Here’s Who GOP Voters Say Is Their Most Electable Candidate
On the Democratic side, Hillary Rodham Clinton is dominating rival Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator who describes himself as a democratic socialist.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,453 registered voters nationwide from November 23 – 30 with a margin of error plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
Trump gets 27 percent of Republican voters today, with 17 percent for Sen.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came next with just 5 percent, and no other candidate tops 3 percent.
The change for Carson goes well outside the margin of error, and it’s not an outlier. Carson’s red line is heading south, while the trend lines for Rubio, Cruz, and even Trump head in the opposite direction.
“Would a President Cruz build a wall along the entire southern border?”
“It would be malpractice for the Senatorial committee not to prepare our candidates for every possible Republican and Democrat nominee and election scenario”, spokeswoman Andrea Bozek told the paper. This is a slight three-point improvement over a previous showing last month and puts him well ahead of Sen.
And Clinton’s lead over GOP challengers has picked up from the previous poll. The brash real estate mogul’s candidacy, once thought to be fleeting by top establishment Republicans but now entering its fifth month atop national polls, has sparked widespread worry about a potential wipeout effect on down-ticket races if he becomes a nominee.
Likability is a problem for both frontrunners, though.
What Cruz preferred to discuss is his vote against comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, a bill despised by many conservatives, and that Rubio supported but has since backed away from.
Also, 60 percent of the respondents said Clinton was not honest and trustworthy. Trump is not honest and trustworthy, voters say 59 – 35 percent. Marco Rubio of Florida comes in second place with 17 percent. It’s his best showing in the poll since August, and a 3-point increase from last month. This means he’s tied with Cruz and virtually tied with Rubio. That’s not significantly better than Bush’s four percent support in November, and it’s far from Bush’s peak in the Quinnipiac poll at 16 percent, way back in March. Once the strongest challenger against GOP front-runner Donald Trump, Carson is now tied for third place with Sen.
“Ben Carson, moving to center stage just one month ago, now needs some CPR”.
Among voters who say foreign policy is most important, Rubio leads with 22 percent, followed by Trump and Cruz at 19 percent.
Pollster Malloy says Democrats may be smacking their lips over the prospect of facing Donald Trump as the GOP standard-bearer.
Many leading Republican officials are in a bit of a standoff, as strategists and donors now say they fear Trump’s nomination would lead to a sweeping defeat – one that would wipe out, or undo, some of the gains Republicans have made in recent congressional, state and local elections.