I don’t think it would matter what party Trump was running as, he’d still be leading the polls... I was hugely skeptical of trump, and I am still no fan politically, but it is beyond obvious to anyone with 2 working eyes why he is destroying the rest of the republican field right now.
I have no doubt general election polling will show him garnering large support among both the independent and democratic voters shortly.
Trump is the only person who can beat Trump at this point. Democrats have a shrill unpopular candidate and a horrible guy waiting in the wings, and republicans don’t have a single candidate with persona who can break out of the preaching to the converted subgroup.
There is a lot of time left, but I really don’t see any candidate on either side of the aisle that is going to catch him. Time will tell, but with Hillary, Jeb et al playing the old school political game while Trump is out there writing his own rules, he makes them all look like the tired cookie cutter same old same old they all are that got us into the mess.
You bring up a point: Why no polls of D and I voters on Trump yet?
My entire white, middle class, D, union member family in CA is ALL TRUMP. All of them. I never said a word to them.
Traditional white middle class libs have had it too.