Posted on 12/14/2015 9:11:10 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is climbing to his highest support yet in a new national poll.
The real estate mogul earned a broad 41 percent support from Republicans and Republican-leaning registered voters in a new national Monmouth University poll released today.
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Looks like they surveyed the part of the country in between the Pacific and Atlantic again, eh?
I will track down a direct link to the poll.
But what about IOWA? ;)
When Republicans and Republican-leaning voters are asked who they would support for the GOP nomination for president, Donald Trump leads the pack at 41%. Ted Cruz (14%), Marco Rubio (10%), and Ben Carson (9%) are far behind. All of the other ten candidates tested poll in the low single digits, including Jeb Bush (3%), John Kasich (3%), Chris Christie (2%), Carly Fiorina (2%), Mike Huckabee (2%), and Rand Paul (2%). All but Huckabee have been invited to the main stage for tomorrow's debate.
I have heard on EVERY SINGLE news station today that Hillary would beat Trump and Cruz but, Rubio would beat Hillary if elections were held today.
I tend to shy away from polls that show Trump at 40% plus. A few have but polls can be gamed high too prior to creating a big fall scenario.
It’s an interesting number to be sure.
If other polls move in this direction, I’ll feel more comfortable with it.
Just wait until people hear that he wants to build a wall on the Mexican boarder and send all the illegals home. His support will surely collapse! /sarc
Monmouth had Carson ahead a few weeks ago.
Last week they had Cruz pulling ahead.
Another week, another bunch of meaningless polls.
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Another morning poll has Hillary beating everyone but Rubio. LOL Rubio is running a distant 3rd or 4th in most other polls — be he is going to beat Hillary?
Yeah, right.
Hillary facing Rubio in presidential debates reminds me of Hillary taking down Rick Lazio.
They should confine their polls to the islands of Hawaii, New York, and Florida. That will be far more representative. Lol.
This is pretty surprising. I didn’t like the Iowa poll showing Cruz up by 10, and I don’t like this national poll showing Trump up by 27.
Outlier? Bad polling structure? Or is the race really this fluid?
Will wait to see a few more polls before deciding.
Republicans set to win Suckers of the Century Award.
"It has become abundantly clear that Trump is giving his supporters exactly what they want, even if what he says causes the GOP leadership and many Republican voters to cringe" said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, NJ.
While nearly 2-in-3 (65%) voters overall agree that Trump has the temperament to take on the role of president, there are significant differences in this view among the GOP electorate. More than 9-in-10 (94%) Trump supporters say he has the right temperament. Cruz voters are more likely to have a positive (52%) rather than negative (43%) opinion of Trump's demeanor.
Don't believe it for a second. The left is scared to death of their chances against Trump.
The more the GOPe and DEMOgoguebureauCRATS hate him, the better he looks.
TRUMP/CRUZ!
41% Trump
14% Cruz
WOW that’s going to change some real clear politics number averages
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