New NBC News/Survey Monkey Poll: Donald Trump Still in the Lead After Debates

[ericson00]

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Source: NBC News

If Donald Trump's comments about Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it's not showing in the numbers.

According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey, Trump is at the top of the list of GOP candidates that Republican primary voters would cast a ballot for if the primary were being held right now.

The overnight poll was conducted for 24 hours from Friday evening into Saturday. During that period, Donald Trump stayed in the headlines due to his negative comments about Kelly and was dis-invited from a major conservative gathering in Atlanta.

None of that stopped Trump from coming in at the top of the poll with 23 percent. Sen. Ted Cruz was next on the list with 13 percent.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/new-nbc-news-survey-monkey-poll-donald-trump-still-lead-n406766

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Is anyone terribly surprised? This is the party in which a large portion still thinks Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim.

[Tommy2Tone]

1. Proving again that the star of a circus

is the clowns.

[63splitwindow]

6. He gives clowning a bad name...

[rocktivity]

2. Trump didn't happen overnight; he won't unhappen overnight

But he WILL unhappen -- do you really think for on second that the GOP powers that be will allow him to get by Jeb or Walker?

The Fox News debate was the official beginning of the end: refusing to refuse to consider running as an independent was the icing on the cake. The questions he and Christie Chrsitie asked were tailor made for sending sending them into tantrum mode.


rocktivity

[Attorney in Texas]

3. Trump 23%, Cruz 13%, Carson 11%, Fiorina 8% -- note that three of those never held any office ever.

for more details and video

[n2doc]

4. That's gotta be really pissing off the Koch's and the Bush Family Evil Empire

I can imagine a flurry of attack ads are coming.

[LiberalElite]

5. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

GO DONALD! GO DONALD! GO DONALD!

("The enemy of my enemy is my friend!&quot

[SCVDem]

7. Proving once again

That this is the true face of half our country.

Religious, sexist, misogynistic, racist, elitist, delusional and really fucking stupid!

They agree with Trump. He speaks for them.

I find this disgusting and it affects how the world views us.

[PSPS]

22. No, it's not "the true face of half our country."

What is left of the GOP base comprises about 20% of the country (plus billionaires,) and it's shrinking every day. The clown car is filling up the news cycles at the moment, and the clowns are all vying for a plurality of that 20%. Whoever emerges with the imprimatur of this 20% is doomed to failure in the general election. And each and every one of them knows this.

[Doingto]

8. NBC could have matchd Trump vs. Hillary and Sanders

But chose not to.

[stuffmatters]

17. NBC's delighted Trump's still on top. Viewer magnet, media gold.

Even Fox, who's whining so much, has to admit to themselves most of those 24 million tuned in to see Trump And
Megyn is getting vast exposure as a "woman victim" which she hardly deserves. I've never, ever heard of her or Fox standing up for women's rights.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Teeeeeee-Rump!

Donald Trump is smarter than he's being given credit for.

He knows human nature, he must know hypocrites when he sees them,
he surely does not want a wave of GOP Prudishness to destroy America's
casino culture, it would be bad for his business.

He's dragging the misfits back to the mainstream.

A New York businessman is about business. Culture war is not his cup of tea.

So far, everyone's happy, left, right, Faux ratings too.

[ericson00]

15. That is why he's so dangerous to the GOP establishment

business is simply politics with a lot more money involved, at which Trump trumps Ailes anyday

[yallerdawg]

10. Trump has touched the beating heart of the Republican Party!

Racist. Misogynist. Nasty. Hateful. Uninformed.

It's a beautiful thing!

Go, Trump, GO!

[totodeinhere]

11. Go Donald go! If he could get the nomination it could be the end of the Republican

Party. And if that happens all I can say is good riddance.

[Sunlei]

12. I think Donald Trump will tap Sarah Palin as VP if Cruz lets her get past him.

Trump & Palin already said many, friendly, compliments about each other.

[ericson00]

14. yea but knowing the Donald, he probably will say that

Palin was "PMSing" if she gets out of line and he will then turn on her, say "She was a horrible VP candidate in 2008 when John McCain, who was not a war hero, got killed in the election as his plane did in Vietnam, and both were complete losers."

I think Ted Cruz is either his VP, or the guy he throws his support to if he doesn't get the nod.

[63splitwindow]

20. and if elected their plan would be...

to turn the presidency into a reality show for more $$$

[question everything]

13. Of course he is. The teabaggers conditioned the voters to applaud

anyone with outrageous behavior.

And, by the way, some criticized him for not knowing anything about foreign policy: here is the reality. Most Americans don't care about foreign policy, unless we are attacked and then they are ready to nuke the bastards, and get back to watch mindless "reality" show and football games.

[Rozlee]

16. LOL. What Trump lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in

his cleverness and ability to read and manipulate people. Like that one financial expert was saying, he could have made $20 billion if he'd retired and invested his fortune in CD's at one point, but he isn't a thinking genius, he's a scheming one. He enjoys going for the jugular and staying in the spotlight. He's in his element right now, basking in what he thinks is the worship of the masses, or what his narcissism has convinced him is the worship of the masses. What a morans.

[olddad56]

18. I guess you can just never overestimate the intelligence of the average republican voter.

[beac]

19. The GOP:

[stillwaiting]

21. Trump's still at 23% though. If he stays in the 20's or even 30's then...

... some of the Establishment candidates will probably drop out to allow for an Establishment candidate to beat Trump.

That is, if TPTB really don't want Trump to be Pretzeldent. Trump's such a greedy asshole that I would think he might be for just about all of the policies that TPTB want to see enacted. But, Trump's being attacked fairly aggressively in the media so I imagine Trump is not a comfortable choice for TPTB.

If Trump starts polling in the mid to upper 30's then I would think Trump might have a shot at winning if the field remains fairly large, but I don't know if that will ever come to pass. His unfavorables are very, very high. Maybe that's because he is an asshole. One of our country's biggest no doubt.

[mimi85]

23. From what CNN reported

no Republicans were polled in this, which makes it a bogus poll.

[itsrobert]

24. Not true

http://www.pdf.investintech.com/preview/33f7458c-3ec9-11e5-9555-002590d31986/index.html

Donald Trump has the support of 23% of Republican primary voters

[etherealtruth]

25. I am sorry, locking as a duplicate thread

please see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141171730