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    Trump hits a new high in national poll The billionaire businessman surges to 41 per

    Trump hits a new high in national poll

    The billionaire businessman surges to 41 percent after releasing proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.

    By Nick Gass

    12/14/15 12:00 PM EST

    Donald Trump just got a little more vault in his ceiling. Nationwide, the polling-obsessed Manhattan multi-billionaire and leading Republican presidential candidate broke into the 40s on Monday.

    According to the results of the latest Monmouth University poll surveying voters identifying as Republican or independents leaning toward the GOP, Trump earned 41 percent, nearly tripling the support of his closest rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who took 14 percent.

    The poll underscores Trump's success at keeping voters fixated on his unprecedented presidential campaign. The latest national survey was taken after Trump landed another whopper, proposing in an emailed statement last Monday to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. The statement gave Trump another boost of media attention, and some speculated it was designed to shift the conversation away from a Monmouth poll from Iowa released earlier that day that showed Cruz with a 5-point edge in the state.

    Trump was still smarting from that poll last Friday, trashing it during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, though he may change his tune after this latest result.

    Monmouth's survey also held good news for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who moved up to 10 percent support and third place, and bad news for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who plummeted from 18 percent in October to 9 percent in this latest survey. Other candidates, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, polled within the margin of error, with 6 percent remaining undecided.

    Trump celebrated the favorable findings with a series of tweets and a post on Facebook, featuring a graphic, that was shortly taken down after posting, without explanation.

    "Looks like we just broke another polling ceiling," he wrote to his followers. "While the establishment schemes to nominate someone they control - the voters are clearly indicating that they want someone who will fix the broken political system in DC. Thank you for your support! We will ‪#‎MakeAmericaGreatAgain‬!"

    Among various demographic groups, Trump picked up 13 points among those with a high-school education, earning 54 percent support with that group, and 11 points with those identifying with the tea party, earning 52 percent with that group. Cruz, however, picked up 15 points among tea party supporters, receiving 29 percent with that group. Trump's standing among women has fallen slightly, down four points since October (41 percent to 37 percent this time), though he has gained three points with men (41 percent to 44 percent). Among those with a college degree, support for Trump fell by 10 points, from 41 percent to 31 percent.

    In terms of favorability, Cruz led the way with a net positive 40 points (58 percent favorable to 18 percent unfavorable), followed by Rubio at +37 points (55 percent to 18 percent) and Trump at +32 points (61 percent to 29 percent). For Trump, the latest results mark an improvement over the last two months in the Monmouth poll. In October, his favorability sat at 52 percent to 33 percent.

    Regardless of whether they supported Trump, 30 percent said they would be enthusiastic if he were the nominee, compared to 37 percent who said they would be satisfied. Just 12 percent said they would be dissatisfied, while 16 percent said they would be upset.

    Asked whether they agreed that Trump had the proper temperament to be commander-in-chief, 65 percent agreed to some degree, while 33 percent disagreed to some measure. Among voters not supporting Trump or Cruz, however, just 55 percent to 43 percent said Trump's temperament would be a good fit for the White House.
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    The numbers represent a boost for Trump after a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register survey of likely Iowa Republican caucus participants on Saturday found that Cruz held a 10-point advantage over Trump. A Fox News poll gave Cruz a 28 percent-to-26 percent edge. In still another Iowa survey released Monday from Quinnipiac University, likely caucus-goers again indicated an essentially knotted race, with Trump at 28 percent and Cruz at 27 percent, virtually doubling Rubio's 14 percent.

    On Sunday, Trump took the gloves off on Cruz, days after The New York Times reported Cruz had told donors that the judgment of all candidates, including Trump's, should be evaluated. "I don't think he's qualified to be president," Trump said on "Fox News Sunday," remarking that Cruz has been "frankly like a little bit of a maniac" as a senator.

    In response, Cruz tweeted a clip of the song "Maniac" from the 1983 movie "Flashdance."

    The Monmouth poll was conducted Dec. 10-13, surveying 385 registered voters nationwide who identified as Republicans or independents who indicated that they leaned toward the Republican Party. The margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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    December 14, 2015, 12:00 pm
    Trump hits new high in poll

    By Jonathan Easley

    Donald Trump has crossed the 40 percent threshold in a new national poll, giving the Republican presidential candidate the largest lead he’s held in any survey so far.

    A Monmouth University poll released Monday found Trump taking 41 percent support and opening up a 27-point lead over the next closest contender ahead of Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.

    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is a distant second place, taking 14 percent, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at 10 percent and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 9 percent.

    The rest of the Republican field barely registers in the poll, with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich taking 3 percent support each, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) each taking 2 percent.

    The poll was conducted between Dec. 10 and Dec. 13, in the days after Trump made his controversial call to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

    “It has become abundantly clear that Trump is giving his supporters exactly what they want, even if what he says causes the GOP leadership and many Republican voters to cringe,” said Monmouth pollster Patrick Murray.

    The poll registered a 13-point jump for Trump over the same poll from mid-October. Trump’s favorability rating is also on the rise, and now sits at 61 percent positive and 29 percent negative, up from a 52-33 split from the previous poll.

    Cruz and Rubio have each gained four points over the previous poll, while Carson has fallen by nine points.

    The favorability ratings for Cruz and Rubio are also on the rise, with Cruz registering a 58-18 split, and Rubio coming in at 55 percent positive and 18 percent negative. Carson’s favorability rating is comparable at 57-25, but has swung lower since October, when he was viewed positively by 65 percent and negatively by 11 percent.

    The Monmouth survey is the latest in a string of polls to show Trump building on his lead as the focus of the GOP race has turned to national security in the wake of terror attacks in Paris, France and San Bernardino, Calif.

    Trump holds a 13 point lead over the next closest contender, according to the RealClearPolitics average of national polls. He holds comparable leads in the early-voting states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, although Cruz has emerged as the new favorite in Iowa.

    The Monmouth survey found national security is the most important issue to Republican voters, beating out the economy by 20 points.

    The Monmouth poll found one area of vulnerability for Trump. A majority of GOP voters, 55 percent, say he does not have the temperament to be commander in chief, against 43 percent who say he does.

    That’s a line of attack that several GOP contenders have tried against Trump, and one that Cruz test-drove to donors at a fundraiser in Manhattan last week, although he has declined to follow up on it so far.

    Still, most Cruz supporters say Trump does have the temperament to be president, and 63 percent of those backing the Texas Republican say they’d be satisfied with Trump as the nominee.

    Trump dominates among every conservative voting bloc, but does particularly well among Tea Party supporters, taking 52 percent support, and those with only a high school education, taking 54 percent support, according to the poll.

    “Trump voters may skew toward a lower educational level, but it’s important to keep in mind that he draws support from significant segments of every voting bloc,” said Murray. “You simply can’t pigeonhole his supporters as representing one or two particular factions of the party.”

    The Monmouth University survey of 385 registered Republican voters has a 5 percentage point margin of error.

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