Poll: Trump Stretches Lead to 27 Points; Sanders 7 Points Behind Clinton

Newsmax ^ | 12 Feb 2016

[xzins]

The latest national poll by Morning Consult shows that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's lead has spiked by 6 points over second-place Ted Cruz, whose support remains flat.

The survey, released Friday, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, after Trump's win in the New Hampshire primary, also shows that a decline in the percentage of voters who support someone other than the six remaining GOP candidates or who haven't made up their minds.

Here's the breakdown:

•Donald Trump: 44 percent (up from 38 percent a week earlier)

•Ted Cruz: 17 percent (17 percent)

•Ben Carson: 10 percent (9 percent)

•Marco Rubio: 10 percent (15 percent)

•Jeb Bush: 8 percent (6 percent)

•John Kasich 4 percent (2 percent)

•Someone else 1 percent (6 percent)

•Don't know/No opinion 6 percent (8 percent)

[fortheDeclaration]

People are going to be surprised at the lack of support Hillary is going to get!

Sander's beat her on almost every demographic in NH.

And the Black vote isn't going to care about electing another Clinton.

[tacticalogic]

And the Black vote isn't going to care about electing another Clinton.

Especially if she ends up throwing Cheryl Mills under the bus to save her own sorry ass.

[CurlyDave]

...Trump claims his net worth depends on how he feels from day to day, and that his “Trump” brand has actual financial worth. The NJ Supreme Court bench slapped him on that idea and stated that even Trump’s accountants admitted that his “brand” has no financial value.

I think they are wrong on that. Try telling Coca-Cola that their brand name has no value. Or try telling GM that Chevrolet and Cadillac have no value as brand names.

[apocalypto]

After the damage B. Obama has done, many of us are not looking for the perfect candidate and not for Mr. Nice Guy but for somebody who puts America first and attacks PC and the invasion of this country.

Russia is not accepting Syrian immigrants, and Saudi Arabia is not accepting their fellow Muslims. Why should we accept these undesirables who hate us? I want somebody who says NO to ISIS's secret weapon.

[PTBAA]

An interesting tale, but hardly moral equivalency.

[VideoDoctor]

Who would that be for you?

People like Ben Carson and Franklin Graham to Peyton Manning come to mind.

To be very honest I would want to leave that to, if he's nominated, Mr. Trump. WHY?

His choice would tell me even more about his own persona and insight. I TRUST Trump might even surprise everyone.. and in a very POSITIVE way.

[SeaHawkFan]

Trump’s own accountant admitted for the purposes of financial wealth, the “Trump brand” has no value. It did not say his brand didn’t have value, just not for financial purposes.

There is a difference.

If you think the court is wrong, why don’t you just call them and ask them to change its opinion and let me know how that works out.

[9YearLurker]

I would simply enforce our more-than-reasonable laws—and thus none of them would be eligible to return.

But you, of course, are not in line for the presidency, whereas Trump is.

[Thibodeaux]

The outsitters will not be conservatives but sour grapes ner do wells

[Luircin]

So, 6% more and maybe we can put to rest the ‘X% of people are against Trump!’ tripe.

Cruz would need to capture 34 out of 39% of the non-Cruz-non-Trump voters. That’s 87% of the votes currently belonging to all the other candidates.

[wmfights]

Pick a side. That’s all that’s on the menu

If all that is being served is crap, I'm not eating.

[TigerClaws]

Cruz was a citizen through the naturalization process via an Act of Congress.

Those rules have changed over the last few hundred years.

Cruz was not a NBC. He was a naturalized American citizen.

[kabar]

First Hillary has to get the nomination and so does Trump. Until each party has its nominee, these polls are virtually meaningless. They are used by the MSM to select the GOP nominee.

[kabar]

Where is Trump going to get enough votes to get over 50%?

If he continues to have 44% or close to it of the vote, he will gobble up all the delegates. After March 15, it is winner take all, which means that Trump would get all the delegates from a particular state.

As long as the rest of the vote is split between the others, it is a cakewalk for Trump. McCain sewed up the nomination with only 33% of the vote.

[kabar]

Actually Cruz formally renounced his Canadian citizenship on May 14, 2014. He was a dual citizen while in the Senate.

[nikos1121]

God help us from posts like this one.

[topfile]

worries me with his demeanor.

I get your concern. Yet I have to ask myself just how programmed for political speak are we? I mean, often politicians speak that talk designed not to upset or offend our sensibilities. It's polite, but devoid of honesty.

Trump's a leader. He just doesn't have time to carefully craft his words and demeanor. Trump gets our attention and holds it. People respond to that kind of refreshing boldness after years of souless words from overrated politicians. So don't worry.

[fhayek]

Well said.

[GOPsterinMA]

“Did I miss any? ;-)”

Let’s see...

-”Slimey NYer with ‘NY Values’.”
-”He’s donated to RATS!”
-”Supporting him = the death of the USA.”

Blah, ba-blah, ba-blah, blah, blah.

And then there’s the “I’m a complete pussy cat” move a few of the Cruzbots have deployed where they either CC or mention in their posts a member of the Robinson family. “Oooooh! Take that!”

This election “was over” the night of the Iowa Caucus. Ok. Then NH happened. Hmmm, guess this race WASN’T over. And SC is looking like an even YUGER blowout win than NH. Hmmm...

Enjoy the “sour grapes” Cruzbots. You sowed ‘em, time to eat up.