Posted on 11/14/2015 6:50:22 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
After a week in which he hosted Saturday Night Live and stood center-stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump is surging among Republicans likely to cast votes in the party’s presidential primary. According to the five-day rolling Reuters/Ipsos presidential poll, Trump has leapt some 17 percentage points among likely Republican voters since Nov. 6, when he was essentially tied with Ben Carson at about 25 percent.
Among all Republicans - not simply likely primary voters -Trump holds a substantial edge over Carson, at 34 percent to about 20 percent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Trump’s appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live earned the program its highest ratings in two years, with 9.3 million viewers tuning in. Then, on Tuesday, 13.5 million viewers watched the debate from Milwaukee broadcast on the Fox Business Network. It remains to be seen, however, whether Trump’s surge will hold in the wake of his comments at an Iowa rally Thursday night in which he tore into Carson, telling the crowd that Carson has a "pathological" temper.
"If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that,†Trump said. "If you’re a child molester, there’s no cure for that.†Trump then posted a video critical of Carson on his Instagram account Friday. The Republican establishment has long expected the outspoken billionaire to fade, and he has yet to give it the satisfaction. Trump has consistently held more than 25 percent of the support among all Republicans in the Reuters/Ipsos rolling poll for more than two months. The Reuters/Ipsos poll is also bad news for Marco Rubio, who is widely considered to be emerging as the establishment-backed alternative to Trump. Despite receiving rave notices for his past two debate performance, Rubio’s support has remained flat, with about 10 percent of likely Republican primary voters preferring him.
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DRIVE it HOME TRUMP, full speed ahead, and don't forget to bring TED CRUZ along for his Brilliant mind to help.
CEASE the moment TRUMP, stay off the small stuff.
What happened in Paris last night will likely put Trump in the Whitehouse. He knows what to do.
I am a Cruz guy, and while I do not agree with all of his positions, nor do I care for his style, I could vote for Trump in the general if he were the nominee.
Yes! It WAS epic. It was just posted by Fox on my Facebook page. (Ted Cruz on Fox and Friends this morning)
You could probably find it somehow.
I’m glad Trump’s over-the-top rant on Carson didn’t knock him out because we still need him, but Cruz is the better candidate.
If you want to think Ted Cruz was ‘just rephrasing Trump’ on his Fox and Friends appearance today, I guess you can.
Trump's attack on Carson is already working. Carson is sinking like a stone. He'll drop out before Christmas.
Look, I like Trump but if you maintain that he was ‘just answering a question’ about Carson during a 9 minute rant, that’s just crazy. Maybe pathological.
If he is elected with a majority of the popular vote then he will have a mandate to do what he is promising to do. Also since most of what he is promising is simply enforcing existing laws their is not much Congress can to to stop him. And we the people can help President Trump by sending him allies in Congress every two years.
No THAT is going to leave a mark on Rinse and Repeat Priebus and his GOPe comrades.
And especially now that we have the 1,000 Syrians just being dropped in New Orleans yesterday...
Thank you for the site for Trumps speech.
J.V. team;
We have ISIS under control;
REALLY???????????????????????????
You are redeemed in God’s eyes by salvation. Dorsnt mean you will no longer sin or have the same weaknesses. If Carson had actually been successful in one of attempted murders, he would not be running for president - redemption or not.
That was 10,000 Syrians that just landed in New Orleans, but Obama remember is sending 50 of ours over to Syria, that ought to help. If it don't he will send 50 more.
He may as well line those 50 up to a wall and execute them here.
All obuma did by saying he sent 50 of our ‘finest’ over there was put a target on their backs...
Trump has repeatedly said not to announce what your doing or going to do....why does obuma send signals to his ‘muzzie buddies’? To let them know he has got their backs....
Play word games if you will...they are not the same.
CEASE.....make that SEIZE....how embarrassing to self.
As in Seize the day..........not cease the day...gee whiz.
My interpretation is as good as yours.
42%!
How about that!
No more "fall back" on our clocks/s sort of.
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