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Ben Carson takes lead over Donald Trump in CBS-NY Times poll
Posted On Oct 27 2015
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A new Monmouth University poll shows retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson leading Donald Trump by 14 points in Iowa, a 6-point surge from last week’s lead.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida received 8 percent while former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, are each the choice of 7 percent of Republican primary voters. A new poll in Iowa shows Ben Carson opening up a double digit lead on Donald Trump.
After spending months touting his strong poll numbers in public events and media appearances, a slew of new polls have found Trump trailing Carson in Iowa, the crucial first-nominating state.
The Republican candidates will meet on the debate stage on Wednesday night, providing a third opportunity for them to differentiate themselves.
With this in mind, if these new results are a just a blip on the radar, it will soon be forgotten. Trump’s supporters, however, are more locked in with their support.
While the new national poll may signal a decline for the Trump campaign, he was crowing in Doral Friday about Florida. “Elect Trump if you want that”. Seven in 10 likely Republican primary voters have yet to say which candidate they’ll support. “It was one poll and a second poll”.
The most recent CBS/New York Times poll surveyed 575 Republican primary voters and carries a 6-percentage-point margin of error.
Now, even Christians who don’t support Carson are coming to his defense. Roughly four in five Carson supporters said they could still change their minds about whom to support, while more than half of Trump supporters said they had made their final decision.
Pastor Mike Demastus of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ said that Trump criticizing someone else’s faith is “laughable”. Since the book’s release, Carson has been seeing a rise in donations, a few small amounts from individuals and it has helped him to rise to the top of pack of Republican candidates and overtake Trump, the strongest personality in the campaign.
