Donald Trump Takes Carson Down

Donald Trump has raced to a commanding ten point lead in the latest NBC 2016 Republican presidential poll. His numbers are more positive among likely GOP voters, however, with 63 percent favorable compared to 32 percent unfavorable. In the wake of the terrorist attack in Paris last week, Trump doubled down on his vow to send Syrian immigrants back home if he were elected.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is fifth, with six percent, his lowest percentage during two years of surveys.

APPHOTO NVJL114: Republican presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson speaks at a rally, Monday, November 23, 2015, in Pahrump, Nev.

35% of likely SC Republican primary voters give Trump their support, followed by Carson with 19%, then Rubio with 16% and Cruz with 13%. Other polls even found Carson with narrow leads in Iowa and nationally, shaking up a race Trump had dominated for months. Its worst-case outcome is what the polls are already showing: a clear win for an unacceptable candidate, and the other candidates so evenly split and so far behind that the contest fails to clarify which candidate the establishment should coalesce behind. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen.

“It did happen. I saw it. It was on television”.

Donald Trump is ratcheting up his rhetoric about American Muslims, saying there’s precedent for monitoring a few mosques amid the recent terror wave. Carson also held steady at 22% support, exactly the same as where he stood one month ago in the survey. Ms. Hicks said only that Mr. Trump had drawn an “unprecedented” crowd of 10,000 in Birmingham, adding, “Mr. Trump’s speech was great and unbelievably well received”. “And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down”.

“If we want to examine people who are on terrorist watch lists and not let them buy a gun, I mean, it’s something that ought to be considered”, Kasich said. Rubio and Cruz are tied for third, with 14 percent support each.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the response of Muslim-Americans on September 11 was disgust.

“If you’ve got a bowl with five grapes in it and three of them are bad you’re not going to eat any of the grapes because they could be really bad”, said Gibson Gray of Blountsville, Alabama. However, 37 percent said they still have not heard of Carson.

With those figures behind him, Trump can argue that he’s tapping into a few very real frustrations that grassroots members of the Republican party have with the other candidates, and that they’re listening with intent to what he has to say.

A Pew poll shows that candidates like Trump who seem to have a personal battle with the government have every political reason to do so, says CNN.