Donald Trump continues to hold a commanding lead in the national poll

But in most polls, Trump’s national lead has stretched to new heights, with some recent surveys showing that more than 40 percent of Republican voters would support him today. Ted Cruz ought to “just admit in that he changed his mind” on quite a lot of issues, in accordance to Kentucky Sen. Following that pair is Marco Rubio with 12% support, Ben Carson with 10%, Chris Christie with 6% and Jeb Bush with 4%.

Asked whether they would be proud or embarrassed if Trump is elected, fully 50 percent of all registered voters suggested that they would feel ashamed, including 20 percent of Republicans, 47 percent of independents and 82 percent of Democrats.

Cruz says now the amendment was meant as a “poison pill” to kill the whole package, or at the very least as a way to expose that what Democrats really wanted was not to “bring people out of the shadows”, as they often claimed, but rather to grant citizenship to millions of future Democratic voters.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Sen.

Rubio and Cruz have been locked in a heated debate over their immigration records in Congress. Cruz accused Rubio of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants while Rubio said Cruz hasn’t been truthful about his past support for legalization.

Trump is seen as the candidate most qualified to handle the economy (52 percent) and most effective against the Islamic extremist group ISIS (49 percent).

“He sounds like he’s an Obama administration spokesman”, Continetti said in response, explaining how Trump and the president use similar rhetoric to describe America’s relationship with Russian Federation. “Sen. Bernie Sanders hammers him and Sen. Can a candidate that half the American electorate thinks is an embarrassment win in November?”

When matched against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Rubio has a two-point edge (45 percent vs. 43 percent), and Cruz and Clinton tie (45 percent). The survey of 1,627 likely voters from all parties was conducted between December 16 and December 21, with a credibility interval of 2.8 to 3.7 percentage points.

Quinnipiac polled 508 Republicans for a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points and 462 Democrats for a margin of 4.6 percentage points.