Donald Trump: ‘I totally won’ Republican Jewish Coalition forum

Talking Points Memo reports Graham is only polling at 1 percent, but is one of the few establishment GOP voices willing to discuss the recent trend of negative rhetoric.

Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines. Ted Cruz’s speech. Apparently, Cruz’s claim that the Republican party will succeed if it doubles down on wooing evangelical Christians was enough to enrage Graham so much that he went totally off-book. Cruz leads among college-educated voters with a 22% share, followed by Carson, Rubio and then Trump.

CNN reports that among college educated voters, “the race is a close contest between the top four contenders, with Cruz slightly in front at 22%, Carson and Rubio tied at 19% and Trump at 18%”. It’s Trump’s biggest lead in any live-telephone national poll.

According to the poll, 55 percent of voters believe Trump is the most trusted candidate to handle the economy and 51 percent believe he is the best to address the federal budget.

“ISIL loves Donald Trump because he is giving them an opportunity to bring people their way”, Graham said during a gathering with reporters following his formal speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Each of the candidates is strong on the issues that concern Adelson the most, chief among them protection of Israel, said his political adviser, Andy Abboud. The Forward, a Jewish-oriented news site, called Trump’s comments “cringeworthy.”

On foreign policy, Trump inches up to 32%, and among those who call terrorism an extremely important issue, 49% say they trust Trump most on ISIS.

Ted Cruz said Thursday that the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., may be “yet another manifestation” of “radical Islamic terrorism”, and that the attack underscores the fact that the United States is at war.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is greeted as he arrives at a campaign town hall meeting in Laconia, New Hampshire, on November 30, 2015.

Mr. Trump has been among the most staunch opponents of illegal immigration in the 2016 field, calling for mass deportations of illegal immigrants and for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. About half say such an effort would be harmful to the economy (47%), while about 3 in 10 say it would help (29%).

On Thursday, Trump referenced his massive rally Saturday in Sarasota and compared his crowds not to any of his opponents’ – but to musician Elton John’s.

“Because right now it’s too easy, and I think we’re going to have to search ourselves as a society that we can take basic steps to make it harder, not impossible, but harder for those individuals to get access to weapons”, Obama said. Just last week, Trump reportedly mocked a disabled reporter, but his potential constituents turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to his prejudice again and let the numbers speak for them.

“I don’t want your money, therefore you’re probably not going to support me”, Trump said.

Republican voters remain more enthusiastic about voting than their Democratic counterparts, but the gains in enthusiasm that had emerged through October appear to have stalled. And Trump’s comments on Israel — particularly the billionaire businessman’s repeated questioning of its commitment to making a peace deal with the Palestinians — sparked an aggressive backlash from his Republican rivals.