CNN Poll: Trump Tied for First Place in Race for GOP Nomination…
The direct result of a pathetic GOP field that starts with bad and ends with worse.
(The Hill) — Real estate mogul Donald Trump is tied for first in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll of Republicans.
Nineteen percent of Republicans named Trump, who’s currently flirting with a run for the party’s presidential nomination, as their top choice for the nomination, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday. Another 13 percent said that Trump was their second choice in a nominee.
That level of support is enough to tie Trump with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whom 19 percent of Republicans named as their top choice to face off against President Obama in 2012.
Trump’s surge still serves as one of the most interesting — and most surprising — developments in the still-early race for the Republican nomination next year. A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll pegged him as tied for second place last week, reflecting a growth in his support no doubt served by his high level of media saturation, and professed suspicion that Obama might not have been born in the U.S. Trump scored 10 percent in last month’s CNN poll, essentially doubling his support over the course of a month.
Fifty-six percent of Republicans in the CNN poll said they would like to see Trump seek the nomination, a less encouraging figure than for Huckabee or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Seventy-two percent of Republicans said they want to see Huckabee run, while 66 percent said the same of Romney.
The most curious numbers in the poll reflect drops in support for Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich over the past month. Eleven percent of Republicans said they want to see Romney win the nomination, down from 18 percent last month.
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Is he supposed to be a vote splitter? Doesn’t smell right to me.
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?p=89078751
I don’t understand why the conservatives are so reluctant to run.
So far only Cain and Bachman are any good at all.
What is this clownish nonsense? I want to see Col. West or Christie…
It’s a pity Mike Pence decided not to run. Maybe DeMint will eventually toss his hat in the ring.
Am I the only one who hates this dude with a passion? He is such a attention whoring, philandering, sleazy, POS that I can’t see why any Conservatives would be slightly interested in him as our President. What, he’s good at business? Hermann Cain is better and I trust him on social issues and as an honest human being.
I would take him over any freaking RINO….
Smarmy with a combover. Never a good combo….
I don’t trust this guy. Like him, yes. Trust…NO!! Where’s Herman Cain? The media is baiting the conservatives….it appears to be working.
Personally, I like him. At least he has balls and has some business sense about him. Lee Kwan Yew was a ballsy business guy who turned around Singapore…we need SOMEONE with guts that isn’t afriad to battle like a Demint or a Christy but those guys aren’t in (yet).
Also, let’s kick the Dem’s asses in the 12 senate races, too. That would go a long way to righting the ship.
This pandering media whore is the best we have to offer? Trump is a complete opportunist and the fact that is has gained so much support shows just how detached so many of the republicans are. He’d be about as productive in halting the socialist onslaught of our country as electing mitt romney.
Who are the idiots who believe in Romney and Huckabee? seriously, I have been to all kinds of Conservative blogs and no one is backing those two, so what’s the deal with all the lying?
Go Trump Go…just heard Bill Krystal spout off saying the majority of republicans ‘I’ talk to don’t want him to run….of course the don’t you clueless wonder who pushed McRINO on us from the start….he’s not one of your club-house big-wigs.
Living in an elite bubble must be so nice…they think they know all and force it on us…well not this time…I will not hold my nose ever again and vote for others say we should because of the lesser of two evils, it’s all or nothing for us here- we’ve had our fill.
No Christie! This one is another RINO!
He wants illegal immigration allowed and so I say: Wake the frig up people, he allows the creeping sharia in America to continue by appointing another anti American death cultist to the NJ judical bench -’nuff said (I would hope so anyway).
It is a shame too that Ann Coulter would want the RINO Christie for prez (WTF?).
At the least, he’s more electable than Romney, Huckabee, or Palin.
Redwine
I honestly believe Pence was our best chance at winning once the general public got to know him.
None of these people are going to beat Obama. Without a fired-up conservative base we’re doomed to another 4 years of hope and change.
deez
We followed the “electable” theme with juan mccain in 2008, along with the notion that he was going to bring in all of those independents, and that certainly worked out well.
It’s Palin all the way (if she runs).
How about we start nominating folks based on principles and not this ridiculous notion of supposed “electability”?
Put a gun to my head, and I’d probably pick him over the huckster. I’d take Palin in a minute, but 60% of everyone else would NOT… Backmann seems like a lightweight, and a bit of a flipper. Christie is tied up w/ Jersey, and will be for a while. Cain I like, West needs a few terms in congress, get a record. Pawlenty I don’t know…
No. I’m not voting for Trump.
I just got the stink of McCain out of the gloves I wore in the voting booth.
So, Trump really is on Obama’s payroll. Imagine that?
Pete (Detroit)
Palin’s media induced bad poll #’s are nothing that a good ole fashioned campaign can’t fix- especially as we creep towards $5 gasoline.
She claims to have tons of footage of ANWR revealing it as nothing but a desolate waste land. Her first campaign add could be the audio of barry soetoro in the 2008 campaign claiming “under my administration energy prices will necessarily skyrocket”.
Trump is an attention whore. He may be doing everyone a huge favor by investigating the BC issue but don’t think for a minute he’s doing it out of patriotism or a sense of right and wrong. I wouldn’t trust this scumbag as far as I could throw him.
@Defender of the West – Just saw your comment, well put.
Cain, West, Pence, Pawlenty, Bachman, Brewer, Bolton are on my short list. I won’t consider Trump as anyjting more than an attention hog until he starts filling in the blanks, like foreign policy, domestic policy, budgetary philosophy, constitutional law, taxes, abortion ETC. We all know Obama is a Kenyan, Donald.
The traditionalist Republicans would rather lose than have someone like Trump or Palin leading their party.
Linked at Reaganite Republican-
Donald Trump is Winning Me Over… and Quick
Pure name recognition. I know name recognition in politics. I live and vote in MN.
Trump is just the “flavor of the day” since he’s made news questioning Obama’s B/C secrecy. Next week it will be another. Looking forward to Sarah tossing her hat in the ring….
@Dave, I can understand your point of view, but I don’t think it is a case of Republicans being detached – more like “desperate”.
With a current field of Romney, Huckleberry, Gingrich, even Pawlenty – YIKES – the only good one currently even partly in the mix is Herman Cain (and he has not yet formally announced). So if Cain ain’t running, Palin deosn’t step in, West stays in Congress, etc – then heck, the Donald it is. If I only had to choose between craphead obamao and Trump, then it is a no-brainer – it’s Trump going away. I’d much rather not, but as much as he is an opportunist and media whore and I don’t really trust him – I do believe that he loves the country, essentially speaks his mind, and will make some changes to business-as-usual in DC.
The consevatives that ran last time were treated shamefully. Fred Thompson was either ignored or insulted. We had a black conservative, and for the life of me, I can’t remember his name. But he had to fight to even be able to debate.
The media was pushing Huckabee and McCain, and the dems were voting in our primaries for those two. Then Huck and McLame teamed up against Thompson.
We must begin to fight for fair voting and stop the cheating dems.
Why does all this trigger my red flag meter?
“Idiocracy” wasn’t too far off – except instead of a professional wrestler for POTUS, we have basically a pro wrestling promoter who might be running for office.
This whole thing is starting to look like a bad soap, with a crazy bastard going after the president, and an even crazier president who has no issues with going after anybody who says anything about him, from public figure to citizen in the street. It’s going to be a cat-fight.
While it’s all popcorn worthy – it’s a really, really sad commentary on the country that we’ve gotten here.
I’ve already lived through Arnold getting elected here in CA for no other reason than “being a really cool cyborg” and now we’ve got crazy jerry back driving the bus as all the passengers laugh as we fly through the air plummeting towards the river below.
So now the GOP will do their job of dismissing folks like Palin, West and Cain and promoting the same tired old names because they’ll play the same old tired games.
And we’ll have Trump as a wild card, who is going to be another H. Ross Perot vote sucking beast at the end of this whole thing.
This isn’t a fucking ride at six flags. God help us all.
ThomNJ
I believe Palin will step in given the current field. Her entire life she has been fighting the establisment and fighting those around her telling her she needs to sit down. The current situation is really no different.
I like everything I have read and heard so far about Cain/West. If it comes down to the donald of course i would vote for him, but i won’t be working very hard to get him elected.
Somehow a guy who financially supported charlie rangel, rahm emanuel, hillary clinton, and many other socialist whackjobs just loses a lot of appeal with me.
While I like much of what Trump has been saying recently, and I don’t disagree with him for the most part, he needs to get some new talking points. Several interviews I have seen of him in the last 2 weeks have had the same script, which makes it sound, well, scripted. And I am getting an Ahnald vibe off of him.
Uncle monkey
I haven’t lost hope because i think Palin will enter and she will win. If she doesn’t get the nomination, she will at the very least expose many of the other canidates as RINOS and hopefully another conseravative will come out on top.
This year at CPAC, a Palin-look-a-like totally overshadowed mittens romneycare- imagine when the real one shows up to debate the issues. She crushed the 35 year sitting senator for 90 minutes in the VP debate with the worthless mccain people prepping her. Now that she has actual competent staff surrounding her she just might be unstoppable.
as long as the conservitives run on,GOD,GUNS and GAYS they are toast.
I would vote for Sponge Bob over obama.
Trump is doing a service by bringing obama’s dirt to light, so the real candidate can avoid the mocking from the MSM.
What bothers me is that Trump reportedly supported obama in 2010, when anyone who was paying attention already knew obama was racist, anti-American, in league with Bill Ayres, Rev Wright church, questionable birthright, inexperienced, etc, etc, etc.
The fact that he ties with Schmukabee says a lot.
What kind of idiots did they poll?
Let me blunt. It’s obvious from reading this thread many conservatives need to grow up.
Obama is destroying the nation. If you are a patriot and love your country, then you need to vote Obama out. Period, end of story. Even if it’s voting for the lesser of two evils. Conservatives took their ball home in ’06 and ’08, didn’t vote and we wind up with this regime. Great job to all who stayed home. You’re almost as much to blame as the nitwits who voted Democrat. Anyone who thinks McCain wouldn’t have been better is clueless.
It’s up to us to empower the Tea Party and weed out the RINOs. Given what happened in 2010 I believe it’s very doable. RINOs got creamed in the 2010 primaries. It can happen again. We must make it happen again.
The primary process hasn’t even begun and many of us are whining and crying like libs already. WAAAAAAH! I’m going home and taking my ball! Pathetic.
The ONLY ones that say they might be running and aren’t two faced political scum are Cain , Palin, Bachman, and Trump. Only Cain and Trump have so far had the balls to NOT be politically correct. I’ll take a unafraid non-PC tell-it-like-it-is candidate over any two faced afraid to criticize obama weak minded pussy any day.
And I agree with what MN Jim says. At least Trump is bringing the joker obaMAO to his knees!
Well said, Proud Infidel. Well said.
Here’s Trump takin hard ball questions.
http://online.wsj.com/video/trump-as-independent-in-2012/75187604-AAA1-4A45-AC20-E3030EC5D45F.html
Hey if Trump brings to light something about the bc that’s more than enough of a win for me.
I like what Trump says at this point. I’d personally like Herman Cain or Allen West or Sarah Palin. Voting for Trump wouldn’t scare me as much as voting for an established RINO or a democrat.
At least Trump has the balls to say what he feels…and have a plan to do it. Not this hope and change garbage.
Airboss – Brewer / Bolton – THERE’S a ticket!
I know some may consider this blasphemy but I just thought of this…could the Donald be almost like Reagen in some way.
Reagen was a lib early in life but then came to the light and easily became one of the best presidents in the last 50 years. Maybe the Donald has had his seeing the light moment. They made fun of Reagen because he was just an actor…while the Donald gets the label of reality tv star. But they both built successful endeavors (Reagen in California, Trump businesswise).
Plus I think Donald Trump is much more intelligent than people give him credit for. And he can smell bullcrap from a mile away. I’m hoping he runs now…he’s going to make 2012 much more entertaining.
@commieobamie
Trump running as an independent and splitting the conservative vote would be bad. VERY bad.
Chill, peeps. Palin’s got this. Trump isn’t really going to run. His talk of running is a tactic. A good tactic. Trump’s aim is to defeat Obama. The attacks Trump is making on Obama are not crazy or extreme or bizarre. He is saying what every elected Republican should be saying every day.
Didn’t General Patton have a famous Daily Standing Order: Attack, attack, attack!
Redwine says:
April 12, 2011 at 12:18 pm
It’s a pity Mike Pence decided not to run. Maybe DeMint will eventually toss his hat in the ring.
DeMint and West have said they would run if their country needed them and I think they would. What I find great about Trump’s new found popularity is that it shows people are hungering and thirsting for someone who is not politically correct, someone who will say exactly what is on our minds regarding the birth certificate (which opens the door to all the other hidden documents) and someone with the balls to complain about the nincompoops driving the economy.
We cannot allow the media or the GOP to decide our candidates. We have several contenders that I could vote for: Bolton, Cain, Palin, Bachman – maybe West/DeMint will step forward. Regardless of who is nominated I will VOTE AGAINST OBAMA.
Are you guys kidding, if Palin runs it will be Obama again…..Palin drug the ticket down last year and will do it again if given the chance….Cain/Bolton/West or that vein, not another Katie Couric implosion on camera that dooms the ticket…
Gforce
Anyone who claims Palin did anything other then ensure juan mccain didn’t get trounced by 30 points is a troll.
She breathed life into his campaign and the ONLY time he was ever leading in the polls was after he picked her as his VP.
If you continue to allow the media to sway your opinion on a canidate then just wait until Cain/Bolton/West begin to receive bad press from the media if either of them are ever at the top of a ticket threating barry O, me thinks you will be abandoning them as well.
Thank God I never had to serve in combat next to you!
Trump is a media whore, yes! But he is sticking his finger in obumblers eye every time he opens his mouth. He is doing the republicans a good deal. This should open up the debate as if should have 3 years ago.
As far as my choice, I like Cain right now. Although he sometimes sticks his foot in his mouth.
The rest of the repubs are squishes as far as I am concerned.
I agree with Proud Infidel. Donald Trump is this country’s only hope. The ‘vote splitting’ has already been done and viciously by embedded GOP. The Republican Party was completely dead until the Tea Party, but the GOP did not want the new people, was happy being in the minority, and publicly stated their number one priority was silencing the new people. No conservative hero such as Pence could have or will win. The remaining GOP will not allow it. Most of the GOP would be very happy to have Obama again, and are eager to scold conservatives for not liking him. Our country has been lost along with lifetimes of work and sacrifice. I don’t see a possibility of current Republicans winning. None of them will stand up to the media and Obama. Trump is the only one willing to do both.
Is it just me or does Trump’s potential candidacy for 2012 have the smell of a false flag operation? I mean given the guys recent political history in regard to who he has donated money to and supported and which issues he has championed, it appears that he behaves more like a progressive democrat rather than a conservative Republican. Is it just possible that the Democrats have got themselves a ringer for 2012? There very own Ross Perot to split the conservative vote and ensure an Obama victory? Think about it, what would be the perfect dog whistle issue that said candidate could use establish his bona fides with the conservative base? Perhaps something like the Obama birth certificate controversy? Seriously I’m beginning to get the feeling that we are being played for chumps by Trump. In fact that would be a perfect campaign slogan “Don’t get played for a Chump by Trump”.
I like the heat he’s throwing bo’s way and hopes he keeps that going. Not conservative enough for me, but will have to see who has the guts to run. Whoever it is, has to have the conviction and fortitude to clean up this mess we’re in. I can see him taking over geitner’s position. At least Donald has actual financial experience.