Poll: Donald Trump back on top, with Ted Cruz climbing into second
By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Sarah Dutton and Fred Backus
The Republican Race
Thirty-five percent of Republican primary voters support Trump, up 13 points since October, and his highest level of support in CBS News polling. Ted Cruz (16 percent) has moved into second place, while Ben Carson, who led the October poll, has dropped to third.
Republicans react to Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims
Marco Rubio is in fourth place with 9 percent. Jeb Bush is getting the backing of just 3 percent of Republican primary voters nationwide, his lowest percentage to date in CBS News polling. Carly Fiorina’s support has also dropped; she is at just 1 percent now.
Donald Trump heads to Israel in December
Most of the interviews for this poll were conducted before Trump made statements concerning a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Trump voters continue to be more firm in their support. Fifty-one percent of his backers say their minds are made up about him, compared to just a quarter of voters who support a candidate other than Trump.
Trump leads among both men and women. He has more than a 20-point lead among non-college graduates (and a smaller lead among those with a college degree).
But Cruz has made inroads with evangelicals. Carson led with this group in October, but now Cruz and Trump are running neck and neck among them; the two candidates are also close among very conservative Republicans.
the Israel trip is off, and this poll doesn’t include the aftermath of Trump’s unconstitutional proposal to discriminate against American citizens based on their religion.
If you are still for Trump at this point, you are no better than a 1938 Nazi.
sorry better read your Constitution again , and ask Jimmy Carter and FDR, Nazi you sound like a media parrot, talking point fail , Obama is the nearest thing to a dictator this country has every seen ,oh that right I am not allowed to say that .btw he jumped 8 point in NH since he comment.
The silent majority will vote for trump , with Cruz as vp.
They will wiin in a landslide.
Jimmy Carter did not go after a whole religion, as for FDR no excuse, what he did was based on war time hysteria. Not quite sure what the constitution has to say on this.
Wouldn’t most historians say FDR is the closest thing to a dictator the US has ever seen? 4 terms, New Deal, pack the court, wartime controls, etc.
He’s proposing the same that Carter did in 1979 with Iran and FDR did with potential German Italian and Japanese immigrants. Selective exclusion is as american as apple pie when you look at our history.
In a Dec. 10 guest editorial in The New York Times, Peter J. Spiro, professor of immigration and constitutional law at Temple University, wrote: “Trump’s anti-Muslim plan is awful. And constitutional.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/trumps-anti-muslim-plan-is-awful-and-constitutional.html
4:01pm, Trump has publicly stated that Cruz’s foreign birth means that he would need to prove his eligibility in court. The same Natural Born Citizen requirement that has applied to candidates for President since the Constitution was ratified has applied to candidates for Vice-President since the twelfth amendment was ratified in 1804. Don’t look for Trump to place his ticket in jeopardy by asking Cruz to join him as the VP candidate.