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YOUGOV POLL: Most Americans agree Trump is a 'fraud' and a 'phony'
YOUGOV ^
| 03/08/2016
| Peter Moore
Posted on 03/09/2016 9:01:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Just over half of Americans agree with Mitt Romney that Trump is a 'fraud' and a 'phony', but Republicans disagree
As the Trump campaign maintained its strong momentum Republican heavyhitters Mitt Romney and John McCain blasted the frontrunner in unusually blunt language. Romney's intervention was particularly severe, calling Trump a 'phony' and a 'fraud', while John McCain said that Trump was 'dangerous'. Trump reacted in typical style, noting that Romney had 'begged' him to endorse his 2012 campaign.
A narrow majority of Americans (51%) agree with Mitt Romney's assessment that Donald Trump is a 'phony' and a 'fraud', though 31% do disagree. Unsurprisingly a large majority of Democrats (71%) agree that he is a fraud, along with many independents (45%). Half of Republicans, however, disagree with Romney that Trump is a fraud and a phony, though a third do agree.
The limited impact of Romney's intervention may, at least in part, be due to Romney's relative lack of popularity among Republicans compared to Trump. 57% of Republicans have a positive view of Trump, while 46% have a favorable view of Romney. The same percentage of Republicans, 46%, also have an unfavorable view of their 2012 candidate.
Republicans also narrowly tend to say that they would rather see Trump (44%) in the White House than Romney (39%). Overall, however, Americans would prefer a Romney presidency (43%) to a Trump presidency (31%) but this is largely due to most Democrats (53%) backing Romney over Trump. Among independents Romney only narrowly wins, 38% to 33%.
Full poll results can be found here and topline results and margin of error here.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fraud; lyingdon; phony; poll; trump; yougov
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To: ViLaLuz
Pretty sure the answer is corrupt liar.
For those who are not involved this election year could be a real stinker. Fraud and Phony or Corrupt and untrustworthy.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:09:14 AM PST
by
94Revolution
(Get it right this time)
To: SeekAndFind
Phoneys and frauds have saddled us with 19 trillion in debt. Let’s take a chance with changing over to a billionaire businessman for president. It can’t be worse than what we now have with the bonafide frauds currently in DC driving us off the cliff.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:09:26 AM PST
by
tflabo
(truth or tyrrany)
To: ViLaLuz
‘liar’ and ‘criminal’, most likely.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:10:32 AM PST
by
Zarro
(Ben Carson 2016)
To: SeekAndFind
Don’t care about their opinions. Care about their votes.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:11:26 AM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: SeekAndFind
Today’s poll:
Would you support or oppose legalizing marijuana in your state?
Probably not an unbiased group.
But keep trying you best.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:12:13 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Trump should sue the Republican Party for Breach of Contract.)
To: Charles Henrickson
Demonstrated once again last night with the "Trump steaks And Cruz's hot air ...
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:12:22 AM PST
by
stratboy
To: SeekAndFind
“A narrow majority of Americans (51%) agree with Mitt Romney’s assessment that Donald Trump is a ‘phony’ and a ‘fraud’”
But are those Americans likely voters? No way to know as they were not asked. Likely voters is all that matters.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:12:37 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: SeekAndFind
Amazing what lengths the establishment people will go to try to derail the American people’s choice....
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:12:38 AM PST
by
Wpin
("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
To: SeekAndFind
,.. and a few other unspeak able things.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:13:25 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: SeekAndFind
Half of Americans are idiots.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:13:40 AM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: SeekAndFind
Imagine them asking this question about Obama.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:13:42 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: SeekAndFind
The media has done such a wonderful job to get hil elected.
Good for you!!
What a nice world.
Bye America.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:13:53 AM PST
by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: SeekAndFind
Most Americans believed the lies about Ronald Reagan as late as early October 1980.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:14:57 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
To: SeekAndFind
Just over half of Americans agree with Mitt Romney that Trump is a 'fraud' and a 'phony', but Republicans disagree.So, republicans aren't americans. Got it.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:15:45 AM PST
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: skeeter
What if Trump picked Carson.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:17:18 AM PST
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: Blue Turtle
you should see it here in FL with he negative attacks on Trump. WOW the establishment is spending millions and I have never seen such a scale of attacks, even when Bush v Gore was on.
Proves the establishment can fight when they want, not against the left though, against the voters on our side
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:18:53 AM PST
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: tflabo
definition of insanity.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Seems electing another elected official lawyer form an ivy league school is insanity.
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:19:45 AM PST
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: Charles Henrickson
Doesn't matter where the stakes come from when they are cooked at a Trump restaurant they are now Trump stakes cooked by Trump chefs.
To: SeekAndFind
“YouGov is an international internet-based market research firm, headquartered in the UK”
Well, what would we expect from a bunch of Euroweenies, not to mention what does posting this drivel say about you, SeekAndFind??
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posted on
03/09/2016 9:25:13 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: SeekAndFind
Yes, but he’s OUR fraud and phony.
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