Posted on 05/05/2016 5:39:50 PM PDT by Red Steel
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has a nearly 40-point lead over his competition in West Virginia, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday.
Trump has 61 percent support in the Mountaineer State, which holds its GOP primary on May 10, and rival Ted Cruz follows with 22 percent. John Kasich comes in last with 14 percent.
Trump also has a high favorability rating among GOP voters in the state: 67 percent, while only 24 percent view him negatively.
Cruz and Kasich both have 32 percent favorability ratings. The Ohio governor is viewed negatively by 50 percent of GOP voters, and Cruz by 53 percent of voters.
According to the survey, 12 percent of voters say Cruz adding former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate makes them more likely to vote for the Texas senator, and 31 percent say the addition makes them less likely to vote for Cruz. More than half say they don't care either way.
Trump is winning among independents planning to vote in the GOP primary, among moderates and "somewhat conservative" voters.
He is also leading among "very conservative" voters, though by a smaller margin.
In a general election match-up between Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Trump leads Clinton in West Virginia 57 to 30 percent. He also leads Bernie Sanders 56 to 35 percent. Cruz and Kasich also both lead the Democratic candidates in the state.
The poll was conducted among 1,201 West Virginia voters from April 29 to May 1. The margin of error is 2.8 percentage points overall. Among the sample of 549 likely Republican primary voters, the margin of error is 4.2 percentage points.
Interestingly, that's the same margin Romney beat barky by.
And this was a state Bill won easily in ‘92.
Trump needs to campaign in all the remaining states, against the delegate shadow filchers. This is also the opportunity to begin running his general campaign against Hillary, thus pushing the remaining anti-Trump saboteurs more clearly in her camp.
Yep I agree. Trump is in Nebraska tomorrow.
TTTT!
Update: Trump will be in Omaha, Nebraska and Eugene, Oregon tomorrow.
And then on Saturday Trump goes to Spokane, Washington.
At 1:05 - 1:08 in WV rally, Trump shows crowd "It's really my hair."
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