Real-estate mogul Donald Trump leads the Republican field by a 17 percent margin, according to this week’s NBC/SurveyMonkey online tracking poll.
Support for the three leading GOP candidates was virtually unchanged since last week’s survey, with Trump, at 38 percent of support, comfortably beating out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at 21 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at 8 percent.
The NBC/SurveyMonkey poll was consistent with most other polling of the Republican primary field, and reflects many of the salient qualities of the GOP contest. Trump’s wide national lead has proven almost impossible for other candidates to dent, and appears to have held despite recent bitter clashes with Cruz and tightening poll numbers in Iowa. Cruz, for his part, has been unable to break substantially away from support in the 18-20 percent range, as this poll reaffirmed, and certainly remains unable to approach Trump in national polls even as he has held ahead of the other GOP candidates, as he has in nearly all polling conducted since mid-December.
The NBC/SurveyMonkey poll was conducted online from Jan. 11-17 among 11,578 adults, with a margin of error of 2.3 percentage points.
The Donald knows his audience and he knows how to sell what they’re buying!
Big fucking deal.
If there really was a benevolent God it would see fit to let Lenny Bruce back on the planet for the next 9 months.
Panicked columns about Trump today in the NYT by David Brooks and in the WashPost by Michael Gerson. They don’t seem to get it: this is his party now. And it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of sociopaths.
Why evangelical voters don’t see Trump as a precursor to Revelations, I’ll never understand. His hair must hide the horns.