Posted on 01/24/2016 11:24:29 AM PST by Nachum
A new Fox News poll of Iowa shows Donald Trump surging to a strong 11-point lead in the caucuses taking place next week. With just one week until the first votes of the 2016 primary are cast, Trump leads second-place Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% 34-23 percent.
The last two Fox News polls of Iowa, conducted in early January and early December, has Ted Cruz with a slim lead over the GOP frontrunner. In the last two weeks, according to the poll, Trump has gained 11 points and Cruz has lost 4 points.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 79% remains in a distant third place with 12 percent, but he has lost 3 points since early January. No other candidate has support in the double digits.
The Fox poll has a fairly large 5-point margin of error, higher than its last two polls, but the underlying trend towards Trump is unmistakable. One major factor helping Trump is that Republican voters in general are warming to his candidacy.
In early January, almost one-third of Republicans, 31 percent, said they could not support Trump if he became the nominee. Today, that number is down to 20 percent
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This is exactly what some Freeper(s) predicted months ago, the pollsters have under-reporting support for Trump but as Iowa draws near, lest the polls lose all credibility, the polls were going to show a big jump for Trump. My hat is off to the Freeper(s) who showed such prescience.
I have some reservations about Trump, but I think at this stage everyone needs to concede one point: he’s a very effective puncher and counter puncher.
He’s taken Jeb down. After ripping Hillary and Bill, Hillary’s numbers dropped sharply. He’s getting the better of Cruz. Carly, remember her, she’s basically gone. I might have missed somebody.
The only poll that counts is the cacus ...
Too funny.
I don’t like how Trump handled it but it did expose Cruz weak side.
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I like Trump but have personally cringed through the primary process. New York real estate obviously toughens you up. Conservatives are very nice rule followers. Maybe just this once, with Trump, we have a ferocious fighter who will show up to a gun fight with ...a Howitzer.
if he wins IA and NH...which would be unprecedented (except for things like Reagan 84, but that doesn’t count)....
you could well be right.
And THAT would be extraordinary. Sort of the nominee by unanimous consent, or something
:-))
you didn’t mention Gilmore....
Great News!
Too many people ask the wrong question. “Is Trump a conservative?” The question should be “Is Trump conservative enough?”. If John McCain and Romney were conservative enough that answer has to be “Yes”. I would assert even further that based on the criticism of Trump over changing positions on issues that he and Romney are not much different outside of Trump’s clear America First platform, demeanor, and fight. Also Trump never implemented state run healthcare in such a way that it was used as the foundation for Obamacare so in that extent I’d rate Romney the less conservative because he actually proved it in the way he governed.
If all Trump offered was the standard consultant fed drivel he’d be as impotent as Romney ultimately was. Trump instead has taken substantial risk to his business deals and brand to run for President. He could’ve chosen more politically correct ways to make his statements but instead went full on out the gate attacking illegal immigration directly. He has lost real business because of this he’s been maligned as an xenophobe, racist, and bigot. If there is any measure of genuine conversion to a cause or ideology it is represented by the ability to take on the cost associated with it and Trump indeed took that on not knowing in any real way that his bold approach would work in a society used to receiving politically correct homilies.
Trump of course is more than conservatism and for any doubts one has about his personal convictions one can not with any credibility attack the conservatism of the policies he’s put forth and the patriotic conservative theme of his campaign “Make America Great Again”. No one can deny his appeal to the millions of Americans who have over time quit believing in America or its dream. They’ve seen their jobs and opportunities drain away to foreign lands as they increasingly must compete for service level jobs with work visa holders and illegals for what amount to stagnate and low wages.
Trump takes up the plight of the hurting disaffected forgotten men and women, he doesn’t just talk down to them telling them how those coal jobs that the EPA killed were really a good thing or that moving jobs to China is good for America with talk about how it improves wages and profits at the top but leaves the bottom and middle income worker wanting. Trump tells these people that a brighter America is on the horizon that together we can “Make America Great Again”. This message touches the souls of these people and he doesn’t even need to tell he feels their pain.
When is Trump filling stadiums with thousands many who haven’t voted in years with a clear conservative pro America first message who can find fault with it and call themselves a true conservative? I certainly can’t and its shameful that those who should know better are putting small ball politics above the big picture. Donald Trump is a vessel of a bloodless revolution. He is waking up the long asleep spirit of America triumphant.
One can criticize Trump all they want on his past but when they attack his pro America conservative message as hate they reveal more about how their conservatism is lacking than Trump’s.
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