Donald Trump maintains 20 point lead over nearest rival Ted Cruz

His overall average in RCP’s tracker has now reached a new high of 30.8 percent.

“I’m a negotiator, like you folks”.

During his unexpected five-month run atop the Republican field, Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination have argued he lacks depth and fluency on foreign policy. Here’s a choice bit on that point from CNN’s new data.

Republican voters are most sharply divided by education.

Among voters without a college degree, Trump’s lead is especially strong, with a 46% share.

Like Cruz, he appears to have improved his standing with Iowa voters, increasing his support by seven percentage points since the last poll, up from 10 percent in October.

That’s a good reason to think Trump’s strength will last into February.

Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines.

CNN/ORC should have picked up on the differences in the four polls that they’ve conducted over the past three months. Cruz sounds like a politician; he’s overtly evangelical, which, lord knows, Trump is not.

He doubled down on those comments Thursday in an auditorium packed with Israel’s most loyal supporters. The problem for him, however, is that the Florida senator doesn’t neatly fit into it. In fact, some conservatives have praised the notion of the GOP race boiling down to Cruz vs. Rubio. At the heart of his campaign is Trump’s argument that his experience in business and real estate would prepare him for negotiations with world leaders.

Even more say such a mass deportation wouldn’t be possible (81 per cent).

Trump also has massive leads when it comes to how much voters trust candidates to handle specific issues.

Trump isn’t leading the Republican pack by a marginal lead.

He predicted that in the end, “there will be a consolidation of those who don’t want him to be nominee”. Republican opinion on Trump’s “deport ’em all” plan is also complicated.

Earlier Thursday, the head of the Republican Party in Israel said that Trump should not not be the president of the United States. Ted Cruz has 16 percent, and Ben Carson registers 14 percent. Carly Fiorina did receive a brief bump in late September after the second debate, only to fall back to her current position in the low single digits. How come? I think this too is a matter of blue-collar versus white-collar, not in terms of economics but in terms of culture. “And they add to the contradictory picture of his personal finances that has emerged as his presidential campaign has gained traction – of a young man who struggled financially even as his personal income soared along with this political success”.

“A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal – whether or not Israel’s willing to sacrifice certain things”, Trump said.

The billionaire businessman was speaking at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Washington DC along with other GOP presidential hopefuls. Rubio and Carson are tied at 19%, and Trump is at 18%.

An unnamed Israeli official quoted by The Jerusalem Post said that Netanyahu will meet with Trump during his visit as part of Netanyahu’s policy of meeting all major presidential candidates.