In another act of political magic, Trump managed to flip his favorability rating from negative to positive in one poll during the span of a month — a feat that Monmouth University’s Patrick Murray called “astounding.”
“That defies any rule in presidential politics that I’ve ever seen,” Murray, the director Monmouth’s Polling Institute, told The Hill.
Trump’s favorability rose from 20 percent to 52 percent among Republican voters between July and August, Monmouth found.
While a later CNN/ORC poll did not find a similar shift in Trump’s favorability, the Monmouth data was yet another sign that he is a candidate to be reckoned with.
“Throw out the rulebook when it comes to Trump, that’s not even in the parameters of what we see as unusual,” Murray said.
Trump’s dominance of the race has flustered the Republican field, with many of the candidates trying their best to bring him back to earth.
But as the attacks on Trump have intensified, so has his level of support.
Polls released Tuesday show Trump lapping the field in New Hampshire, where he leads his nearest Republican rival by 24 percentage points. The story is the same in South Carolina, where the latest poll gave him a 15-point edge.
The pollsters, and the rest of the establishment, have not come to grips that the very field on which they have played for 50+ years has been plowed under and replaced by another one by the people of this country. Those who have governed us have failed in every important way to serve this country and its people for over 50 years, and it finally has people so frustrated that it is coming back to bite them in the arse.
Whatever form of government a nation has, the governors need the consent of the governed. You end up with 5% or 10% of the people that simply won’t listen to you and will do everything possible to undermine you, and you are toast. That is what has happened here.
Simply put, politics is too important to be left to the politicians.
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