Posted on 02/11/2016 4:27:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Didn't CNN and Fox News polls have Trump beating Ted Cruz by a massive 11% with just a few days to go for the Iowa Caucus? And weren't those polls posted repeatedly on the sidebar here at Freerepublic by gloating Trumpbots?
Yesterday, Cruz held a rally of 200 people, while Trump rallied about 5,000.
You mean just like in Iowa where Trump had all these “YUUUGE” crowds?
The GOP Establishment Will Not Find Salvation in South Carolina - The only candidate who can beat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz, and vice versa.
“A week ago, the Republican establishment thought it had found a savior. Sen. Marco Rubio, fresh from his third-place finish in Iowa, had momentum and was doing well in general-election polls. Mainstream Republicans were ready to coalesce behind him. The prospect of having to nominate Sen. Ted Cruz or Donald Trump-who finished first and second in Iowa, respectively-seemed to be receding.
New Hampshire dashed these hopes. Trump won big, and Rubio fell to fifth place. The Florida senator trailed two other mainstream candidates, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Rubio even lost to Cruz, who came in third despite investing only $500,000 in an inhospitable state. That result, combined with the terrain ahead, spells big trouble for the GOP. Polls in South Carolina, which votes next on Feb. 20, make a strong case that Trump and Cruz will finish first and second, shutting out Rubio and Bush again. The Trump-Cruz stranglehold on the nomination is tightening.
In the past month, three public surveys have examined the race in South Carolina. All three were taken between Jan. 15 and Jan. 23: a CBS News/YouGov survey, a Marist poll for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, and an OpinionSavvy poll for the Augusta Chronicle. In all three polls, Trump led by a wide margin, and Cruz came in second. The average result was 36 percent for Trump, 20 percent for Cruz, 13 percent for Rubio, and 10 percent for Bush. Kasich barely registered at 2 percent. The Chronicle poll tested a scenario similar to where we are now: a five-man field of Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, and Ben Carson. Given those options, 32 percent of South Carolina Republicans chose Trump, 18 percent chose Cruz, 13 percent chose Bush, and 11 percent chose Rubio.
If you’re a Republican who dreads a Trump or Cruz nomination, that’s only the beginning of the bad news................”
All this folderol about the GOP establishment is nothing but PR to make the dopes look like they/re still viable.
The GOPeers might be stupid but they know a message when they hear it.
That would be the message from the grassroots......if you want to keep your party.....hands off our election.
The buzz in DC is that Reince and the rest of the GOPeers are coming to the next primary states......and have NO intention of stopping Trump.
Caucus states are always harder to poll, because they demand more time. SC is a primary state. Real Clear Politics had Trump at 31 in NH, he won with 35, so he was under polling in a primary state.
We all have to wait and see, but I believe Trump will emerge the winner in SC, probably by a good size margin.
Actually, he looks sad. But it is a better picture than “Star Wars Ted”, which we haven’t seen in awhile.
In Iowa, RCP had Trump up by 4.7; Cruz took it by 3.3, that’s an 8 point swing.
Over 80% of those who voted Republican at NH did not vote for Cruz!
“Yesterday, Cruz held a rally of 200 people, while Trump rallied about 5,000.”
But per the MSM, Cruz’s rally was “raucous” which rhymes with caucus, which starts with `c’ which rhymes with `t’ and that means trouble, with a capital T, right here in River City.
I don't always do desperate things to win a caucus, but when I do, I send voter shaming letters to get more votes. Stay shamed, my friends, stay shamed.
Imagine the Trump Cleansing Tornado hitting DC in January 2017, minutes after he is sworn in.
Come January 2017, we’ll see what a real Trumpertantrum looks like as he repeals every EO of the current Imam in Chief.
35% of those who voted in the GOP primaries in New Hampshire were not even Republicans. They were independents. New Hampshire is the least religious state in the entire country and the 5th most liberal. NH couldn’t be more different from South Carolina or the SEC states on March 1st. Those states are more like Iowa than anything else.
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Agreed, the article is nothing more than a Cruz add. You know, suppose Cruz wins, that’s a game changer! lol lol lol
Well, suppose Bush wins. But why no discussion about who is most likely to win, and if that is “big” or not? No, he needs stopped, by Cruz, the only one who can stop him. No, he is just among all the others, it is anyone’s race. lol What a joke.
If Bush was at 35%, it would be declared over, and all they would talk about would be his upcoming race against Hillary.
Trump is ahead, so they run exposes on how Gilmore still had a chance. It’s absurd.
88 % of those, who voted for the Republican side did not vote for Cruz regardless if they were from Mars/Venus or they were independents, republicans, democrats, socialists or from Masshole.
Will that trend continue? We do not know.
This pic was obviously snapped before Cruz got his
Count Chocula eyebrows botoxed.....so they don't move
when he talks. ROTFLOL.
Eric Trump will probably be standing by with an I pad loaded with every anti America/American EO signed by the Jihadist in chief. President Trump will sign the repealing of every EO.
Those EOs will be history like the Jihadist.
This reality has the GOPe, Open Border thugs and the rat donors in terror of what Trump will do.
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