hear more from Cruz and Carson..
To me the biggest diappointment was Bret Baier,
You better do your homework before you anoint Carly. She is a phony, a hypocrite and is now a conservative fraud. I somehow suspect she was given her questions before yesterday’s debate. Her answers were too canned and precise to sound real to me.
I thought each candidate had some good comments. However, in this politically correct country, didn’t they all win and get a trophy? I guess that doesn’t work when it comes to the libs calling out winners and losers????
Ditto.
Regards to Nurse Ratched.
“You know that wasn’t so long ago. But I guess the Trumpsters don’t care that he has now “evolved” (his own words) recently and claims to have morphed into a conservative.
This is just cult of personality stuff. Trump is fighting for himself and will do whatever he needs to do at any given time to further his ambitions”
I get so tired of reading this stuff (I know, I could just stop). Trump was a conservative in 2000 when he wrote “The America We Deserve” and in 2011 when he wrote “Time to Get Tough”. Perhaps not a pure enough conservative for you but a lot more conservative than a lot of the other candidates.
I am not sure that I believe scientific polling much either. I think polls this far out from any election are all pretty worthless.
I read “Time to Get Tough”. It seems to me that what he is saying now is pretty consistent with what he wrote in that book.
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