Surprise: Trump Falls Behind Cruz in National NBC/WSJ Poll

WSJ/NBC ^ | 2-17-16 | Mark Murray

[ifinnegan]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in the national GOP horserace, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

In the poll, Cruz is the first choice of 28 percent of Republican primary voters, while Trump gets 26 percent. They're followed by Marco Rubio at 17 percent, John Kasich at 11 percent, Ben Carson at 10 percent and Jeb Bush at 4 percent.

[Sun]

Actually the more you look at DONALD TRUMP, you will see he is in bed with the GOP ESTABLISHMENT:

“Trump has long praised Mitch McConnell, the man who is the embodiment of why people are fed up with the party and attracted to Trump in the first place. While conservatives were fighting to get rid of McConnell in the 2014 primaries, Trump said, “It would be a shame if he didn’t win, because he has such power, it’s so good for his state.”

It comes as no surprise, then, that late last year Trump criticized Cruz for acting like a “maniac” when he called McConnell a liar. How does Trump plan to fight political correctness and the culture of the D.C. establishment when he has championed the mastermind of the GOP establishment and is offended by the non-politically correct criticism of its leader?”

more: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/trumps-questionable-political-history

In case you didn’t get it after reading the above excerpt, DONALD TRUMP called Cruz a maniac for criticizing McConnell, the head GOP ESTABLISHMENT canadidate.

[lewislynn]

But Cruz bot can will post this poll 100 times till Sunday before tomorrow...

[fooman]

Texas ground game. Coming very soon.

[xzins]

A poll is a picture of what a hopefully, balanced random sample of 4 or 5 hundred voters thought about something on the days the sample was taken.

It’s like looking at a picture of a relative you’ve never met from 2 or 3 days ago. And then you start adding new pictures to an album every week or so. And other people are taking pictures and adding to the set.

After a while you get some idea of what that person looks like.

Sometimes you see a stunning picture. Sometimes it’s a picture you wish someone would hide and never reveal to anyone. But all of them add up to this composite, almost a message not about just looks but also about other things. Clothing styles, activities, expressions, etc.

Even the really lousy picture that you hate tells you something.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I heard he’s a nasty liar that nobody likes.

Slimy; really slimy. I heard he has a thing for unborn children.

[Bidimus1]

After debating with the company’s board of directors, Trump resigned as the company’s chairman and had his corporate stake in the company reduced to 10 percent. The company continued to use Trump’s name in licensing.

politifact.

y 1991, Trump’s corporation had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors of the Taj Mahal Casino Resort, which had cost $1 billion to build. Unable to pay the high interest rates on the junk bonds used to finance the resort’s construction, Trump was forced to surrender half of his ownership interests in the property to bondholders in exchange for their acceptance of lower interest rates.

The only hiccup in the expedited six-week restructuring process came from a company called Dixie-Narco, which had supplied 1,350 bill-changing machines to the Taj Mahal, according to a New York Times report. Dixie-Narco said Trump had improperly solicited bondholders by saying its $6 million claim was worthless. The two sides reached a settlement for $2.4 million, with the Taj Mahal agreeing to give back 500 of the machines.

The Times also reported that Trump faced about $900 million in personal liabilities, which he reduced to about $550 million by the end of the year. The ordeal led to the sale of his Trump Princess Yacht and Trump Shuttle airline.

It provided an important lesson as well. Ted Connolly, a Boston Bankruptcy attorney who studied Trump for his book The Road Out of Debt: Bankruptcy and Other Solutions to Your Financial Problems, told TheStreet in an August interview that the first bankruptcy was a learning experience for Trump.

“The first business bankruptcy, he had a lot of personal liabilities, guarantees on the business debt, which would have wiped him out,” Connolly said. “What he did was leverage the amount of business debt to negotiate away his personal liability. And from that, he learned not to put his personal wealth at risk anymore. And so in the next three, he didn’t have any personal guarantees.”

The Street

So yes Brave Sir Donald learned.. to let others hold the bag when his ventures as he puts it “went into a chapter”

[SaveFerris]

It’s day-in, day-out with NBC. Lester Holt and co. have it the “lead story” nearly every single day. They’ll take any shot they can, distort any story they can.

When they showed a clip of DT saying it’s incredible about how Obama lies about everything (or nearly everything, can’t remember), I about fell off the couch in disbelief.

[fooman]

Trump is going to go SuperNova when he has to admit that he is #2 to Ted.

[SaveFerris]

lol

[MIchaelTArchangel]

T.Rump keeps acting like a petulant spoiled child because he is a petulant spoiled child. The other petulant spoiled children will support him, but the adults will not.

[Jeff Head]

I have been keeping a running average of four major polls since September, each week or two.

This time I have added the actual Primary votes in because those are the ones that count. So what you have is the average numbers between the four latest major polls and the two actual votes to date, IA and NH. I will add the other primaries in as they come.

This is what that average produces this wee as of today, Wednesday, February 17, 2016:

A little erosion overall for Trump, but he is still maintaining a significant lead. Rubio is climbing...as is Kasich. Carson has fallen way off, Bush remains down low.

[SmokingJoe]

That will still be one tenth as many times as the deranged Trumpbots post every single poll that has Trump leading by big margins, including posting these polls at the sidebar every time.

[pookie18]

The results were similar, but this poll was national while Jeb’s was only for SC.

[hawkaw]

I read it too ... over and over.

[hawkaw]

Did you favor Reagan?

[SmokingJoe]

Expect the psychotic Donald Trump to go even more crazy and deranged, let fly with even more vicious nasty insults and threaten even more loudly to bring a lawsuit against Ted Cruz. I’ll believe that lawsuit when I see it. Ted Cruz has dared Trump the crazy loudmouth to bring it on. Still waiting.....

[pookie18]

“Want to know why we don’t support Cruz, he’s a loser in the general and many of us have had enough of pyrrhic victories.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3398406/posts?page=16#16

[gbscott1954]

I sure wouldn't talk about “real conservatism” when I was backing Trump!

[odawg]

NBC has lead off with this; used “stunning” at least twice. Is this the poll that used 400 people over 50 states?

[italianquaker]

Is this an outlier or a result of trumps debate 9/11 meltdown