Half of Voters Would Be ‘Embarrassed’ by Trump as President, Poll Finds

Ted Cruz is closing in on Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a new national poll released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University.

If Rubio, a Florida senator, were pitted against Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul would take 40 per cent support of Republican and independent voters to Rubio’s 34 per cent, according to the poll. Marco Rubio has 12 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson polled at 10 percent and the other candidates were all in the single digits.

Kyle Dropp, Morning Consult’s polling director, spoke about the results of the poll, stating that “voters are about six points more likely to support Trump when they’re taking the poll online than when they’re talking to a live interviewer”.

But this may change. I would go as far as to say that the big thing to watch right now, the big event, isn’t so much Trump and Cruz’s poll numbers and whether they’ll hold up as the increasing signs that the Republican party is beginning the process of embracing that outcome.

A new poll set for release Monday shows former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) lagging in a theoretical general-election matchup against Hillary Clinton, while Sen. Sanders has 30% support, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has 2%.

Of those, 41 percent said they may change their mind about who they would vote for.

The poll finds that Clinton and Trump are nearly equally seen as dishonest and untrustworthy by voters (59% Clinton and 58% Trump). Bernie Sanders hammers him and Sen. Another 24 percent would be neither proud nor embarrassed to have Trump in the White House. Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, the poll shows.

“Can a candidate that half the American electorate thinks is an embarassment win in November?”. The poll said 33 percent would be proud, 29 percent would be neither and 3 percent didn’t know or wouldn’t say. She fares slightly better in several head-to-head matchups with top-tier Republican candidates like Bush, Cruz, Trump, and Rubio. They surveyed 508 Republicans with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points and 462 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 4.6 percentage points.

The Quinnipiac poll of 1,140 registered voters was conducted December 16th through 20th and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.