Poll: Most GOP voters see
Trump winning nomination, 12/11/15,
By Mark Hensch
Seventy percent of Republican voters
believe Donald Trump will be the GOP presidential nominee in 2016, according to
a new poll from the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports.
Approximately 31 percent say Trump
is “very likely” to win the GOP nod, while just 21 percent say he is “unlikely”
to be the party's nominee. Ten percent say Trump is “not at all likely" to
be the nominee.
Those who support Trump's
controversial call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. are even
more likely to think he'll be the nominee.
About 73 percent who agree say the
outspoken businessman will win the GOP nod, with 39 percent saying it is “very
likely.”
About 55 percent of voters in both
parties say Trump will be the Republican Party's likely presidential nominee,
with 25 percent calling him “very likely” and 30 percent “somewhat likely.”
Roughly 38 percent think he is
unlikely to win. Rasmussen Reports conducted its
latest sampling of 1,000 likely voters Dec. 8-9. It has a 3 percent margin
of error at the 95 percent confidence level.
Trump’s remarks on Islam earlier
this week have inspired fierce backlash from many of his fellow Republicans.
Reports emerged Friday
that GOP elites are now weighing a brokered convention next year should Trump’s
popularity hold.
More than 20 top party officials —
including Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus — discussed the
rare measure during a dinner last Monday evening.
Retired neurosurgeon and White House
rival Ben Carson fiercely criticized the
alleged conference Friday given its implications for political outsiders like
himself and Trump.
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