Posted on 03/18/2016 8:12:45 AM PDT by GeaugaRepublican
Support for all three of the remaining Republican candidates has grown with the narrowing of the field, but Donald Trump still holds a double-digit lead over both his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters finds Trump with 43% support to Senator Ted Cruz’s 28% and Ohio Governor John Kasich’s 21%. Just five percent (5%) of GOP voters like some other candidate, and three percent (3%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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Kasich is like the late Governor Scranton of Kasich’s native PA. Scranton came out near the end of the 1964 race to stop Goldwater after Rockefeller, a liberal then in the role of the conservative Cruz today, had already failed.
Yes, so many do like Mrs. Bill, but they won’t say why.
Cruz voters cannot get it through their heads that their candidate is not going to inherit all of Rubio and Kasich’s votes. The fundamental problem with Cruz is that NOBODY likes him outside of his supporters. There once were 16 candidates in the race, now their are 3, and Cruz cannot garner more than 25-30% in any poll. Facts are that Cruz cannot make the sale past his narrow base of ultra conservative and evangelical voters, coincidentally, those who have just as narrow of a view of things as he does. If Cruz cannot grow his vote through his message and personality, “hoping” that others gravitate towards him as a stop Trump effort is just silly.
I meant Trump!
OK. Thanks.
Real jackass, Kasich: you may be on to something there, as the late JFK said of Joe McCarthy’s investigations.
Mtrott meant ‘go to Trump’.
And Kasich is making some anti-Trump noises lately. I agree that DT has cemented his repub ceiling at 45%. His fans are not pleased with this development.
Look for blue states and the state polls in those states of Hillary v. Trump. NY, NJ, PA, CT.
Great points!
National general election match-ups are more of a beauty contest than a snapshot of the state of the race. The very blue states, like California, where any D polls 2+ to 1 over any R results in a strong D bias. It’s the polls of battleground states that matter in the general election and Donald Trump could put more states into play and thus increase his chances of beating Hillary.
“Could it be that the polls against Hillary are being cooked?”
I wouldn’t trust them a bit now. They are being used to shape the narrative.
For the good of the country Kasich needs to do the right thing and drop out.
This poll would suggest that he’s every bit as legitimate as Cruz. 28-21(Cruz). With the North East coming up I suppose he’ll be stronger there (in theory at least). He’s closer to Cruz than Cruz is to Trump in this poll so...
Republicans who are losing to Trump are very bitter now. I think it would change if the party gets behind him (or at least stops trying to actively destroy him)
In a 3 person race 42% is the magic number.
In a 2 person race, DT is over 50%.
If you want to talk ceiling...it looks like Cruz is about 30%. Not good. I can’t imagine what a Cruz supporter is feeling looking at the polls.
We know that the Dems fear Trump the most, because Pro-Hillary Super Pacs are spending money against Trump and no one else.
If Cruz cannot grow his vote through his message and personality, “hoping” that others gravitate towards him as a stop Trump effort is just silly.
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Said a different way:
How weak must Cruz be as a candidate to add anti-Trump people in order to win the nomination?
Begs the question:
How strong must a candidate be to utilize all these antics to take him down.
If Trump were the quarterback, we are watching a number of offensive lineman trying to sack him along with the other teams defenders.
Trump must be pretty strong.
“Trump went up 7, Cruz went up 7, Kasich went up 9.”
That is pretty much what happened when Bush got out. Trump’s numbers went up some along with the others.
“Kasich is a real jackass. He supposedly wants to stop Trump, yet his actions are handing Trump the nomination.”
Yes his actions are doing precisely that and I am grinning from ear to ear. GO TRUMP GO
Trump’s base has hit a ceiling. He should retire. October 1, 2015
The Trump candidacy is pure base, and Mr. Trump has not built out from that base, which topped out at about 30%. It’s become obvious that this third of angry conservative voters is volatile. Mr. Trump’s famous support base has eroded, dispersing to the other outsider candidates, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina. (Hot Air)
Trump has hit his Iowa ceiling January 12th, 2016 I think that the main thing this demonstrates is that Trump is truly limited to a 28 point ceiling in Iowa. (Red State)
What ceiling? Trump hits 53 per cent in latest poll of Republican primary voters and is the most-liked Republican left in the field 15 March 2016 (Dailey Mail)
That ceiling must move a lot....
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