Breaking: Trump Leads GOP Field; No Slump After Attacks On McCain
Source: Morning Consult
With just two weeks to go before Fox News hosts the first Republican presidential debate of the 2016 cycle, real estate mogul Donald Trump looks increasingly well-positioned to claim center stage. A new Morning Consult poll finds Trump leading the Republican field with 22 percent of the vote, well ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who clocks in with 15 percent, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in third place with 12 percent.
No other Republican breaks into double digits. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson receives 8 percent of the vote, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 7 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) at 6 percent and Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) at 5 percent. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) are tied at 4 percent apiece.
The Morning Consult survey, conducted July 17 through July 20 among 1,978 registered voters, includes a subsample of 754 self-identified Republican and Republican-leaning voters who say they will participate in the partys presidential nominating contest, for a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. There is no evidence that Trumps numbers have slumped after comments he made questioning Sen. John McCains (R-Ariz.) war record. Though most of the rest of the Republican field and even the Republican National Committee loudly criticized Trump after he made the comments on Saturday morning at an event in Iowa, voters interviewed afterward werent any less likely to say they support him.
In fact, Trump has actually gained ground since a Morning Consult poll earlier this month, when he trailed Bush by a 19 percent to 17 percent margin. This week Trump is the second choice of 12 percent of voters, behind Bushs 18 percent. But both this weeks and last weeks polls suggest Trumps ceiling is lower than other candidates. Republican voters have a broadly favorable impression of candidates running for their partys nomination; 63 percent of self-described Republicans have a favorable view of Bush, while 27 percent see him unfavorably, for example.
Read more: http://morningconsult.com/2015/07/trump-leads-gop-field-no-slump-after-attacks-on-mccain/
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Should I have?
JI7
(89,262 posts)who let a black man become president.
i mean these are people who are supporting TRUMP for president, do they really give a shit about how veterans are treated ?
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)Is it a big enuf portion for the nomination?
The primary process on both sides is so convoluted..
He might be the brightest in the room
William Seger
(10,779 posts)... if the poll had included who Democrats want Republicans to nominate, I wonder if he wouldn't have won that one, too.
V0ltairesGh0st
(306 posts)How do we live in a world where this loud mouth fool is leading in the polls, and this many are becoming his voter base ?
Promethean
(468 posts)because republicans don't care. This is telling about the personality of the average republican voter and the pols are responsible for creating this base. They have spent ages encouraging people to be xenophobic, zero empathy, strength obsessed, anti-intellectuals and it is now showing with how they respond to to Trump. Hes hes hitting all the big points.
Xenophobia: "Mexico is sending all their murderers and rapists" Check!
Zero empathy: "I am a rich businessman. (that screws over other people for a quick buck)" Check!
Strength obsessed: "He was captured. I support the soldiers who aren't weaklings" Check!
Anti-intellectual: "I don't understand what you just said in that tweet but I know you insulted me so I'm just going to call you stupid" Check!
bucolic_frolic
(43,266 posts)He sounds exciting in a field of dour, moralizing (theirs), reactionary suits.
It is telling that the only other with fresh ideas, however much one
despises them, is Walker.
Trump-Walker might be a dream ticket for both political parties.
Sarah Palin with a Wall Street MBA attitude but without John McCain.
Democrats can hope that nothing changes!!!
Zynx
(21,328 posts)He's almost a painfully doctrinaire conservative who has never broken with his party on a single thing in his life.
Forgive me for asking, but do you know anything about him?
bucolic_frolic
(43,266 posts)as he moves the pendulum steadily to the right. He's no traditional
business-centered MBA who endorses the status quo and stays there.
He rips through the established playing field. He's the most radical element
of the GOP that makes changes wherever the Tea Party and Kochtopus
likes. His fresh ideas are radical right. We don't like them but he's creating
energy with them as he drives the van over a cliff. The word "fresh" is not
an endorsement. It's a description of how voters perceive his message.
tanyev
(42,606 posts)Frances
(8,547 posts)Trump has totally replaced her as the Republican mean person
lancer78
(1,495 posts)the honey badger of the republican party.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)real estate and florida real estate is Jebbies investment area too. They may not have gotten along well for a long time.
Only Trump knows if he will quit at the last second and back one of the clowns he goes easy on.
In Iowa, Jan. 2015 Trump spoke against Romney or Bush running, and let Walker speak his Obama-is weak crap-line "We need leaders who will stand with our allies against radical Islamic terrorists," , without a peep from Trump.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)you will see that most of it was taken before the attack
on McCain, and before his talk about his religious belief.
Give it a few days and you will see it change. Attacking
vets and kind of dismissing religious rites, are way too
much for military personnel and for the evangelicals.
For once, I think, he chewed too much to swallow.