Trump Gains Yet Shows Vulnerability
in a Crowded, Contentious GOP Race
ABC/WaPo Langer Research including internals
http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1170a22016Politics.pdfControversial Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leads the GOP primary field in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, while also garnering enough support as a hypothetical independent candidate in the general election to potentially damage his party’s chances.
That’s even though a majority of Americans, including most Republicans, say Trump does not represent the Republican Party’s core values, and six in 10 overall – including three in 10 in his own party– say they wouldn’t consider supporting him for president were he the GOP nominee.
How long the Trump surge lasts is an open question;
this poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday, mostly before his controversial criticism Saturday of Sen. John McCain’s status as a war hero. And Trump’s support was conspicuously lower Sunday than in the three previous days.
If you go to certain entertaining, follow the leader, flavor-of-the-week forums, Trump is huge.
If you poll the nation, he is the candidate that the most would not vote for.
But he picked up on Bush, much of it at the expense of Cruz and a couple of others.
It can all be found in these internals.
