Poll Reveals Trump Leads Splintered GOP Field In CT, Clinton Far

Our poll surveyed 389 Republicans and 369 Democrats.

The GOP hopefuls have leveled biting criticism of what they say is President Barack Obama’s failure to confront the Islamic State’s rise, particularly seizing on the president’s recent claim that ISIS has been “contained”.

In an interview with Yahoo News, Trump was asked if he would consider requiring Muslims to register in a database or giving them a form of special identification that referenced their religion.

Said CAIR’s Robert McCaw said in a statement, “Donald Trump and Ben Carson are contributing to an already toxic environment that may be hard to correct once their political ambitions have been satisfied”.

The other Republicans candidates have been less bellicose.

Mostly, and this was the case last week, the candidates argued predictably with one another … but not about how they would give Americans hope and make the nation stronger.

Trumps approach, which tends to be vigorous in tone but light on specifics, draws plenty of criticism even within the GOP. Trump has regained his lead among leaned Republican voters with high school degrees or less. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility, elevating fears of attacks in the USA and prompting calls for new restrictions on refugees fleeing war-torn Syria.

A new Bloomberg poll shows that Republican voters think former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has the right temperament to be president, but they believe businessman Donald Trump would be more effective in the White House.

In October, another firm’s poll showed Trump trailing Carson in Oklahoma, however Shapard points out that poll surveyed registered voters.

And while Trump may lead with Republican voters, overall a majority of adults polled from both parties said it would be wrong (63-27 percent) to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, a key component of Trump’s immigration plan.

According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Trump Card LLC has issued a memo to potential donors that its intended goal is to not change the opinion of Trump’s supporters in favor of another candidate, but to keep them “from voting altogether”. Rubio was again in second place in the survey among actual candidates, but he trailed Trump by 20 percentage points.

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Wednesday kept up his critique of rival Ted Cruz on national security, saying the Texas senator worked with Democrats to “harm our intelligence programs” by restricting the federal government’s bulk phone records collection program.

The controversy followed the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. Monday he began talking about how a few mosques in the United States had to be closed.

The Fox News Poll is conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R). “These people don’t believe that other politicians get it”.