Trump Leads Latest Poll by Large Margin

Three candidates cluster behind Trump in the mid-teens, including Texas Sen. All other candidates are polling at 2 percent support or below.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was at 4 percent, ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who tied former Hewlett-Packer executive Carly Fiorina at 3 percent.

According to the poll Trump leads the Republican field nationally with garnering 36 percent of the Republican primary vote. Rubio is also up slightly, gaining 4 points – an increase within the poll’s margin of sampling error – since the last CNN/ORC poll. Broad majorities of Democratic voters report that they trust Clinton most on foreign policy (74%) and handling ISIS (59%), and as best able to handle the responsibilities that come with being commander-in-chief (64%).

Those figures are largely in keeping with a recent online Latin Post poll, which found Trump at 33 percent, Cruz at 16 and Carson and Rubio at 12 and 10 percent, respectively. Among those without college degrees, Trump holds a runaway lead: 46% support the businessman, compared with 12% for Cruz, 11% for Carson and just 8% for Rubio.

“When you’re leading in the polls, I think it’s too big of a risk to not do the debate”, Trump told The Washington Post Thursday at a Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. “They didn’t tell the authorities”, Trump said.

GOP Voters Convinced Only Trump Can Win General Election?

While speaking at a Johnston gun shop, Cruz said Americans need a president with a clear objective to defeat terrorism, saying President Barack Obama isn’t effectively leading the nation.

The poll was conducted before the shootings in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, carried out by a man reported to have been radicalized and his wife.

Trump, who was at 24 percent one month ago, has topped almost all Republican polls since July.

List also said a Trump victory will cause long-term damages to the Republican Party.

Meanwhile, a whopping 47 percent of all GOP voters think the government should move on a plan advocated by Trump to deport some 11 million immigrants. Republicans are more likely than others to see a deportation effort as helpful to the economy (44% think it would help, 30% that it would hurt).

Trump did not elaborate except to say that he’ll have a statement coming in the next week on the topic.

The CNN/ORC poll was conducted from November 27-December 1.