Posted on 03/08/2016 7:36:25 AM PST by mandaladon
In the wake of Super Tuesday and Saturday’s contests, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio’s national numbers have remained relatively stable, though Cruz has moved into second place heading into a very significant period of the primary season. These results are according to the latest from the NBC News| SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll of 21,996 adults aged 18 and over including 19,051 who say they are registered to vote.
Though 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney publicly called on conservative voters to buck the current GOP front-runner, new national numbers indicate that more Republican and Republican-leaning voters than ever think Trump will win the GOP nomination. In the first week of the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Election tracking poll in late December, just half of Republican and Republican-leaning voters thought Trump would be the eventual nominee. In our latest week of polling, a full three-quarters now say they think he will win the nomination.
Over the past week, several prominent members of the GOP establishment community as well as other Republican candidates in the race have argued that many in the party have a very unfavorable view of Trump. While it is clear that Trump is viewed unfavorably by a large portion of the party elite, the more important question is what the rank and file think. We empirically analyzed this by asking respondents how they view the top three candidates in our poll.
Among all Republican and Republican-leaning voters nationally, the favorability ratings of the current three front-runners—Trump, Cruz and Rubio—are all above 50 percent. Rubio is viewed favorably by 62 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters; Cruz and Trump are tied with a 58 percent favorability rating.
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So what?
Ricky Bobby?
People need to understand the media is playing them. They write articles to make Trump supporters hate Cruz and vice versa. Freepers are even sucked in. The best the left can hope for is a brokered convention where neither Trump or Cruz is the nominee, so they want them to be virtually tied.
My the view here is splendid! From rather summit of Trump PEAK. ;-)
Agreed! Thank you.
Rubes has gained a little since January 1, Cruz is flat. Trump is kind of flat. Still, I thought as each of these other dozen candidates dropped out, their voters would go to Rubes or Cruz. But they haven’t.
Cruz is not the establishment, they hate him.
Why does he keep hiring them and taking their money..?
But they hate Trump more
Plus Cruz just hired a Bush.....
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