Quinnipiac poll: Donald Trump surges in GOP, but would lose to Democrats

But as a Republican presidential candidate, Trump’s plan is now simpler: Repeal Obamacare. It is easy to cast aspersions and ridicule nearly everything about the Donald’s shoot-from-the-hip campaign from his inflammatory and offensive epithets about Mexicans, his over-simplified Wolman Rink strategy for the middle east, his arrogant diatribes against the Chinese (his best customers) his self-aggrandizing insults of all politicians and his mocking distain of traditional media.

The presidential primaries are minefields for the incautious, and Trump is not a cautious man. And it is hard to see how, in a two-man race against the favorite of the Republican establishment, he could win enough primaries, caucuses and delegates to capture 50 percent of the convention votes.

Though poll respondents said the most important quality in a candidate is that they be honest and trustworthy, front-runners Trump and Clinton fare the worst by that measure, at least among general-election voters.

The Times compared Trump’s considerable sustained support to that of 2012 Republican candidate Herman Cain, following allegations of sexual harassment against him. Bernie Sanders, the socialist challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

And when asked about whether he would deport undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S.as children, Trump fumbled and said, unsure, that “it’s a tough situation” and “it depends”. Donald Trump will make the noise, increase interest in the Republican debates and worry the nation that an egomaniac will become the GOP candidate. “It seems that Trump has stolen the New Jersey governor’s telling-it-like-it-is thunder”, Murray said in a statement.

According to the Quinnipiac poll, when Trump was put up against any of the three leading Democratic candidates, each of them beat out the New York businessman in a head-to-head poll.

Most Americans believe Trump is a horse’s behind, but he may just be a Trojan Horse for a Republican Party still trying to define itself.

And unless Hillary self destructs, something not entirely out of the realm of possibility, Democrats are now left with no one they can get anywhere near as excited about as they did with Obama in 2008.

“I want to try to help those people“. But the liberal is widely considered to have tipped Florida and perhaps New Hampshire to Republican George W. Bush. Clinton leads Walker 44-43 percent, another tie. There is no consensus that he cost Bush the election. For the couple of months that Ross Perot quit the presidential race in the summer of 1992, Clinton actually increased his lead over President Bush.

AP Photo/Ivan SekretarevIt takes a lot of money to make a consequential independent run for the White House.

Longtime GOP donor Fred Malek estimates the cost of a serious third-party campaign at $500 million and doubts Trump would plow that much into an outside effort. “By using his considerable wealth, his celebrity status, and his mouth to draw attention to himself, rather than to raise awareness of the issues facing America, he has coarsened our political dialogue and cheapened the electoral process”, it wrote of Trump. “And you know what, if I lose votes over that, or if I don’t get a nomination over that, that’s just fine with me“. “What’s more, the fact that he’s not bankrolled by special interests and lobbyists is a very powerful message in today’s environment”.

-“I want to run as a Republican”.