YouGov poll: Trump still leads GOP field — but Rubio’s now in second

Hotair ^ | 10/02/2015 | AllahPundit

[Longbow1969]

Cruz is my top choice.

Trump isn’t even on the radar since he is not a conservative and I don’t want a self promoting realityTV star in the White House.

If Trump is the GOP nominee I will vote for him in the general election, however he is way down on the list in the primaries.

Personally I doubt Trump will even make it through Iowa and New Hampshire. I think his shtick will get old and tiresome to all but his most devoted followers.

[nathanbedford]

Dump Trump!

The dynamic of the race has changed, Donald Trump is now the problem.

Heretofore, we could agree that Donald Trump had broken ground because he had broken rules and gotten away with it. He opened the fundamental question in this election, immigration, and made it legitimate to actually oppose unrestrained immigration. This is the most important issue of this election, and Donald Trump should be thanked as he exits.

The exit of Donald Trump is only a question of time. Meanwhile his role has changed, he no longer serves as a shock force opening the debate to matters favorable to the conservative base, he now acts as an impediment to nominating a real conservative who can stop the real threat, Rino Marco Rubio.

Of the top candidates presently in this race, Trump, Rubio, Carson, Fiorina and Cruz only Cruz is a conservative. Trump's biography is a conservative nightmare. Fiorina is vulnerable on her tenure at HP, and her indisputable histrionic skills cannot compensate on the presidential level for these deficiencies, although she might make a splendid vice presidential candidate. Carson, as I predicted, will continue to make gaffes and see his boomlet fade away.

That leaves Marco Rubio as the most dangerous candidate in the field after Trump. Rubio is a snake and he must not be permitted to deceive unwary conservatives, he has discredited himself and disqualified himself by virtue of is treachery on amnesty. Rubio is a deceiver who gained office by seducing the tea party and then immediately sold out to the Mitch McConnell establishment. He has slipped between the sheets with the likes of Chuck Schumer. He has failed us on immigration the key issue in this election.

However, Rubio is possessed of matinee idol good looks, he is facile on his feet or in an interview, he has a compelling biography which he tells compellingly. He is a very dangerous candidate. And he is all the more dangerous because Jeb Bush is clearly yesterday's news.

Donald Trump is not our salvation. So long as Donald Trump's lead exists, even as it deteriorates with one gaffe after another, (also as I predicted), conservatives desperate in honest fear for the Republic will cling to him as to a golden calf. He is not the answer to Jeb Bush, he never was, that fear was unfounded and unnecessary. Similarly, he is not the answer to Marco Rubio.

It will take a real conservative to defeat Marco Rubio and will take a real campaigner who can generate respect as well as attention to himself while on his feet. Ted Cruz has never put a foot down wrong. Cruz is not a walking gaffe machine. His body is not a life-support system for his ego. He is an intellectual and forensic match for Marco Rubio. Ted Cruz's and adding establishment fighter who, unlike Trump, has never bribed politicians and, unlike Marco Rubio, has never betrayed the tea party.

The longer we flirt with The Donald the stronger Marco Rubio will be. Dump Trump now!

[usafa92]

The GOPe is scared $hi$less of Trump’s numbers amongst all adults. His favorables are growing with the general population but declining with the GOP. Again, the GOPe would rather lose the election than have Trump as the nominee. Basically, while Trump has declined somewhat in the RCP average, he has stabilized along with everyone else. Even Amnestio, who they are touting, has stabilized in the last 2 weeks. This race is in a holding pattern for now. Next debate is going to be key for Trump.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Trump hasn’t learned to skip the attacks on the other candidates. The constant attacks will come back to haunt the eventual nominee. ATTACK the RATS!”

The RINOs are the enemy.

They despise the base, but want you to continue on their plantation.

I took the freedom trail and haven’t looked back.

This election - and apparently worldwide - is a reaction to those entrenched in government.

I won’t vote RINO. They left me. Whatever consequence occurs is all on them.

[MNJohnnie]

Yep Rubio is on his way! He is firmly in....4th place!

[odawg]

“There is a long, long way to go and to assume Trump will be the leader throughout is silly.”

I heard Newt Gingrich cite the stats from the previous 5 - 6 elections concerning the front runner at this particular stage in the election. It is bad news for you; except for two instances, the front runner at this point won the nomination.

[HarleyLady27]

I agree...this next debate is right in Trump’s arena...

How much expertize does Rubio have in business...

Some in Carson ...Carly failed in both HP and Lucent...

Bush is an idiot, has he ever held a job in his life?

[C210N]

FOX has been pushing Rubio. He keeps popped up again this morning even though he has had nothing insightful to offer...

Has rubio chimed in on the No Fly Zone issue? Perhaps he could join the gang of 3 (Fiorino, Kasich, McCarthy) and make it a gang of 4.

[GOPJ]

Is this a Florida poll?

[odawg]

“So long as Donald Trump’s lead exists, even as it deteriorates with one gaffe after another, (also as I predicted)...”

It is not deteriorating as of today, and cite the gaffe that has not caused it thus far.

[catnipman]

“to assume Trump will be the leader throughout is silly.”

Optimistic, perhaps. Something that few conservatives have felt for decades. If Trump is not elected President, nothing will change. Everyone else, excepting Cruz, are members of the Uniparty.

And if President Trump can’t effect any change at all, then this country is done for real. Only a catastrophe of Biblical proportions would alter this country’s slide into Fabian socialism and worse. In 10 years, this country will be where Europe is: overrun by 3rd world peasants, criminals and gangs of every ethnic and religious stripe conceivable.

[knarf]

It was how decisions were made and negotiations were conducted in the 50's ....

Outside ....

In front of all the girls ....

And the two negotiators pretty much never had to do it again ... amicably

[JennysCool]

Our “unbiased” media ... still desperately searching for someone Hillary! can beat.

[Jim Noble]

Surprisingly, Carly Fiorina’s only improved modestly despite her own universally praised debate performance

Since 1984, the infotainment industry (which runs the "debates" AND the polls) has sworn an oath: "Never another Reagan".

Every once in a while, they tip their hand. On October 3, 2007, Dan Balz wrote in the Washington Post, "But the Republican contest remains unsettled just three months before the first votes will be cast...", implying that the actual casting of votes was somehow in opposition to a script, or predetermined outcome. This very year, the media has kept repeating that the two "inevitable" nominees were the two nobody wanted.

Fiorina has nowhere to go but down (metaphorically speaking).

[Beagle8U]

Trump is the only one that can get the slugs ( Bush, Rubio) out of the race, because he can out last them.

Trump will drop out after he clears the field for Cruz.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Cheap Labor Express desperately wants to knock Trump out and elevate one of their amnesty candidates.
Despite the best efforts of The Ministry of Propaganda (including Fox News) to boost their amnesty candidates, the citizens aren’t buying.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Enough for me, I would never support him after he schemed with Schumer against the citizens.
He is owned by The Cheap Labor Express and is a liar.

[ridesthemiles]

Life long Republican here-—

Cannot vote for Rubio under any circumstance.

[Longbow1969]

Trump is not a conservative, he is a populist protectionist masquerading as a conservative when it is convenient for him.

[FreeReign]

The manipulated race is really taking shape now. They will fade out RINOs Carly and Jeb.

McConnell butt-boy Marco Rubio will be the one and only establishment candidate against the three anti establishment candidates, Cruz, Trump and Carson.

This is how the establishment thinks that they can win.