Posted on 04/15/2016 2:18:24 PM PDT by No Dems 2016
Donald Trump is poised to run away with next week’s Republican primary in New York, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC New York/Marist poll shows.
The New York businessman leads his closest rival, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, by 29 percentage points among likely Republican primary voters, 54% to 25%, the poll finds. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a distant third, as the top choice of 16% of likely Republican voters.
The results for Mr. Trump mirror a survey released earlier this week by the Journal, NBC News and Marist that also showed the Republican front-runner with 54% support. The biggest potential development to come from the latest batch of data is the emergence of Mr. Kasich as the clear second-place alternative to Mr. Trump.
“If there’s someone to watch in the closing hours, closing days, it’s Kasich,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. He said the Ohio governor seems to owe his rise to Cruz voters, because support for the Texas senator recently has trailed off while support for Mr. Trump has not diminished.
With the front-runner holding such a big lead, suspense in the contest focuses more on the size of Mr. Trump’s expected winning margin than on whether he will claim victory. He needs to eclipse the 50% threshold in as many of New York’s 27 congressional districts as possible to collect the lion’s share of the state’s 95 delegates.
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Among Republican primary voters, Mr. Trump performs slightly better in and around New York City than he does upstate, but he exceeds the 50% mark in both regions.
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If Trump can’t get 55% he should just drop out of the race.
Just wait. It will probably come.
Well, that's a kind way to put it.
If Cruz finishes a distant third and 40 points behind Trump, what a kick in the stomach it will be.
You would think.
Still, in other losses Ted called them big wins for his team.
Strangely, some folks really seemed to believe him too.
Yes. Ted has had a very bad week. He will be shut out of NY entirely. It will be an accomplishment for him to break 15%. Colorado is going to turn out to be his high water mark.
Cruz is dropping like a rock after that rigged CO outcome.
I think you’re right. The negative coverage on that seems to be taking a toll. Did you see the Fox News (national) poll out yesterday?
If Trump were as popular in NY as everyone depicts him, he should be getting 60, 70, or even 80 percent. So the tells me almost half of NY’ers could care less of the Trumpster.
ROTFLMAO! Ted Cruz can't even top John Kasich in these New England states!
Yeap, quite a viable candidate you Cruzbots have yourself there: can't win the South. Can't win the Northeast. Can't win in Florida. Exactly where does Ted Cruz expect to get the rest of his delegates and achieve a majority?
Oh, that's right: Cruz can't get a majority.
All Cruz can do is play directly into the hands of the GOPe in their effort to sabotage the party's own frontrunner.
Ihe GOPe and Ted Cruz are on an apparent suicide mission to ignore the voters & splinter their party irreparably as a result.
So be it.
Conservative "purists" (not that it's possible to be "pure" by embracing the unprincipled and nakedly opportunist Cruz campaign) have truly jumped the shark this time around.
Bring it on. Let the bloody battle ensue. No apologies once the smoke clears...
Cruz has never been a person with a movement behind him this entire election.
People forget that he was trailing Carson, and in single digits last November.
Cool. Well, let’s see how those delegate totals look after the next two Tuesdays pass, shall we?
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I did.
Cruz is dropping hard and fast.
Notice how quite the Boot Lickers have been since this started.
Cruz will still say he “won”.
Well, Wisconsin will be because that’s the last victory he had where people actually voted.
Three way is a whole different ball game.
What about Cruz winning his home state of Texas by only 43%.
Trump is set to win his home state by a larger margin than Cruz won Texas.
The fact is Cruz is dropping like a rock after that CO trickery.
He has no shame only an unquenchable thirst for power....
he's actually campaigning on his vote-less Colorado win.
Cruz's non-stop Trump bash-a thon also contributed to his collapse.
The super-smart Ivy Leaguer never factored in that millions
who are supporting Trump might get pissed-off over that?
Watta dunce.
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