Is This The End of Ben Carson?

In the previous Quinnipiac survey, Trump had 24 percent and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson 23 percent, well within the survey’s margin of error.

Rubio, a Florida senator, and Cruz, a Texas senator, have sparred over that issue in recent days.

In Quinnipiac’s poll last month, Trump and Carson had been locked in a statistical dead heat.

Marco Rubio surged to second place in December among the field of Republican presidential candidates, overtaking a slumping Ben Carson and coming within striking distance of Donald Trump’s top spot.

“It doesn’t seem to matter what he says or who he offends, whether the facts are contested or the “political correctness” is challenged, Donald Trump seems to be wearing Kevlar”, Malloy said.

Clinton at 46 percent to Carson’s 43 percent compared to Carson’s 50 – 40 percent lead last month.

Last month Trump claimed he saw on TV thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the terrorist attacks on September 11, an assertion nobody has been able to corroborate.

Donald Trump still dominates the Republican race, but Rubio and Cruz are in a dead heat for second.

While Cruz is looking to pull off a February 1 win Iowa, the first caucus state, Trump’s appearance in Georgia foreshadows the outsider’s longer-term strategy. So rather than reach out to that 16 percent of the population, Trump deliberately alienated them in the hopes of winning over white voters. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush languishes in fifth place with five percent, while no other candidate is above three percent. “Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth, partial birth abortion with taxpayer funding with no notification for parents in any circumstances”, Cruz said. By comparison, Trump and Carson have much higher unfavorable numbers, 27 percent and 13 percent, respectively. He’s down seven points in about a month.

Republican Party insiders are already starting to panic about the state of the race for their party’s presidential nomination. Fifty-nine percent of US voters say the real estate magnate is dishonest and untrustworthy, and 26 percent of right-leaning respondents indicated they “would definitely not support” Trump. Bernie Sanders, earning 60 percent to his 30 percent in a hypothetical primary matchup. “With this guy we could see the next Mussolini if Trump gets elected”, said Leslie, who emphasized that he appreciated that Trump has raised important issues for Republicans. The survey includes 672 Republicans with a margin of error plus or minus 3.8 percentage points and 573 Democrats with a margin of error plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.

In four hypothetical matchups between the leading Republicans and likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Clinton leads every candidate, though she has just a one-point advantage over Rubio, 45 percent to 44 percent.