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And as Greg Sargent has been diligently pointing out, there’s a more satisfying explanation for why Trump is so stubbornly popular among Republican base voters: they really like his anti-immigrant proposals and promises to deport all undocumented immigrants. Basically, their poll is saying 43.6 percent of all Americans adults are voting in a Republican primary nationwide.

Data composed by CNN also shows the bombastic real estate mogul is up an impressive nine points over the last month, as his advantage of connecting with GOP voters on issues they deem as most important continues to pay dividends. And it’s why the Republicans picked up a few extra Senate seats in 2014 (notably in North Carolina), where they were projected not to win in all the polls.

“Every time things gets worse, I do better”.

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.

But to some voters in New Hampshire, where retail, face-to-face politics is a cherished tradition to be flouted at a candidate’s peril, Rubio has yet to engage as deeply in the state as residents here would like.

These are darks days for country and especially the Republican Party.

The Prince William County fairgrounds in Manassas, Virginia, rocked with energy as roughly 2,500 people gathered to hear a speech from Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. We consume too many of them, too often. It is hard to gauge their reliability. Conservative news site Newsmax recently noted Cruz is escalating his hawkish rhetoric as he gains on Trump in the polls.

And lastly, there is the matter of passion. The oldest president to date was Ronald Reagan, who was almost 70 when he took office, and most presidents start the job in their 50s.

Raleigh, NC (CNN)Donald Trump won’t say what he would do to terrorists in this country because it would get him in “trouble”. That’s greater than the percentage of voters who chose Carson (26 percent), Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seem to have become the two titans that will likely fight it out for the GOP Presidential nomination. Marco Rubio who has earned 12 percent, with no other candidate finishing in the double digits.

I’m going to take a leap and say that “minds made up” correlate with passion.

Trump’s remarks drew the most attention, yet they weren’t the only head-scratching moments from the event, which featured 13 different candidates.

Republicans are having trouble taking on Trump not only because they welcomed his support in the past and not only because they have often embraced (in a less colorful and direct way) numerous themes he is accenting, but also because they have delivered next to nothing to their loyal white working-class supporters.

This article was written by Ed Straker, senior writer of NewsMachete.com, the conservative news site.

Such a lack of trust, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, might be astonishing if we were not already accustomed to hearing about it – about our politicians in general and about these two candidates in particular.

After the question-and-answer session, Dubois, the retiree, said she came away impressed by Rubio’s “nimble” elaborations.