Donald Trump doesn’t just lead in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, but he has nearly double the support of the nearest candidate and has a more commanding lead than any other Republican candidate has had in their polling of the race to this point.
Here’s how the Post put it: “That is the highest percentage and biggest lead recorded by any GOP candidate this year in Post-ABC News polls and marks a sixfold increase in his support since late May, shortly before he formally joined the race.”
Most of the survey was conducted before Trump’s controversial remarks Saturday about John McCain, and they did find some statistically significant drop-off in Trump’s support among those polled after the remarks. That means Trump’s support could have declined from its peak, but it also suggests that his peak was somewhere north of 24 percent.
