Republican 2016 Presidential Polls: Donald Trump’s Numbers Surges to Huge Lead

Two months before the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump finds himself in a familiar position: on top in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

At the CNN/ORC poll, Donald Trump is on top, with 36% of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents for him, while the nearest candidate is 20 points behind him.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has jumped to second place with 16 percent support, while former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has dropped to third place at 14 percent. Florida Senator Marco Rubio was fourth at 12 percent.

Former Republican Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who was a closer adviser to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, said while Trump has clearly locked in a solid bloc of supporters, the majority of GOP voters are still up for grabs. 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.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who also opposed the phone data collection program, told reporters at the Cedar Rapids event that collecting more data would only provide a “false sense of protection”.

If you disagree, go look at some of the eye-popping numbers Trump has banked when Republicans are asked who they trust most on the economy. Rubio is also up slightly, gaining 4 points – an increase within the poll’s margin of sampling error – since the last CNN/ORC poll. Trump’s recent remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition are just one more demonstration of this reality – and Jews throughout America should take note, and be cautious. That has the GOP establishment in a state of true panic with the idea of either Trump or Cruz. Exit question via Logan Dobson: Should we take a poll seriously that assumes 48 percent of all registered voters are going to vote in a Republican primary?

CNN Political Director David Chalian says “What’s going on is total Donald Trump dominance over the Republican field”.

According to a CNN report, Trump garnered both the “broadest support and his widest lead in any national live-interviewer telephone poll since he announced his candidacy in June”.

“I’m a negotiator like you folks were negotiators”, the controversial candidate declared to his audience at the Republican Jewish Coalition, as he explained that he would broker a stronger nuclear deal with Iran than the one concluded earlier this year.

Most Republicans see Trump to be the candidate who could win the elections next November, with 52% saying he has the best chance.

Support has been growing for Cruz and Rubio as the campaign moves along, partly because of how well they did in the candidates’ televised debates.