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These results lie in stark contrast to Monmouth’s last Iowa poll, before the first Republican debate, which had Walker in the lead with 22 percent, while Trump had 13 percent, Carson 8 percent and Florina at 3 percent, according to CNN.

“However he does it, Trump will need to go after Ben Carson in fairly short order, and when he does, Republicans will choose Trump“. Both are Washington outsiders (a businessman and a neurosurgeon, respectively) who vow to shake up the establishment, as U.S. News & World Report has noted. According to the poll, 54 percent of all GOP voters believe President Obama is Muslim and only 29 percent believe he was born in the United States.

Trump, meanwhile, bests New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Kentucky Sen.

“These results mark a significant shake-up in the leaderboard from Monmouth’s Iowa poll taken before the first debate”, said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. Rand Paul each earned 2 percent, with all other candidates earning 1 percent or less.

Taking the fourth and fifth places were Senator Ted Cruz of Texas (9 percent) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (7 percent). Rubio rounds out the top five with the support of 5 percent of those surveyed.

Trump’s advantage cuts across ideological, tea party, age and gender lines, with Carson in second place in all subgroups. With one exception, Trump bested the nine GOP competitors the poll pitted against him.

I’m not the only person to note throughout Trump’s rise that his ridiculous blather was resonating with the Republican base because it was representative of the Republican base; his ideas weren’t all that new.

And in a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa released earlier this week, Trump cut the number of voters who said that they’d never vote for him in half.

The poll found that Sanders is the first choice of 30 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers, just seven points behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

But the real takeaway in the poll isn’t the relative standing of each candidate, which we already knew, but rather the underlying opinions held by each candidate’s supporters, and the GOP base overall. 2, surveyed 366 registered voters who identify as Republican or lean Republican.