Trump gains, Carson slips, Cruz & Rubio climb in GOP race

About Donald Trump. About Ben Carson.

“I think that CNN has unfortunately led the way in this”, Greenwald said. Within the past month, Carson has opened up leads over Donald Trump as wide as 14 points in the state, while dancing around the national lead. Marco Rubio and 9 percent picked Texas Sen. He would have the support of 31 percent of Granite State Republicans compared with 15 percent backing Trump, the poll indicates.

The latest US political survey shows billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump is still leading the crowded field of candidates seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign never really got off the ground, but his advisers and staff don’t blame themselves or their candidate for the failure to launch. Still, even if that didn’t turn Republicans against Carson personally, the episode may have caused a few of them to doubt the wisdom of nominating him for president.

The new poll indicates that Dr. Carson is the preferred candidate of 25 percent of white evangelicals, which is a decline of 8 percent points since last month. How likely are Trump and Carson’s voters to choose Jeb as their fallback position? A Seventh-day Adventist, Carson regularly shares how his beliefs have shaped his life and his politics. “That’s not strength. That’s weakness”.

Trump, on the other hand, has been “almost dismissive” of religion, Burbank said. “Absolutely”, Trump replied. It is worth noting that Trump did not float either of these two ignominious, un-American proposals, but that he responded in the affirmative when they were suggested by both friendly and antagonistic media personalities. “I just don’t know about”.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Trump’s words were “outrageous and bigoted”. “That’s a quality Utahns value”.

In Iowa, SC and New Hampshire, voters who support the Tea Party and those who are more conservative express the most negative views of illegal immigrants.

In New Hampshire, only 27% of likely primary voters say Ben Carson is ready to be Commander in chief.

“We’ll have to see”, said UtahPolicy.com publisher LaVarr Webb, who writes a column for the Deseret News. Carson doesn’t talk foreign policy particularly well, nor does he seem well-matched for the tough guy role. He said that while “Islam itself is not necessarily our adversary”, Americans are justified in seeing threats from Muslim refugees and the USA shouldn’t “completely change who we are as Americans just so we can look like good people”. “The simplest fact about polling a presidential general election is this: early polls are much worse at forecasting the outcome than later polls”, he explained, since the people being polled don’t really have the same level of information that they’re going to have closer to the election, when they start actually paying attention to the election coverage. “Therefore, they’re really waiting to see who he officially endorses”.

The GOP primary contest – marked by raucous debates and occasional nasty exchanges – has not helped numerous candidates in the minds of Florida voters. Rubio, already endorsed by a number of Utah officials, including Rep. Mia Love, has often been cited as Romney’s choice.