Donald Trump Isn't A Joke To Republican Voters Anymore [View all]

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Donald Trump Isn't A Joke To Republican Voters Anymore

by Ariel Edwards-Levy at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/13/donald-trump-poll_n_7787770.html

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Donald Trump's blusterous presidential campaign has earned him untold hours of TV mockery and cost him quite a few business partners. It's also succeeded in turning around his image in the GOP.

When he entered the race, he stood out for, among other reasons, the sheer awfulness of his ratings among his own party.

But a new HuffPost/YouGov poll is just the latest of several to show that Republicans are changing their minds about the business mogul. In June, voters who identify as or lean toward the Republican Party -- for the sake of brevity, let's just call them Republican voters -- said by a 19-point margin that Trump wasn't a serious candidate. Today, they're about evenly split.



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