Fiorina surges after 2nd Republican debate, Trump loses support

The second GOP debate of the 2016 primary season boiled down to the billionaire reality TV star and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. “Fiorina, who didn’t register any support before summer, has surged into third place with 11 percent support“. Fiorina, the only female candidate running for the Republican nomination, also delivered numerous longest answers on Wednesday night. One of the biggest surprises was that Scott Walker received support of less than a half of one percent of voters.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson nets 10 percent support, with the poll finding no other Republican White House hopeful cracking double digits in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

“I think Bush is fading very fast”, Trump said, citing the former governor’s being “weak” on immigration and Bush’s support for Common Core standards. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 6%, Kentucky Sen.

Fiorina took 15 percent of votes cast, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at almost 14 percent, Texas Sen.

Indeed, 52% of Republicans who watched the debate said Fiorina did the “best job”, according to the CNN poll.

Rene Marcaux, a U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps commander who lives in Westminster, remains a Trump supporter, but she was left uneasy by his responses on foreign affairs questions, she said.

Fiorina, meanwhile, picked up 12 percentage points since a CNN poll earlier this month; Trump lost eight points. Rubio finished in fourth place with 11 percent – up from three percent in a previous survey.

“I think he will get smashed by the negative attack ads and the establishment will get their act together and blow him out early next year”, he said.

Trump went on to say that he found Fiorina to be “very robotic”, while poking fun at her for referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as her “friend”. Mr Trump said on Twitter. The poll is of Republicans (305 of them) and independents who lean Republican (139 in number).

She spoke with startling candour at Wednesday’s debate about the death of her stepdaughter to drug addiction and the need for better treatment, revealing a painful episode that many people watching were unaware of: “My husband, Frank, and I buried a child to drug addiction”.

The CNN/ORC poll was conducted between September 17 and September 19.