Donald Trump leads Republican presidential race with 25 percent: Reuters/Ipsos

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump will likely make the cut for the first Republican debate in Cleveland while a half a dozen will not. Nor is it lost on anyone that a recent uptick in juvenile name-calling and beyond-the-pale provocations would appear to be partly driven by some candidates’ desperate desire to get attention and boost their poll numbers.

Taken as a whole these tweets obviously don’t represent the full picture of why some people are lining up behind Trump.

Donald Trump’s habit of shooting off his mouth and provoking outrage isn’t slowing him down at all.

Trump also tops the “no way” list as 30 percent of Republican voters say they would definitely not support him.

Trump’s answer? “Oh, I’d think so”.

However, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, it seems that predictions about the end of Trump’s political aspirations were premature as he gains momentum ahead of next week’s first Republican debate. No one knows and that’s what makes the process so fascinating.

What this suggests is that Donald Trump would be happy to be the Republican nominee, but if he loses that battle, he will be happy to help elect Hillary Clinton, another super-rich Beltway insider.

Among the other findings by Quinnipiac were that Democrats Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen.

It is a huge jump for Trump, who announced his candidacy for the November 2016 election six weeks ago – and this despite the criticism political rivals leveled at him for remarks this month belittling the military service of Senator John McCain, the party’s candidate in 2008. The broader sample of 1,644 registered voters has a margin of error of ± 2.4 percentage points.

Trump questioned whether Clinton would even be able to continue her campaign due to her use of her personal email at the State Department. I’m old enough to remember when a B-movie actor (who had co-starred with a chimpanzee) actually became president, much to the consternation of the Republican establishment back then. And, suffice it to say, they are causing considerable consternation.

The ratings, she said on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River, may be less about actual support for the candidates than simple name recognition. Ted Cruz, tied at 5 percent, would likely join the discussion. Even if no other Republican launched a third-party bid, my guess is that there’d be a lot of party regulars who just couldn’t support Trump no matter what.

Trump loses to Clinton 36 percent to 48 percent. Trump inspires much stronger feelings in Republicans, but the most prevalent of those feelings is anxiety about the future of the party and the country. Trump calls an independent run “highly unlikely” but it depends “how well I’m treated” by party leaders.

2003-2004: Trump begins hosting the reality show The Apprentice on NBC, which he also executive-produces. Twenty-nine percent, however, said they are dissatisfied with the current line-up of Republican candidates.