Sunday, July 26, 2015

AFP: Trump surge among Republican voters shows no sign of abating - "Trump at the front of 16-candidate Republican pack with 18 percent, and Bush in second with 15 percent."


Trump surge among Republican voters shows no sign of abating

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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's wild ride to the front of the Republican presidential field showed no signs of abating Sunday, with a new poll showing him with a big lead in a key early primary state.

A CNN/ORC poll, meanwhile, found that most Republicans voters want to see him stay in the race and 22 percent thought he would be their party's eventual nominee, ahead of every other candidate except Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor whose brother and father were presidents.
The CNN poll put Trump at the front of 16-candidate Republican pack with 18 percent, and Bush in second with 15 percent.
"I'm not that surprised, because I see the kind of a crowd we're getting," Trump said in a telephone interview with CNN's State of Union. "We're getting the biggest crowds and we're getting by far the biggest ovations." ...