Trump Leads GOP Field By 17 Points Less Than A Month Before Iowa

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as a protestor is removed from the arena during a campaign stop at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass., Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

January 5, 2016 8:59 a.m.

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump woke up to good news Tuesday morning: The candidate posted a 17-point lead in the national NBC News/Survey Monkey poll.

Trump earned 35 percent and was trailed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at 18 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at 13 percent.

The real estate mogul also handily led various demographics, including men (39 percent), women (29 percent) and white evangelicals (33 percent).

Among Republican and Republican-leaning respondents who might change their mind, Cruz was the most popular second choice at 22 percent.

The online poll was conducted by the Data Analytics Lab of NBC News in conjunction with Penn’s Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies. The poll was conducted from Dec. 28-Jan. 3 among 3,700 adults nationally, 949 of whom claimed to be registered Republican voters. The margin of error was 3.7 percentage points.

Trump had earned a 21-point lead in a CNN/ORC national poll released Dec. 23.

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365daysofhorror says:

January 5, 2016

I don’t see a lot of Trump supporters going out to caucus. School gyms and firehouses are not classy.
steviedee111 says:

January 5, 2016

Hopefully Trump gets the GOP nod. Either Hillary trounces him, as pundits predict, or he becomes Prez. If he’s Prez the nation has earned him. Some price must be exacted for our behavior in the last 60 years, it may as well take form with him.
pickwick says:

January 5, 2016

I can’t wait to see Trump debating foreign policy with Clinton, or any policy for that matter.
sherlock1 says:

January 5, 2016

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me —has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.*” ___ H. L. Menken

Actually, hate, bigotry, fear mongering, xenophobia and racism have always worked quite well as dog whistles for the Right Wingnuttery. Trump and his marketing teams know this quite well and are doing a ‘heckova’ job exploiting it.