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Posted on 02/23/2016 9:13:35 AM PST by No Dems 2016
With Jeb Bush out, Donald Trump has widened his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Voters finds Trump with 36% support, giving him a 15-point lead over Senator Marco Rubio who earns 21% of the vote. Senator Ted Cruz is in third place with 17%.
For Trump, that's a five-point gain in support from the beginning of this month just after the Iowa caucus and right before the New Hampshire primary when it was Trump 31%, Rubio 21% and Cruz 20% among likely GOP voters. Rubio's support has held steady, while support for Cruz has fallen slightly.
In mid-December, Trump led with 29% Republican support, with Cruz in second with 18% and Rubio at 15%.
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I don't have time to read the link carefully at the moment.
My understanding is that Betfair.com is the only political betting site for American elections that allows wagers of UNLIMITED size.
He's got the RNC and the media. That's why he took votes away from Cruz in SC.
The only one Rubio hurts is Cruz, and national polls say Cruz is the only one who can beat Hillary. The Republicans are setting themselves up for defeat.
I just hope all the Cruz folks got in at long odds and will grow wealthy beyond their dreams.
ted and his campaign was all wrong. He thought if he got evangelicals out then it would give him the white house when clearly there are not enough evangelicals in the country.
I was looking forward to voting for him, but it seems as the days go by he would be more suited to the SCOTUS where he can have an a help in the country for at least a generation.
The election is a completely different board-game with its own unique rules. With that in mind, we are all looking forward for a Republican candidate to attack the Dems with at least as much blood and guts as they do. Right now, Mr. Trump is showing that he can play it tough---and he is incredibly good at it. I can't wait!!
ReallY??? What about Trumps campaign?
He's saying he's for eminent domain.
He's saying he's for Planned Parenthood funding.
He's saying he wants single payer health care.
He's saying He likes government subsidies.
He's saying hell make deals with Democrats.
And he uses crony capitalism to make himself rich.
Is that REALLY what you want to hear? Isn't that what pi$$ed us off in the first place???
Wasn't South Carolina south enough? GA? FL? AL? Cruz doing well there? No, just favorite son in Texas and he's not quite climbing to the top there either.
And then re-invest their winnings in the booming Cruz economy!
Sadly, I believe it's all over for Mr. Cruz in 2016.
Now my choices are former-Democrat, former-Reform Party candidate Donald Trump, and Marco “Gang of Eight” Rubio.
The Republican Party has already been fractured.
But Trump and Rubio will fracture the Conservative coalition, too.
Politically, I can find nothing to be optimistic about in America's future.
Every major political candidate, in both Parties, except Santorum, supports massive LEGAL immigration, currently running at 1.25 million per year.
Since 80% of new immigrant citizens vote for the Democrat Party, it doesn't take a math genius to see where this is all going.
‘He’s a strict Constitutionalists. He has to be for deportation. He said that’s was ICE was for. As a Constitutionalists, it’s self explanatory.
NOT sending them home breaks our laws. Cruz would have no choice if he wanted to keep his conscience clean and stick to his life long principals.’
For mos he promised a national “conversatio” re what to do with the illegals once the border was ‘ secure.’ Are you now denying that Cruz promised this “conversation”?
I have an alternate conclusion. Cruz couldn’t win enough evangelicals.
Look, Cruz is a capable guy, but he’s been derailed and his own followers have done him in.
His support is dwindling to the hard core RINO right and nobody wants to appeal to them alone.
Trump can lose that hard core RINO right because it means a disproportionate gain with Democrats that have been disenfranchised by the Progressives in the party.
Wait until they bring out the interview where Trump says Blacks are lazy, and all they do is take drugs and make babies.
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For a huge percentage, he is lying? Where do you live?
“Make America Great Again” = “Hope and Change.” We’ve seen all this before...
Well then if you are a Dem then you’d say obama has been YUGEly successful in implementing a Liberal agenda! So then I would think that Trump would be YUGEly successful in implementing a Conservative agenda. You may say BS but I’d be more than willing to give him that chance considering the alternative:-)
The same Breitbart article that incorrectly claimed Trump was pushing single payer refutes the charge. It quotes Trump as saying most plans will be private. The majority of insurance plans being private is not the definition of single payer.
Not that I expect you to stop spreading the lie. Cruz and his supporters cling to lies like shipwreck victims clinging to life preservers.
‘But for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.’
I could argue with you about why these polls are inaccurate, but the point is moot.
It is not now, nor will it ever be a two man race between Trump and Cruz; Rubio is not dropping out--period. He has everything to gain by staying in and absolutely nothing to gain by dropping out--NOTHING to gain by dropping out.
1) If there is a brokered convention, Rubio is the guy the GOPe will push for the nomination.
2) He could end up at VP; If the GOPe's price for supporting Trump is an establishment guy as VP (as it was with Reagan), then Rubio is again the guy.
3) He could lose, but that's no worse than dropping out now.
Nothing to lose.
Cruz also has nothing to lose by staying in, but unlike Rubio he also has nothing to gain.
1) In a brokered convention Cruz is the odd man out. The GOPe won't back him and without a boatload of delegates (which he WON'T have--see SC), he won't be in the running for the nomination.
2) If either Trump or Rubio go with a conservative to balance the ticket, it won't be Cruz. Negatives are too high, and the GOPe will object to Cruz. Someone like Sessions of Alabama would be a better fit--great conservative bonafies, low negatives, and hasn't burnt his bridges with the GOP e.
So, Cruz will lose and end up with no different than if he had dropped out now.
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It can’t be - the MSM told us repeatedly how voters would move to ‘not Trump’ and Trump had a low ceiling (while apparently Rubio had none at all)
What dearm??? He started out good, and once he got his followers hooked, he pulled a bait and switch. Now, he's a democrat voters dream date.
What makes what he's supporting now on the campaign trail any different than a democrat? He says he's going to deport, but 2 years ago he was all in for amnesty. Other than that, he wants everything oboma wanted but wasn't able to pull it off.
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