Serious Surge for Trump in Polls, Rand Paul Named 'Biggest Loser -'Pretty Embarrassing to Trail Donald with Evangelicals'

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump has soared in the polls and now leads the field of Republicans vying to be the next president of the United States.

by Joe Kovacs

Two new polls released Monday show a surge of support for Donald Trump in the Republican race for president, with Carly Fiorina said to be on fire and Rand Paul called “the biggest loser” in the early voting state of Iowa.

Trump experienced a seven-point jump in the Morning Consult poll, leading the GOP pack at 32 percent. His next closest rival, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, clocked in at 11 percent. Trump’s cushion is so large in the survey, he leads the next three candidates combined.

“Trump’s support shows no evidence of slipping after he told a CNN anchor on Friday night that [Megyn] Kelly, one of three moderators overseeing the Fox News debate, had ‘blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever,’” Morning Consult’s Reid Wilson wrote about the poll.

Trump’s favorability ratings also skyrocketed in the Morning Consult survey.

“The share of Republican primary voters who say they view Trump favorably increased since the last tracking poll, to 62 percent from 57 percent,” Wilson wrote. “But the number of registered voters who say they see Trump unfavorably remains high, 52 percent of all voters say they see him in a negative light. That makes Trump both the most popular candidate within the Republican field and the least popular candidate Republicans could nominate for next year’s general election.”

Meanwhile, Public Policy Polling surveyed Iowa voters in the aftermath of Thursday’s first round of GOP debates and Trump’s verbal skirmish with Megyn Kelly.

Trump ranks No. 1 at 19 percent in that poll, compared to 12 percent for Ben Carson and Scott Walker, 11 percent for Jeb Bush, 10 percent for Carly Fiorina, 9 percent for Ted Cruz, and 6 percent for Mike Huckabee and Marco Rubio.

“Donald Trump’s public fight with Fox News might hurt him in the long run,” said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. “But for the time being he continues to lead the pack.”

The other nine candidates are all clustered between 3 percent and having no support at all (George Pataki).

John Kasich and Rand Paul are at 3 percent, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum at 2 percent, Chris Christie at 1 percent, and Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, and Pataki all have less than 1 percent.

“Trump does have the advantage with pretty much every segment of the GOP electorate,” PPP noted. “He’s up with evangelicals, men, women, voters in every age group, moderates, voters who are most concerned with having the candidate who is most conservative on the issues, and voters who are most concerned about having a candidate who can win the general election.”

Meanwhile, Public Policy Polling surveyed Iowa voters in the aftermath of Thursday’s first round of GOP debates and Trump’s verbal skirmish with Megyn Kelly.

Trump ranks No. 1 at 19 percent in that poll, compared to 12 percent for Ben Carson and Scott Walker, 11 percent for Jeb Bush, 10 percent for Carly Fiorina, 9 percent for Ted Cruz, and 6 percent for Mike Huckabee and Marco Rubio.

“Donald Trump’s public fight with Fox News might hurt him in the long run,” said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. “But for the time being he continues to lead the pack.”

The other nine candidates are all clustered between 3 percent and having no support at all (George Pataki).

John Kasich and Rand Paul are at 3 percent, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum at 2 percent, Chris Christie at 1 percent, and Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, and Pataki all have less than 1 percent.

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“Trump does have the advantage with pretty much every segment of the GOP electorate,” PPP noted. “He’s up with evangelicals, men, women, voters in every age group, moderates, voters who are most concerned with having the candidate who is most conservative on the issues, and voters who are most concerned about having a candidate who can win the general election.”

Public Policy Polling says the biggest winner coming out of the debate appears to be Carly Fiorina.

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