Donald Trump surges to first place in North Carolina

Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about immigration aren’t hurting him in the polls in North Carolina.

Jeb Bush had been previously leading in North Carolina, but has slipped in the polls considerably. He is followed by Jeb Bush and Scott Walker at 12 percent each, Mike Huckabee (11 percent), Ben Carson and Marco Rubio (9), Rand Paul (7), Ted Cruz (6), Chris Christie (5), Carly Fiorina (4), Rick Perry (2) and Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum at 1 percent each. PPP says Trump’s NC numbers are higher than the national average and the bulk of his support comes from voters on the far right.

In a statement, president of Public Policy Polling, Dean Debman said “Three weeks after his candidacy announcement, Donald Trump just seems to be getting stronger. It may be a few valuable time just before the unique carriers off, however it hasn’t yet still”. “They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems”.

Since the speech, the PGA Tour, Macy’s, Serta mattresses, Univision, NASCAR, and NBC have all cancelled business agreements with Trump. On the Democratic side Hillary Clinton still dominates the scene with support of 55 percent of voters compared to 20 percent for Bernie Sanders. He has a substantial favorability rating among those who call themselves very conservative, and is polling well among younger voters. Jim Webb pulled in 7% of voters’ support and Lincoln Chafee and Martin O’Malley each had 4% in the polls. It included 288 GOP primary voters and 286 Democratic primary voters, and those groups have margins of error of plus or minus 5.8 percent.