Donald Trump up 4% over Ted Cruz in Quinnipiac poll

Clinton ties retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 45% to 45%, while edging current Republican front-runner Donald Trump by a 46-43 margin. Trump and Carson each came in at 10 percent.

Las Vegas was no different, even if Bush was more adept at grappling with Trump than he had been in past exchanges. “So that’s why I think he’s gaining momentum”.

The polls are by CBS/YouGov, The Augusta Chronicle and FOX News, and were taken from December 5 to December 17.

There’s yet another Republican debate scheduled before February’s Iowa caucuses, and the long run-up to the GOP presidential primaries is far from over.

Under traditional rules of thumb, one would expect that many Trump fans won’t actually vote, and that his percentages will be well under the 33 percent he’s getting in national polls and the 25 percent and 29 percent he’s polling in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“Blue-collar voters don’t feel embarrassed about supporting Trump, who is very popular in their communities, the pollsters suggested“. Carson and Bush each received 6 percent, but no other candidate received more than 3 percent.

The line in which Hammond, as Trump, accused Bush, played by Beck Bennett, of sitting down to pee – as opposed to standing up, as boys are typically potty-trained – was just a set-up. Rubio (15 percent) and Bush (13 percent), combined, would still trail Trump.

The survey found that Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who completed the survey online were roughly six percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than those who completed the survey with a live caller – the difference jumped to nine percentage points when the sample was limited to likely voters. They continued taking shots throughout the week, with Trump calling Bush “dumb as a rock” on Twitter Friday. When push comes to shove and they’re given a secret ballot, however, we should expect these voters to show up for Trump. But consider this feat: Cruz has managed to maintain a fragile truce with Trump while surging past him in the crucial first state.

Quinnipiac’s national polling has consistently shown lower support for Trump than other national phone polls, and that seems to be the case again in Tuesday’s survey.

Marco Rubio holds steady in Iowa, at 12 percent and was up from 11 percent last month. Bush said, referencing Trump’s garbled answer on modernizing the nuclear triad.