Donald Trump Climbs to 35 % Support in New National Poll

Rubio is leading the GOP pack with a 40% chance in the Prediction Market that he’ll win the nomination, and Cruz is second at 26%.

Cruz, who has been on a sharp upward trajectory in the polls in recent weeks, takes 24 percent of support in the Hawkeye State, according to a Monmouth University survey released on Monday. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) was in fourth place, at 9%.

This poll was conducted before the controversy over Trump’s statement about not letting Muslims enter the United States.

“I recognize that a great many folks in the media would prefer that anybody running for president engage as an ongoing theater critic criticizing the proposals of others”, he said.

“The Monmouth poll interviewed a sample drawn from registered voter lists that primarily comprised those who had voted in state-level Republican primary elections in previous election years”, CNN reported.

“Trump will need a huge organizational effort to get independent voters to show up in a contest where they have historically participated in small numbers”.

A new Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll survey released Wednesday found that the real estate moguls latest remarks are backed by 65 percent of these likely GOP voters.

Polling 437 Latinos, an MSNBC, Telemundo and Marist poll revealed 55 percent of Latinos have a “very” negative view of Trump, while 12 percent hold a “somewhat” negative opinion of the businessman. Just 18 percent say they’ve definitely chosen their candidate. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s 10 percent support has evaporated to less than 4 percent as he joined a group of candidates in single digits who would barely qualify for the December 15 debate if only judged by national polls. It’s also worse than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who is seen favourably by 45 per cent and unfavourably by 52 per cent of likely general-election voters. Outside of the top 4 candidates, i.e. Trump, Cruz, Rubio and Carson, no Republican candidate earned more than 2 percent support. “Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the unsafe threat it poses, our country can not be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life”, Trump said. Thirty-four percent of Latino survey respondents said they “don’t know the name” Cruz. And it was Carson who was in third place, at 16 percent.

When voters were provided with this additional information, support for the proposal remains essentially unchanged, with 64 per cent of likely Republican primary voters saying they favour the idea.

The data have been weighted to reflect U.S. Census figures on demographic variables.