Republican voters view Donald Trump as their strongest general election candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights the sharp contrast between the party’s voters and its top professionals regarding the billionaire businessman’s ultimate political strength. CONT. Steve Peoples & Emily Swanson, AP Read more »
Donald Trump Huge on Ego in Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll
Republicans planning to attend the Iowa caucuses are still sorting out their presidential preferences, but there’s one decision they’ve overwhelmingly made: Donald Trump is the most ego-driven in their party’s crowded field of candidates. CONT. John McCormick, Bloomberg Politics Read more »
Trump Doesn’t Believe Polls Showing He’s No. 2
Donald Trump, who has spent most of the summer leading the Republican presidential field in the polls, told a Miami rally Friday he isn’t buying the results of two recent surveys that show him falling into second place in the state that will kick off the voting in 2016. “I […] Read more »
The Two Faces of the GOP
Defying the predictions of just about everyone who watches politics even remotely, the two nontraditional Republican presidential contenders remain at the top of just-released opinion polls. Public polls, it is true, have proliferated, and many are worthy of being ignored. But four of the most respected surveys came out this […] Read more »
Carson Surges Past Trump in Latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved into a dominant position in Iowa, surpassing former front-runner Donald Trump as evangelical Christians begin to coalesce around him in the state that will cast the first 2016 nomination ballots. CONT. John McCormick, Bloomberg Politics Read more »
The Passive Path to the Presidency
… The unexpected thing about the GOP nomination thus far isn’t the rise of the “outsiders” like Trump. This anti-establishment wing of the GOP has been a powerful force within the party for years. Instead, it’s the vacuum within the establishment wing that’s the more surprising. CONT. Amy Walter, Cook […] Read more »