Posted on 03/18/2016 7:36:14 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A new poll out on Thursday obliterates the latest mainstream media narrative confronting billionaire Donald Trump: That he can’t get majorities, but can only get pluralities, in election results.
The poll of New York state, conducted by Boston’s Emerson College, has Trump dominating his only two remaining competitors in the Empire State with 65 percent of Republicans there backing him. Only 12 percent back Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Trump’s closest competitor, and just one percent support Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The poll was conducted over three days, March 14 to March 16, during two days of which Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% was still in the race. Rubio dropped out on the evening of March 15 after an abysmal performance in his home state of Florida, where Trump walloped him by more than double digits.
In the portion of the poll conducted before Rubio suspended his campaign, the pro-amnesty Floridian got just four percent in New York. Nineteen percent chose someone else or were undecided.
Trump’s favorables are also higher than Cruz’s or Kasich’s ratings. “Trump has the highest favorable ratings with GOP voters, 71%/23%, followed by Cruz at 52%/44% and Kasich at 54%/34%,” the polling release states. “Consistent with other primaries, Trump supporters are the most loyal, with 89% of those who see him favorably planning to cast their ballot for him. In contrast, only 21% of Republicans who have a favorable opinion of Cruz say they will vote for him.”
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Uniting the Deep south and portions of the NE would be an amazing feat. Both of these regions of the country recognize and respect a fighter. Of course, some historians do compare this election cycle to Andrew Jackson’s time. ‘Ole Hickory” was a fighter.
Do you know how many delegates New York has...
Because:
1) They think you’ll fall in line and vote for who they say; and
2) They don’t care if Hillary wins, as long as the DC gravy train continues.
The only reason Kasich is still in the race is to force a contested convention.
Wait wait wait...you think that the GOPe is going to use Cruz to deny Trump an outright victory, then turn around and offer him the VP spot?
They’re going to turn around and form a Bush/Kasich ticket or something like that. The GOP hate Cruz, they’re just using him and he’s got too much of an ego to realize it.
Gee, looks like The Donald kinda cracked that ceiling, don’t it?
Like a Saturn V going through the clouds.
Wow, a republican candidate has a chance to sweep New York in he general and you think he is going to lose the rest of the country? Wow, pessimistic much?
I am sorry to tell you but New Yorkers are tribal. They will vote for a native son over a shrieking, lumpy mess squeezed into a pantsuit. Also the email scandal will not be buried, Trump is no quisling “conservative” who wets his pants everytime the “Old Grey Lady” publishes an attack article. Trump will only double-down and the facts will be heard by the American people.
I don’t “think” they ARE going to do it, but it would not surprise me if they do. It would be a solution for them. The GOPe know that most Trump supporters would (holding their nose) vote for Ted if he got the most delegates. At this point it doesn’t seem like he will though.
So, as a way to both bring Teds people along, and keep Trumps people from walking in the other direction - they make a backroom deal with Ted. In the brokered they nominate someone like Ryan, and he sez right away that Ted will be his running mate - there ya go. Teds people are not super pissed, because at the least their guy is on the ticket - so that leaves Trump people. Who have stated all along they will vote for whomever is the nom. And the GOPe will claim that Cruz is a CONSERVATIVE who is HATED by the establishment - yet he is on the ticket, which shows the GOPe is “listening to the little people”. It would be a solution which they actually could sell.
It would be a kick in the teeth to everyone who voted in the primaries and to every candidate who ran. It would be a betrayal of the people, but that won’t stop established politicians. I count Cruz as “one of them”. I think his ambition is all-consuming.
Now, would Cruz agree to it? I think if he understood that without enough delegates for a clean shot as the nominee, it was his only shot at being on the ticket ... I happen to think he would go for it.
Beyond this, why can’t the GOPE see this means that Trump opens up New York and New Jersey for a win this fall?
They are stupid.
The seven remaining purple ones are definitely on the table in likely order of possibility: IN, NC, PA, OH, NV, MI, NM, added to FL and he wins easily. Add in any "Blue" states and he is over 300 and a great victory with a mandate that Congress cannot possibly refuse. If some of the other "Blues" get snagged from the (D)ummycrats then the White House will be renamed to the Trumpicana.
“And how about Kasich only getting 1% in the NY poll. LOL
The number was rounded up.”
I hear Kasich is going all out in New York and hopes to double his poll numbers.
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Now that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are!
-—This poll shows Trump losing to Hillary by 18 points in New York.
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The media will be reporting exit polling the day of the general, and ALL the exit polling they report will show Hillary crushing Trump. You can bet on it. All an effort to keep Trump supporters home.
After the election, they will have recount after recount after recount until they get the results they want, after all, “exit polling showed Hillary with a 15% lead”
We’re not going to stand for it.
Polls have came out that show Trump easily winning upstate. Upstate NY is the South without a Southern accent. The land of pickup trucks, beer and hunting and fishing. This Tar Heel lived there for years. It’s TRUMP COUNTRY!
Like a typical gopE, Cruz wrote off New York and the 47%.
He’s going to live to regret it. Trump’s numbers are skyrocketing in New York. (Why did he do that? SC wasn’t buying it!)
It’s also very beautiful! Upstate NY rocks.
>>Easy for the Jersey folks to get there too!
Isn’t that supposed to be “Joisey”?
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>>Trump needs the delegates to F-over the hated GOP Rinos.
Cruz can help do that, he can blow up the people that hate him too and ruin their idea of a brokered convention.
If he was truly a genuine outsider, he would, of course, do exactly what you describe.
So far, he hasn’t. One wonders why.
He’s in a position where, no matter what words he says, it’s the ACTION he takes that will show where his true allegiance lies.
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