Donald Trump’s popularity continues to soar

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) comes in second among Republicans with 24% of support, up eight points from Quinnipiac’s previous poll. Sen.

Half of voters said they would be embarrassed to have the Republican businessman as president, while more than a third said they’d be embarrassed if the former secretary of state took over the White House, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released Tuesday.

Clinton leads Sanders for the Democratic nomination by 31 points – reaching 61 percent support, her highest in nearly two months of polling.

The latest national poll showed Bush with 3 percent, along with Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

“We have a guy who has stood up to [Republican Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell”, Levin said of Cruz in light of Trump’s comments, “who is viciously attacked in every liberal newspaper, every liberal outlet, by the establishment, who led the fight against ObamaCare”.

Bush has recently been more willing to talk about Trump, projecting himself as a serious alternative to the GOP front-runner while calling the real estate mogul a “bully” who needs to be confronted.

Currently, Ted Cruz is the center of the race.

Last week, the trend seemed clear: After an NBC/WSJ poll showed a pretty tight GOP race, several other nationwide surveys served up big leads for Donald Trump – suggesting that NBC’s results must have been an anomaly. Forty-seven percent of independents said they would be embarrassed by Trump, but 44 percent of Republicans said they would be proud of him.

“Hillary Clinton tops him”. Their last pre-debate poll showed Trump at 27%, Rubio at 17% and Carson and Cruz both at 16%. Bernie Sanders hammers him and Sen. Six in 10 female voters said they would be “embarrassed” to have the billionaire as their president compared to four in 10 male ones. Ted Cruz is snapping at his heels. “Can a candidate that half the American electorate thinks is an embarrassment win in November?”

Additionally, 67 percent of those questioned – regardless of political affiliation – say Trump does not have the experience to be president and 53 percent say he does not have a good chance of winning in the general election.

The survey included 508 Republicans with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points and 462 Democrats with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.