Trump leads national GOP horserace; Cruz surges into 2nd place

Among Republican registered voters, almost 6 in 10 offered a favorable opinion of Trump. “They’re kind of sitting there, dazed like all of us”.

Hough said he purchased the tickets for the Aiken rally weeks in advance on the Trump website. “If it’s going to be that way we’ll have problems, but I hope it’s not going to be that way”.

“I didn’t do this for polls so I don’t even care what the polls say”, Trump said in an appearance yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union With Jake Tapper”.

Trump “is reminding us in that process that people are really upset and they’re really scared”, Rubio said.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, another GOP presidential candidate, expressed solidarity with Carson and Trump.

In the 2016 scenario, Mr Trump would capture much of the anti-establishment vote, and Mr Cruz would play well with the Republican Party’s evangelical wing. In a speech announcing his candidacy in June, Trump called Mexicans “rapists” causing NBCUniversal, Univision Communications Inc., Grupo Televisa SAB, Serta and PVH Corp.to break ties with him. “I think I’m the lump of coal in her stocking, and I think some of these candidates, Donald Trump in particular, are a big Christmas gift wrapped up under the tree for her”. The Washington Post reported that these leaders met late last week to discuss how to cope with Trump’s rise to the top of most GOP polls and what to do if no candidate wins a majority of delegates heading into the party’s convention.

He threatened Friday to leave the party and, presumably, run as an independent if GOP leaders treat him unfairly.

“We don’t want these kind of people here”, yelled one supporter at a reporter’s mike.

Trump’s campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment, but those close to Trump privately say he’s focused on winning the nomination and don’t deny he’s using the threat as leverage. Clearly we would fight that-that’s the aim of issuing such a press release, & garnering support for ensuring in that we do things the right method.

Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) is blasting Presidential candidate Donald Trump over his controversial proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States. “I’m supposed to be on the other side writing checks”, he said. “If Hillary gets elected, they figure it’s game over – they’ll figure out a way to make the Clean Power Plan” happen, Garland said at a Wells Fargo investor conference Wednesday in NY. “So you could make the case that a brokered convention does reflect the will of the people”.