Trump Remains On Top In National Poll While Carson Drops To Third

Photo by: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx 11/30/15 Donald Trump is joined by a coalition of 100 African-American evangelical pastors and religious leaders, following a private meeting at Trump Tower. (NYC)
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Real estate magnate Donald Trump led the top of a national poll of Republican voters released Wednesday morning while his rival retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who was once battling for first place, fell to third place.

Trump polled at 27 percent, followed by a rising Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 17 percent in the Quinnipiac University Poll. Carson as well as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are tied at 16 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush polled at 5 percent.

Last month, according to Quinnipiac polling, Trump polled at 24 percent and Carson polled at 23 percent. Rubio saw a small gain from the November poll where he earned 14 percent.

Trump and Bush top the list of candidates a Republican voter “would definitely not support” at 26 percent and 21 percent, respectively. There are just over 60 days until the Iowa caucus and eleven months until the general election.

The poll was conducted among 1,453 registered nationwide voters, 672 of whom are Republicans, between Nov. 23 and 30. The margin of error among Republicans was plus or minus 3.8 percent.

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  1. They are all bad, so it doesn’t matter.

  2. The best Republicans have. A reality tv show host who can’t keep his facts straight.

  3. I appreciate that photo stills are really not ‘reality’ real, and instead are in actuality, actually “actualized” (word of the week) art, but regardless: I know the picture this post opens with isn’t staged, but it is so freaking brilliant it FEELS staged.

  4. Though 26% of the party would never vote for Trump, that’ means 70+ would. If he wins in Iowa- or has a good showing- and wins New Hampshire then steamrolls into South Carolina, he’ll set himself up pretty well for Super Tuesday and if he gets Florida, it’s all but over. Trump is bad for America but the copious amounts of schadenfraude watching the cynical GOP establishment- who’ve wrought this on themselves- shit bricks will be almost worth it.

  5. Nominee McCain failed. Nominee Romney failed. Nominee Trump will fail. Seems the Repubs have a learning disorder.

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