Trump surges among likely Republican primary voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll

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Source: Reuters



WASHINGTON | By James Oliphant




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A supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a pumpkin painted in the likeness of Trump as he waits to get into a campaign event in Springfield, Illinois, November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young


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.

Among all Republicans - not simply likely primary voters -Trump holds a substantial edge over Carson, at 34 percent to about 20 percent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll.



Trump’s appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live earned the program its highest ratings in two years, with 9.3 million viewers tuning in. Then, on Tuesday, 13.5 million viewers watched the debate from Milwaukee broadcast on the Fox Business Network.......................


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[Wash. state Desk Jet]

1. The Donald here :

They just love my style !
I intend to get into the hair styling business and I expect the Trump look to be the great new look .It will become the greatest most fabulous hair style trend since the princeton, which by way happened to be the style of the day in my youth. .!

[Jim__]

2. The last republican know-nothing that was "elected" president set the Middle East on fire.

Do we really want to elect another one to pour gas on it?

[wiggs]

3. How much of the 42% represents primary voters who don't really intend

to vote for him but want to send a message via polls to more normal candidates that they can't pursue business as usual?

Looking for some way to explain the ridiculous....

[Fred Sanders]

5. This kind of early polling with a field of what is it, 15, is entertainment polling.

[Rozlee]

4. Well, there goes my sister's vote.

One of the near-extinct, die hard Hispanic Republicans and she can't see a picture of Trump without practically getting dry heaves. My parents and siblings all came to the US illegally in the 1950's; I was the much reviled 'anchor baby' and my entire family detests conservative policies with a venom. We're all staunch liberals with the exception of my sister, who's been an arch-conservative Catholic. But, she'll sit out this election rather than vote 'por ese fascista,' as she calls him. The conservative chickens have finally come home to roost if she's finally found the Republican candidate she absolutely won't vote for.