Posted on 08/19/2015 7:04:16 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Washington (CNN)—Since announcing his campaign in late June, Donald Trump has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading recent polls nationally, in Iowa and in New Hampshire. And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling, his gains among the Republican Party have boosted him enough to be competitive in the general election.
The poll finds Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump by just 6 points, a dramatic tightening since July. Trump is the one of three Republican candidates who have been matched against Clinton multiple times in CNN/ORC polling to significantly whittle the gap between himself and the Democratic frontrunner. He trailed Clinton by 16 points in a July poll, and narrowed that gap by boosting his standing among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (from 67% support in July to 79% now), men (from 46% in July to 53% now) and white voters (from 50% to 55%).
But Clinton still holds the cards overall in the race for the White House, leading four Republican contenders: She tops Trump and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker by 6 points each among registered voters, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by 9 points, and businesswoman Carly Fiorina by 10 points.
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I think he has burned too many bridges to do that.
You can tell a lot about a person by who his enemies are.
He certainly has all the right enemies and they are very angry with him.
I don’t think labels like Conservative or Liberal mean very much today. They are often used to hide who a politician really is for.
“Jeb will re-emerge as a border hawk, count on it. He’ll have to.”
And I’ll trust him just about as much as the current “Conservatives” in Congress.
¡Yeb! is definitely NOT electable.
He’s a Democrat in an R jersey and unwilling to lie about it like Romney.
I agree, I would have never considered Trump before now, but he may be the only way to smash the Uniparty and stop The Cheap Labor Express.
Not really. They are determining who gets in the debates. They are determining who gets bucks from donors. They are pretty important. Now their meaning as to what is eventually going to shake out is probably small, but you can't blow them off as merely entertainment.
I agree, I would have never considered Trump before now, but he may be the only way to smash the Uniparty and stop The Cheap Labor Express.
Trump doesn’t need the money. ¡Jeb! already has more than he needs. Cruz has some and will get more as long as he stays in the race. The rest are just delegate collectors for Yeb and will get what the GOPee thinks they need to give them to collect maximum delegates forYeb.
I turned it off before ramos came on. I knew I would see what you described. An angry chihuahua/rickyretardo mix.
The heads of Krauthammer, Will and Rove and others in grave danger of exploding at any moment.
I think he and Juan McCain should make some joint ads of the two walking along the border (like Juan did in 2010), vowing to "secure the border first" (as Juan vowed in 2008 and 2010).
Both equally believable on the issue.
Says a lot about the country, not?
When he was leading up to announcing, I was in the same camp. His "antics" since have given me a bit of respect for him. While not my first choice (my money goes to Cruz), I could vote for him with a clear conscience.
Ever since Reagan, the downward spiral has changed a lot of things.
And there will be people stupid enough to trust and believe him when he does it.
They’ll have to double down on his “unelectability”.
Uh oh. The faeces just became actualized into an independently-existing ontological state.
This is only the beginning. Trump’s immigration plan will attract blacks and working class libs. His lead in the polls will expand.
Only in Trump Mania World would a CNN poll (bashed in the past by conservatives) suddenly now be trusted.
What was bad and libbbbbberal (CNN) is now good and trustworthy!
But I thought that Limbaugh didn’t trust CNN?
I guess that was a Limbaugh in a previous incarnation...
And when he does, Trump will demolish him as a “telling you what you want to hear to get your vote politician who’s own brother and father had the chance to build the wall and didn’t”. At the same time, Bush’s uniparty chamber of commerce backers will be pretty ticked off at that kind of talk.
That could very quickly seal the end of his coronation.
I don’t know about you, but I have switched to CNN from any Fox Product which I simply will no longer watch.
I have watched, and counted on, Fox for YEARS.
Now I am done. They lost a customer, and I’ll find another place to find news. If I have to traslate from CNN, then that is what I will do.
Adios Fox. All Fox. Fox. Fox Business. Our local Fox affilate.
All of them.
You blew it bigtime Mr. Ailes.
Make it right.
Trump needs your support, and a fair Fox coverage team.
He’s not getting that.
That is very, very sad.
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