Trump Hits Widest Lead Yet Among GOP Voters In New National Poll

Twenty-seven percent said they support Trump calling for “a total and complete shutdown for any Muslim being allowed to enter the United States”, while 57 percent oppose the proposal. Marco Rubio, who moved up to 10 percent support and third place, and bad news for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who plummeted from 18 percent in October to 9 percent in this latest survey.

“The CNBC Millionaire Survey, which polled voters with at least $1 million in investable assets, found that among Republican voters, 26 percent supported Rubio”.

The gloves have come off in the battle between Donald Trump and his new top rival, Senator Ted Cruz.

“I don’t think he’s qualified to be president because I don’t think he’s got the right temperament”, Trump said of Mr. Cruz Sunday on Fox, referring to the senator’s unyielding tactics that have alienated even some fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill. “And, you know, if that is the case, then, you know, I’m out of here”.

A new Monmouth University Poll gives Donald Trump his most commanding national lead yet – 27 points – in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, with Ted Cruz coming in second.

Trump has continued leading in national polls – raising questions like whether Republican leaders will brace for a brokered convention – but he is facing a growing challenge from Sen.

Rubio’s overall PolitiFact record comes in at 14 percent true, 24 percent mostly true, 23 percent half true, 23 percent mostly false, 15 percent false and 2 percent trousers on Fire (one each from 2010 and 2013): Politifact.

“I think Cruz is the front-runner in Iowa and the reason is he’salways been a natural fit of the caucus-goers”, Iowa Republican strategist Craig Robinson told ABC News.

Trump made the same point on Sunday, saying Americans were living in fear of being attacked. In the Granite State, the establishment rift is even more evident: those five candidates are splitting up 41 percent of the vote, which would easily best Trump.

An undercard debate featuring four lower-polling candidates – Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki and Rick Santorum – will unfold before the main event, from 2300 GMT Tuesday.

Among that sample, 67 percent responded that they would feel either “enthusiastic” or “satisfied” if Trump became the GOP nominee, while 28 percent reported that they would be “dissatisfied” or “upset”. The Texas senator has surged ahead in Iowa seven weeks before the state’s 2016 caucuses. “What are you going to do about college debt?'” Ohio’s governor said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. It’s certainly still possible to stop Trump from winning the nomination, but that would be an easier task for voters if fewer people were running and the choices were more clear.

“I mean, this is what the Republican establishment would say, for crying out loud”.

Since Friday, Trump has taken aim at Cruz for opposing ethanol subsidies and alienating his colleagues in the Senate.