The Republican Party continues to see the consequences of making itself the party of angry aging whites longing for the past and lost white privilege, outright racists, and far right Christian extremists as a new national poll shows the always bombastic Donald Trump surging and assumed GOP establishment candidate Jeb "Jebbie" Bush slipping down to third place. As Trump surges, the ugly truths about the GOP continue to be highlighted and more and more Americans are waking up to the selfishness, greed, and extremism of the GOP base. A piece in
Politico looks at the most recent poll findings. Here are highlights:
Donald Trump leads the GOP
presidential field by a significant margin, according to a new Quinnipiac
University national poll released Thursday.
The poll also indicates that Ohio
Gov. John Kasich could ride a post-announcement bump onto the stage for next
week’s debate in Cleveland, despite fears that Trump’s wall-to-wall media
coverage had overshadowed his late entry into the race.
Fully 20 percent of Republican and
Republican-leaning voters said they would vote for Trump if the primary were
held today — the largest share any single candidate has received in
Quinnipiac’s seven surveys over the past two years. That puts the brash
real-estate magnate ahead of the two other candidates who earn double-digit
support: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 13 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush at 10 percent.
It’s a four-way tie for fourth place
— with pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio all at 6 percent. Kasich,
at 5 percent, is tied for eighth place with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
That’s enough to vault Kasich into
the top 10 in POLITICO’s analysis of the most recent live-caller polling of the
GOP primary — and potentially onto the dais at the Fox News debate on Aug. 6.
Kasich replaces former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who earned just 2 percent of the
vote in the Quinnipiac poll and slipped to 11th in the POLITICO average.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stays
at ninth in the average thanks to his 3 percent haul in Thursday’s Quinnipiac
poll. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who earned 2 percent in the Quinnipiac poll,
and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, at 1 percent, are tied for 12th
place in the POLITICO average — a full percentage point behind Kasich for the
10th-place spot.
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly
Fiorina, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Gov. George
Pataki also earned just 1 percent of the vote — and are all well behind in the
average.
Trump’s strength in the poll comes
primarily from male voters: He earns 24 percent of the vote among men. But he
also leads among female voters, with 15 percent of the vote to Bush’s 12
percent and Walker’s 9 percent.
[F]or Trump, a 59 percent majority of
voters views him unfavorably, with 27 percent who have a favorable opinion. But
his image ratings have actually improved over the past two months: In
Quinnipiac’s late May poll — taken before he announced his candidacy — just 20
percent viewed him favorably, and 69 percent viewed him unfavorably.
In short, the spectacle continues. Meanwhile, the Koch brothers seek to derail Trump in favor of one of their puppets.
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