Trump Numbers Rise to 40% among Likely GOP Voters in Reuters Survey

Trump breaks 40% among likely GOP voters in latest Reuters/Ipsos survey

by Jazz Shaw   at  HotAir:

“After that “terrible” appearance on Saturday Night Live and the awful immigration comments at the debate, Donald Trump was sadly doomed in terms of his election hopes. I know this because I heard it from so many experts inside the beltway. Now the rolling Reuters/Ipsos national presidential poll has confirmed it. The Donald has, for the first time, landed at more than 40% among likely GOP primary voters. (Yahoo News)

After a week in which he hosted Saturday Night Live and stood center-stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump is surging among Republicans likely to cast votes in the party’s presidential primary.

According to the five-day rolling Reuters/Ipsos presidential poll, Trump has leapt some 17 percentage points among likely Republican voters since Nov. 6, when he was essentially tied with Ben Carson at about 25 percent. Trump now captures 42 percent of those voters while Carson has fallen off slightly.

The likely voter numbers are always more closely watched than registered voters or all adults for obvious reasons, but even in the full pool Trump has moved back into a solid lead. Among all registered Republicans Trump takes 34% to Carson’s 20%. (As a rather pitiful footnote, Jeb Bush is stubbornly hanging on to 4%.) All of this comes with the usual caveat that the individual state numbers still carry a bit more weight, particularly the first fifteen or twenty contests. But even there Trump is in first place in most of them.

There was, however, one interesting statistical blip which popped up earlier this week. In the Lone Star State, Trump has a new challenger who has pulled into a statistical tie, and that someone in question is none other than favored son Ted Cruz. (The Hill)…….”   please read on:

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