Half Of US Voters Embarrassed With Trump As President

Half of Americans say they would be embarrassed to have Donald Trump as president and 28 percent of Republicans said they definitely wouldn’t support the brash and bold billionaire, according to a poll released Tuesday. All other Republican candidates are at 2 percent or less, including Jeb Bush, whose allied super PAC, Right to Rise, has spent millions on advertising in the caucus state. But 58 percent of those who name a candidate might change their mind.

In match-ups, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat out Trump at 47 to 40, and just barely beats Rubio at 44 to 43.

Clinton’s response came in the debate at the end of a lengthy exchange with rivals Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley on the proper strategy to adopt in Syria. 6% are undecided and 41% might change their mind.

Thirty-five percent of those surveyed said they would feel embarrassed by a Clinton presidency, while 33 percent said they would be proud. Rubio has charged Cruz with being unclear on how he would deal with the 12 million people already in the country illegally, while Cruz has countered that he has never wavered in his oppostion to providing any form of “amnesty” to them. The margin of error is +/- 2.9 percentage points. Trump is in second place with 31 percent.

After insisting that enough damage had been done and swearing off future insults toward Jeb Bush, Donald Trump on Friday returned to badgering his favorite presidential foe. When Trump pronounced Ted Cruz “just fine” at the end of the debate, the Texas senator appeared as tickled as if he’d just won the Presidential Medal of Freedom or an Academy Award. Bernie Sanders hammers him and Sen.

Despite the dominance of Trump and Cruz, it was Rubio who was seen as having the best chance to win the general election, according to 66 percent of those polled by Quinnipiac, while 65 percent and 54 percent, respectively, said Cruz and Trump have a good chance of winning.

Rubio does a better job retaining the party faithful than Trump in these matchups: 85 percent of GOP voters would back Rubio over Clinton, while 75 percent would go for Trump over the Democrat. The several days prior to the Las Vegas debate, Cruz’s campaign appeared to have entered its “Thank you, sir, may I have another” phase.

The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and the nation as a public service and for research.

Kasich and Bush are going most heavily against Donald Trump. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., is gaining ground on the real estate tycoon.

Leading the charge has been Rubio, the Florida senator who has been tangling with Cruz for weeks over a range of issues – most sharply immigration. Rubio does not draw the levels of support among either the very conservative or evangelicals that Cruz does, but he has moved a few voters from Carson as well, suggesting that he may be fighting with Cruz for the non-Trump portion of voters.