The latest poll from New Hampshire showed real estate mogul Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential field with more than three times the support of his closest competitor.
The Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found Trump in his strongest position thus far with 35 percent support among usual Republican primary voters.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich polled second at 11 percent and former technology executive Carly Fiorina polled at 10 percent. No other candidates reached double digits.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s support dropped dramatically. Walker lead the PPP poll in April at 24 percent. In the latest survey, Walker was tied with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 7 percent.
The poll was conducted among 436 usual Republican primary voters from August 21 through 24 via landline, except for the 20 percent who completed the poll online. The margin of error among Republicans was plus or minus 4.7 percent.
I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. A bad day for Walker is a good day in the universe.
That should say Walker and the Koch’s are tanking in New Hampshire. That’s a good thing.
It sure looks like the Walker campaign miscalculated. They figured they had a monopoly on stupid, and they were right to an extent: not even Trump is as stupid as Walker. But Trump is a lot louder about it, and volume is helping Trump more than those couple of extra IQ points are hurting him.
If anyone needs proof that the GOP is totally lost, totally out of touch with humanity and totally misanthropic, the fact that Trump is leading the field says it all. When a party is so bereft of a moral compass and so utterly out of ideas, the likes of Darnold Trump surface and are actually taken seriously by the knuckle-dragging base.
Walker is also not doing well in SC. If he starts lagging in Iowa, NH and SC his money people might start getting nervous. The key to eliminating him is cutting off his air.