Kasich: Trump will not be GOP nominee

ABC’s “This Week”: Clinton headlines the program to give her take on how Americans can curb gun violence, followed by former Florida governor and Republican primary contender Jeb Bush.

Carson slid down to third since October at the CNN/ORC poll, going down by as much as 8 points.

Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines.

Senator Rand Paul (KY) now has only 1% Republican support to show for his campaign effort.

Responses from voters of the mostly White Republican Party to fumbles by Trump and Carson demonstrate a double standard.

Pollsters acknowledged the survey was taken just as Carson began sliding in national polling.

GOP Voters Convinced Only Trump Can Win General Election?

Trump also suggested that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl – who deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009, was captured and held hostage for years before being rescued – should be dumped from a plane in the middle of Afghanistan. You have more levels of complexity – more candidates, more uncertainty about who’s really going to vote.

Cruz was reacting to Rubio’s appearance Friday on Good Morning America in which Rubio said, “We have to have robust intelligence gathering capabilities to disrupt plots”.

Nevertheless, the businessman won the trust of GOP voters on key issues for the nation’s future.

“It doesn’t seem to matter what he says or who he offends, whether the facts are contested or the “political correctness” is challenged, Donald Trump seems to be wearing Kevlar”, Quinnipiac assistant poll director Tim Malloy said in a news release detailing the results.

Speaking about the sister of one of the San Bernardino shooters, Trump accused her of lying and knowing more than she has let on. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

The poll shows that 52 percent of Republican voters responded they see Trump as the candidate with the best chance of actually being able to chart a course to the Oval Office in 2016.

Recently, Donald Trump said publicly that he should charge CNN $5-M to appear in the network’s next GOP candidates’ debate in Las Vegas on 15 December because his participation would guarantee high viewer ratings. About half say such an effort would be harmful to the economy (47 percent), while about 3 in 10 say it would help (29 percent).

As Trump endures in the polls, I think more and more about the political significance of the child migrant crisis of the summer of 2014. Having spent a little more than $200,000 on television ads, Trump nonetheless leads the field. Among Trump supporters, 67% say the government should attempt to deport all people living in the country illegally, while just 39% of Republican voters backing other candidates agree. Another intriguing finding, this one from a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute: Republicans are more pessimistic than Democrats. The Monmouth University poll asked Republicans in New Hampshire last month whether they had “completely decided” which candidate to support; only 20 percent said yes.

The survey was conducted among 600 likely Republican caucus-goers from November 16-22 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.