Posted on 09/03/2015 10:59:09 AM PDT by mandaladon
Donald Trump has reached a new high in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
According to a Monmouth University survey released on Thursday, Trump takes 30 percent support nationally, a four-point gain over the same survey from before the first GOP debate.
Ben Carson is a distant second place in the poll, taking 18 percent support. The retired neurosurgeon has risen sharply in the polls over the past month. He was at only 5 percent support in the same poll from early August.
The rest of the Republican field isn’t even in the same ballpark.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) take 8 percent support each, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida) at 5 percent, and former businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee at 4 percent a piece.
Scott Walker is in freefall, falling into 8th place with only 3 percent support. The Wisconsin governor was in third place with 11 percent support in the same poll from before the first Republican debate.
Chris Christie, John Kasich and Sen. Rand Paul each sit at 2 percent support.
Trump leads in every ideological category. He’s the preferred choice among Tea Party supporters, and Republicans who identify as very conservative, somewhat conservative, and liberal.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Exactly, why send him somewhere he would be comfortable.
“Reward” him with an ambassadorship, but *not* to a country that is important or one he would be comfortable in.
Let him know where he stands in the pecking order.
Well, those ‘Trump’ bumper stickers have been on my car all summer now. I imagine with the heat, they’d be pretty hard to take off now anyway. So I’m good ...
Sez Pew, 48% lean Demagogic, 39% lean Pubbie -- among those who identify as one or the other. Gallup sez 43% (new high) identify as "independent" iow probably no party affiliation. That works out to 27.36% lean D, 22.23% lean R. The Quinnipiac poll that has Trump underwater at 59% unfavorable suggests that 32% of that figure comes out of the R and I columns, assuming 100% of D find him unfavorable (which isn't true). Beware of polls, polling, pollsters, Jeb's trolls, and online astroturf.
George Will is deeply saddened.
“Scott Walker is in freefall, falling into 8th place with only 3 percent support.”
Good....then it’s not all bad news.
“I don’t understand how Jebbie gets 8%. I want him driven down to zero percent.”.....
Doubt he will ever get to “zero”, remember the Bush family is pretty large.
Any bad day for Will, is a good day for Americans.
The wall of shame is rapidly enclosing on the FT Trump haters as their tirades of Beserk Trump Derangement Syndrome, aka, BTDS, sound like screeching liberals on tv.
They have made themselves into truly irrelevant trolls.
Neil Cavuto carried part of Trumps rapid fire press conference and he was great.
Indeed
Hee hee.
Two months ago, who would have had Trump/Carson, 1&2?
So anything can happen in the next five months.
The best news is that Jebbito looks dead.
Justice is served : )
I think his news conference was outta the park.
On target. Not sneering. Responsive to questions and with a bit of humor...
The Splitters for ¡Jeb!? are likely causing it. They’re not really in it, to win it, so they don’t care what their numbers are. Even at -%, they’ll still get a nice check, some how some way from Yeb and Rove.
JFK used to hold press conferences like that.
Look at how the Hildebea$t ropes off and controls her meetings with her mediots.
A bit of humor...
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