The GOP race has gotten a lot tighter since last week’s caucus in Iowa, as Rubio, Cruz, and Trump have emerged in a three-way tie at the top.
It represents a significant fall from grace for the once infallible Trump, but there’s a caveat…
A new national survey from Public Policy Polling finds GOP frontrunner Donald Trump shedding 9-points since early January. The race for the Republican nomination is now essentially a 3-way tie between Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Trump currently leads the race with 25 percent support. The last national survey from PPP taken at the end of December had Trump with 34 percent. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are currently tied for second with 21 percent each.
Ben Carson is in fourth, with 11 percent support. Jeb Bush and John Kasich are tied with 5 percent each, followed by Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie with 3 percent each.
“Donald Trump’s really seen some cratering in his support this week,” Dean Debnam, President of PPP, said in a release. “A key part of his message has always been that he’s a winner and now that he’s lost something Republicans- and especially conservatives- aren’t finding him as compelling as they did a few weeks ago.”
Before Cruz and Rubio supports start spreading the word, however, they’d be smart to consider the source of the numbers, Public Policy Polling. They’ve been the center of many news articles, and subsequent cries of bias before.
In many ways, PPP has earned its status as a media favorite: It conducts lots of polls, provides detailed interpretations of what it thinks the results mean, asks timely and probing questions that hone in on the political world’s interests (like whether the president’s endorsement helps in high-profile Senate races), and even hosts online polls about which race it should poll next. But it is a bit jarring to hear a pollster say, “We’re absolutely rooting in the race. We don’t want [Republican] Richard Burr to get reelected,” as PPP’s Tom Jensen declared to Politico last year.
“The line of cars parked in Exeter for the @realDonaldTrump event…leaves town. pic.twitter.com/vyHmuYHuCP“
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) February 4, 2016
The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker reported on the mobbed scene.
“Squeezing a Trump rally into the Exeter Town Hall is a sight to behold. Crowded, steamy, and scores of disappointed Trumpeters locked out.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) February 4, 2016
What’s more indicative of the status of the race, public polling or on-the-ground enthusiasm. While many would point to numbers as objective truth, Ted Cruz proved last week that enthusiasm on the ground is often the deciding factor of primary elections, and in New Hampshire, Donald Trump has still got it.
Source: Breitbart, National Review, The Gateway Pundit
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/243447/public-policy-polling-or-controlling-jim-geraghty
Don’t Forget this is Bernie Superbowl if he was to get elected
What do we get when we put a Lier, a Canadian, and a$#%&!@*vs a criminal and communist grandpa???? The American elections
Don’t Forget$#%&!@*s were Socialists !
National Socialist German Workers’ Party =$#%&!@*s and everything that came from it.
The trains ran on time in Germany, the Mail got were it needed to be, and the planes arrived on time.
There’s vote count manipulation going on with the machines that count the votes
Rubio never had a surge Cruz didn’t win Iowa
Trump was so far ahead they wanted him to come in 3rd and he still came in second
Look at his rally’s he has 3-4 times as many people compared to the other candidates
Ballots need to be hand counted with witnesses not by machines
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=qZUvVGmv5QM
They’re counting on the voting machines from Microsoft to give Bush or Rubio the win or last resort Cruz
IOWA PRIMARY—IN HOT DISPUTE
The results from the first state primary, Iowa, are in and already there are signs of vote tally manipulation. Ted Cruz came in first with Donald Trump barely making second place ahead of a suspiciously strong Marco Rubio. Trump initially graciously conceded the victory but quickly turned around the next day saying Cruz “stole” the election and demanded a recount. Trump may be right about the election being stolen, but it wasn’t because of the fraud by Cruz’s campaign team in one precinct. Trump failed to notice the glaring discrepancy between his lower numbers in the 5 precincts that Rubio won where Rubio’s numbers were almost 10 points higher than polls predicted—a prominent clue of vote count manipulation. All of this was meant to undermine Trump’s frontrunner status and encourage infighting between the two top candidates which was achieved in spades. All indications point to the fact that the results in Iowa, tallied by a biased Microsoft app, were skewed in favor of Rubio and Cruz.
There’s vote count manipulation going on, with the machines that count the votes.
Rubio never had a surge, Cruz didn’t win Iowa.
Trump was so far ahead, they PTB wanted him to come in 3rd, and he still came in second.
Look at his crowds Trump has 3-4 times as many people compared to the other candidates. Trump is way ahead in all the polls yet last minute things change
Ballots need to be hand counted with witnesses not counted by machines.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=qZUvVGmv5QM
They’re counting on the voting machines from Microsoft to give Bush or Rubio the win or last resort Cruz
IOWA PRIMARY—IN HOT DISPUTE
The results from the first state primary, Iowa, are in and already there are signs of vote tally manipulation. Ted Cruz came in first with Donald Trump barely making second place ahead of a suspiciously strong Marco Rubio. Trump initially graciously conceded the victory but quickly turned around the next day saying Cruz “stole” the election and demanded a recount. Trump may be right about the election being stolen, but it wasn’t because of the fraud by Cruz’s campaign team in one precinct. Trump failed to notice the glaring discrepancy between his lower numbers in the 5 precincts that Rubio won where Rubio’s numbers were almost 10 points higher than polls predicted—a prominent clue of vote count manipulation. All of this was meant to undermine Trump’s frontrunner status and encourage infighting between the two top candidates which was achieved in spades. All indications point to the fact that the results in Iowa, tallied by a biased Microsoft app, were skewed in favor of Rubio and Cruz.
You are delusional thinking Carson will finish above Cruz!
#TRUMP 2016………………….ovomit/killary for PRISON 2016
Trump. ..
Karen- I was hopeful that Dr. Carson could finish in front of Cruz. I like Dr.Carson. He has strong values and is a great man. Hoping someone picks him up as a VP because thinking he could do great things and put some accountability and integrity back in our White House.