Pollsters dumbfounded by Trump
Pollsters dumbfounded by Trump
How long will this go on? The more Trump is attacked, the higher he gets in the polls!
Polling experts agree on one thing when it comes to Donald Trump’s presidential run: They’ve never seen anything like it.
The billionaire businessman’s dominance of the Republican presidential race is forcing experienced political hands to question whether everything they know about winning the White House is wrong.
The shocks have come in quick succession, with Trump first rocketing to the top of national polls, and then taking double-digit leads in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
In another act of political magic, Trump managed to flip his favorability rating from negative to positive in one poll during the span of a month — a feat that Monmouth University’s Patrick Murray called “astounding.”
Trump’s favorability rose from 20 percent to 52 percent among Republican voters between July and August, Monmouth found.
But as the attacks on Trump have intensified, so has his level of support.
Polls released on Tuesday show Trump lapping the field in New Hampshire, where he leads his nearest Republican rival by 24 percentage points. The story is the same in South Carolina, where the latest poll gave him a 15-point edge.
Pollsters dumbfounded by Trump
How long will this go on? The more Trump is attacked, the higher he gets in the polls!