Polling snapshot: Heading to New Hampshire, poll overload

Trump has been criticized by some of his rivals for failing to spend enough time in the state and largely foregoing the kind of one-on-one campaigning that has always been a hallmark of the state. Marco Rubio, hasn’t been tested in a way that the governors running for president have, leaving him unqualified to be president. Party leaders said the audience was mostly Republican activists, not donors. “But they’re also hungry, they’re hungry for solutions”, she said after congratulating Sanders on his win. Just below Trump though, there are four candidates – Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, and Bush – that are separated by just 5.1 points in the polling average, which essentially amounts to the margin of error in most of the recent polling.

The poll was taken before the New Hampshire debate where Sen.

Republican John Kasich, the OH governor, would actually enjoy the biggest boost from undeclared voters if they turn out in high number because it would improve his position the most.

Donald Trump responded to Jeb Bush labeling him a “loser” by saying the former Florida governor is “a stiff who you wouldn’t hire in private enterprise”. Trump has the most support at 28%, and Florida Sen.

Trump also dismissed Bush’s assertions that, despite their primary fight, he and former colleague and protege Marco Rubio were still “friends”.

The victor of the Iowa caucuses, Cruz, a senator from Texas, mostly stayed out of the fray.

Bush’s campaign debuted a new ad questioning Kasich’s conservative credentials, while an outside group backing Rubio pulled an ad attacking Cruz and replaced it with one assailing Bush.

That should benefit Clinton, she added, though she acknowledged Vermont Sen.

And now, fully 60% of likely Democratic primary voters say that either Sanders or Clinton would be OK, up from 52% at the start of the tracking poll. “Anybody who comes up to me whether it’s a current supporter or someone new signing on, or even undecided voters, said how important the debate was”. The Arizona Republican said waterboarding had stained US honor without advancing national security, and he urged the candidates to remember the “inalienable rights” embedded in American values.

Rubio did best in the CNN/WMUR poll taken between February 4 and February 8 (the debate was on Feb.6), getting 17 percent of the vote.

“People have every right to be angry”.

But the former president told CNN that Sanders is fair game. “I mean, this guy is a nervous wreck”. “It’s tough to figure out how they get up to him at this late date”. Shout it out because I don’t want to-OK, you’re not allowed to say, and I never expect to hear that from you again.

“Not surprised; that’s who he is”, the New Jersey governor said Tuesday of the Rubio town hall moment Monday where the senator followed a sentence saying “we know how hard it is to instill our values in our kids, instead of the values they try to ram down our throats” with this similar sentence – “In the 21st Century it’s become harder than ever to instill in your children the values they teach in our homes and in our church, instead of the values they try to ram down our throats in the movies, in music, in popular culture”.

The poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, shows Trump up with 31 percent support. Marco Rubio is second with 17 percent, and Ted Cruz is third with 14 percent.

Sanders’ campaign has gone even further with its talking points for volunteers.

“There isn’t anyone on this team that doesn’t think we haven’t done as much as we possibly could do”, Kasich said.

Sanders, at his own raucous rally, said his victory sent a message “that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from ME to California”.