Ridiculous. Your devotion to Trump has clouded your memory.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/28/politics/bush-leads-gop-field-poll/index.html
Jeb Bush is the clear Republican presidential frontrunner, surging to the front of the potential GOP pack following his announcement that he’s “actively exploring” a bid, a new CNN/ORC poll found.
Bush’s 10-point lead is a milestone for the potential GOP field — it marks the first time any prospective candidate has reached a lead beyond a poll’s margin of error in the past two years.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-surges-lead-gop-pack-new-2016-poll-msna623246
The NBC/WSJ poll measured 16 GOP candidates in our horserace question. And here are the 10 Republicans who make our poll’s Top 10 — the criteria being used for the first GOP debate in August — and the six who get left off:
Jeb Bush 22%
Scott Walker 17%
Marco Rubio 14%
Ben Carson 11%
Mike Huckabee 9%
Rand Paul 7%
Rick Perry 5%
Ted Cruz 4%
Chris Christie 4%
Carly Fiorina 2%
Donald Trump 1%. <————
Lindsey Graham 1%
John Kasich 1%
Bobby Jindal 0%
Rick Santorum 0%
George Pataki 0%
Trump announced in June 2015, by July he was leading that pack, we were the base of the party and you were left hugging your JEB 🌮 taco bowl 😃👍