Donald Trump, Ben Carson have months to decide on third-party runs

It appears that at least some Republicans feel that national safety considerations trump the US’s core values.

And he could also benefit from baggage carried by Trump and Cruz, whose friendly relationship seems increasingly poised to collapse. And that’s what mattered most to Republicans surveyed in a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Those differences may be due to the 6% margin of error for the Republican and Democratic subgroups, but it’s still unusual and somewhat contradictory. The latest controversy involving Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the country only generated more media coverage for his presidential campaign. Trump is supported by about 27 percent of GOP voters right now. He told me those are routine meetings. “I’d probably put him in the middle”. Like the other Republican candidates, Trump – whose daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism – has long worked to portray himself as a strong supporter of Israel.

Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and John Kasich have all called for the reinstitution of torture, illegal by USA and global law, embracing the savagery of the Bush presidency without recalling how the methods of that administration generated hatred and terrorism around the world. Not to mention that Trump’s bombast and self-obsession make just about any other politician look grounded, polished and temperamentally tame (no small feat if you’re Chris “sit down and shut up” Christie).

He said if the Washington Post report was true that indeed the Republican Party leaders were trying to make a deal on their own presidential nominee, “every voter who is standing for change must know they are being betrayed”. That poll had a big issue in the way it was conducted; it used Trump’s name in it, which could tend to spoil the results with an emotional response that might not be related to the question. Mr Trump’s leading competitor, Ted Cruz, trailed behind with 16 percent, CBS reported. There was brief discussion of the logistical challenges of running a national convention without a presumptive nominee, the attendee said.

She told the radio host she didn’t understand Carson’s response to the reports, saying the outcome of a brokered convention would be determined by the voters, not Republican Party leaders.

Unfortunately for Carson, likeability isn’t among the most desired attributes among Republicans in this campaign. Just 6 in 10 rate compassion as that important, and only half say it’s important for a candidate to be likable.

Fifty-five percent say “honest” describes him very or somewhat well and 43 percent say it describes him only slightly or not at all. It’s much better to wait.

As Trump bloviates and ad-libs like a Hollywood lampoon of a TV-age demagogue, his numbers have climbed or held steady with disturbing ease as he falsely claimed thousands of Muslims “filled the streets” in New Jersey to celebrate the 9/11 attacks and tweeted bogus statistics to assert falsely that most killings of whites are done by blacks. But that doesn’t seem to matter to the Republican electorate, which is deeply skeptical of the media. The story said several Republican power brokers argued that if Trump storms through the primaries, the GOP establishment must lay groundwork for a convention-floor fight in which the party’s mainstream wing could rally around an alternative.

In a recent New York Times article, statistics from PolitiFact are conveniently organized to help us visualize two things that are already well known: First, that reality has a liberal bias.