Trump Back On Top As Carson Fades

This comes as a surprise, since back in November, Ben Carson had 23 percent and was very close to Trump’s 24 percent, according to a study made by the same source. Ted Cruz of Texas and 5 percent for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Carson’s campaign has struggled to prove the candidate’s understanding of foreign policy and national security, which has become a central concern for voters in the wake of the terrorist attack in Paris last month.

In a new Quinnipiac national survey released Wednesday, Ben Carson saw the biggest swing from the same poll taken at the start of last month. Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley had 2 percent, with 6 percent undecided. “The Doctor sinks. The Donald soars”. The GOP (Grand Old Party as the Republican Party is referred to), 11 months from the election, has to be thinking, ‘This could be the guy’.

Adding to the political pressure in a presidential election year, when Democrats generally are more successful at getting their votes to show up at polling places: The Cook Political Report, which provides non-partisan handicapping of political races, rates four Senate seats now held by Republicans-Florida, Illinois, New Hampshire and Wisconsin-as “toss-ups”, compared to just one for Democrats in Nevada.

Ron Bonjean, a GOP strategist, told CNN that both candidates seem to be positioning themselves for a head-to-head battle in the event that frontrunner Donald Trump exits the race. She widened her lead over Trump (47 – 41) and she gained considerable ground on Rubio, Cruz and Carson (last month she trailed all three).

Speaking before supporters during a campaign event in Bettendorf, Iowa, the Republican presidential candidate suggested that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats are trying to scare voters with “the condom police”, CBS News reports. However, voters who named foreign policy as the top issue favored Mr. Rubio over Mr. Trump, 22 percent to 19 percent. For Trump, 59 percent said he was not honest.

Among GOP voters, 26% say they “would definitely not support” Trump and his honesty grade ranks low.

“If he runs as an independent”, Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway said in August, “conventional wisdom is that he will guarantee Hillary Clinton wins”. But two candidates in particular who usually stand out as the obvious alternatives, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, have remained unusually cordial toward each other despite all the mud slinging. The results of the 672 Republicans polled has a margin of error of ±3.8 percentage points and of 573 Democrats a margin of error of ±4.1 percentage points.