Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is leading in South Carolina among Republican primary voters, but by a much smaller margin than in a poll by the same firm two months ago, according to a poll released Monday.
The Public Policy Polling survey showed Trump at 25 percent, retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson at 21 percent, and Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) at 15.
In a September poll of the state by PPP, Trump had 37 percent support while Carson had 21 percent, and Cruz had 6 percent.
Sen. Marco Rubio (FL) also had a significant increase from September, going from 4 percent to 13 percent in the poll.
The poll was conducted by phone interviews and online among 787 usual Republican primary voters on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
I guess it’s Cruz’s time to rise. Just wait until the vetting starts on him. Yikes!
Interesting that even though a lot of these polls have a “second choice” where the Trump and Carson voters always pick the other, here Trump’s decline does not benefit Carson.
Oh! you said South Carolina, Sorry, never mind.
Aaaaah, South Carolina…Amurika’s sweaty grundle…
Interesting! Trump is dropping, Carson is staying in place, and Cruz has tripled his share.
Cruz offers all the bluster and craziness of Trump plus all the academic credentials of Carson, covered over with a thin veneer of government experience. I could easily see him getting the nomination. And then I could see Hillary getting the immediate endorsement of the other 99 senators.
Looks like it’s hammer time!