Posted on 05/29/2016 6:20:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who has very conspicuously withheld any endorsement of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, is absolutely crushing his Trump-supporting 2016 primary challenger.
Do You Support Paul Ryan For Re-Election?
Yes No
Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. The House Speaker leads the wan challenger, water filtration company executive Paul Nehlen, by 73 points among likely Republican primary voters in the first congressional district of Wisconsin, according a new poll conducted by The Washington Free Beacon.
The lopsided poll shows Ryan clobbering Nehlen, 80-7.
Assuming Ryan maintains some part of his healthy 73-point lead and defeats Nehlen, Ryan is likely to win the general election as well. He holds an 18-point lead over a generic Democrat (with 11 percent of voters undecided), the Free Beacon poll shows.
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Then Ryan has nothing to be concerned with as he continues his Romney policies.
Well, that’s disappointing.
I guess his constituents like having their country overrun with illegal aliens.
Is this a new poll? I vaguely remember something similar from earlier this month. I hate to play the ‘you can’t believe the polls’ game, but an earlier poll had both candidates (I believe) north of 40. Ryan is SOTH, but 73 points?
His hometown folks can’t vote to keep him speaker!
Excuse me, but why are you even connecting this in any way, with Donald Trump?
This is a dishonest headline. In my opinion. Nothing but attempting to get people to click.
Which it did I suppose, for me. But this is completely dishonest.
Just my opinion.
Maybe the Palin effect has kicked in?
Dude’s getting Nehleniated..
I didn’t write the headline. And Nehlen is Trump-supporting. So the headline is accurate as far as it goes.
But you are correct that the headline implies that Ryan is somehow beating Trump in his own district.
I tried to let people know that Ryan was more than safe, and thinking that because Trump steamrolled the national campaign did not mean that every politician was vulnerable.
They are free to try to take out Ryan, but the reality is he is very very safe.
Yes sorry, I wasn’t blaming you specifically.
But gimme a break.
Funny. In answer to the question
“Do you support Paul Ryan for Re-election?”
I see
Yes 13%
No 87%
That doesn’t look like overwhelming support for Ryan to me.
Could be a BS poll. There was one similar where they polled everywhere but where people actually would be voting.
Ryan has always been very popular in his district, which is the only one that matters.
Ryan has always been very popular in his district, which is the only one that matters.
Really not surprising. Only one small portion in the lower southeast portion of that district went for Trump, the rest went for Ted Cruz. Not because they really wanted Ted Cruz, but rather because the didn’t want Trump. They would have gone for Kasich, and more preferably so, had he been in a better position to stop Trump. Wisconsin has very few real conservatives in the more heavily populated regions. The real conservatives populate the more rural areas of the state.
Not surprising. His challenger is an unknown. Ryan should be careful because Cantor here dismissed Brat as his challenger and went on to lose his primary by a large margin. The key thing that led to the Brat victory was a huge grassroots mobilization. It really showed an example of how to knock off an incumbent in a primary but the problem is usually getting people motivated.
From the content of the actual poll, one finds 42% of the respondents are unaware of who Paul Nehlan is. So how trustworthy is this poll?
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WI1-toplines.pdf
BS on-line poll.
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