Trump leading latest GOP poll

But he’s still ahead in the December polls, a signal that has boded well for GOP candidates in the past. Christie was at 4 percent. The importance of the poll is that it brought home dramatically what other surveys have pointed to over the last several months: Trump, the billionaire, is the GOP’s working-class hero.

Republican voters are most sharply divided by education. Fifteen percent believe that of Rubio, 11 percent for Cruz, and 10 percent for Carson. Of the purported 90 million Americans who are identified loosely as Evangelicals (and the definition itself is not an easy one), many are African-Americans not inclined to vote for Ted Cruz or any Republican; 28 percent are self-identified Democrats (according to Pew’s numbers); and others just aren’t into politics.

Bush also praised President George W. Bush’s policies toward Israel, telling the crowd that “I got a damn good brother”. Cruz sounds like a politician; he’s overtly evangelical, which, lord knows, Trump is not.

Nowhere is that more true than the great matchup catching fire now between Sens. If you like Cruz, you like him because he’s a warrior for conservative dogma. In the hours after the shooting, Trump initially cast such shootings “a mental health issue, to a large extent”. Only 18 percent of college graduates, by contrast, said they would vote for Trump. Republican opinion on Trump’s “deport ’em all” plan is also complicated.

Meanwhile, Trump has a substantial lead among Republicans without college degrees, as 46 percent support the businessman.

In the CNN poll, 17 percent said Cruz was best able to handle foreign policy and 14 percent said he was best able to handle ISIS.

Jeb Bush, leading in national and New Hampshire polls until July, now seems mired in single digits, despite heavy super-PAC advertising. “I don’t think it is our business”, Levin told Tel Aviv radio station 102 FM. They are starting to anticipate a protracted primary race that extends far beyond the early states and possibly into the summer, in which the party slowly wears Trump down. Cruz doesn’t talk like that.

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-53% of Trump supporters are in favor of a national database of Muslims, to only 22% opposed to that concept.

While the other candidates used their platform to attack US President Barack Obama, Trump turned on his audience during his remarks.

“Our president doesn’t want to use the term”, Trump said Thursday.

“Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals?” he asked at another point, and then answered his own question. And like Goldwater, who was known for his gruff manner, Cruz has an intense, unflinching style that rubs many people the wrong way. The Jacksonians are united behind one candidate.

GOP voters also see Trump as the best candidate to defeat the Democratic nominee.

Throughout all these months, most political professionals have pooh-poohed his chances of actually winning the nomination – and for plausible reasons. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.

Traditionally, live-interview polling has been the standard technique and its results more trusted. “It does raise some serious questions about how we need to be protecting ourselves”.

This is essentially what CNN/ORC did with the five questions that were focused on illegal immigration.