The Republican cabal’s attempts to stop Donald Trump
are doing nothing in Iowa as the bigoted billionaire has seen his
approval rating increase after his attack on John McCain.
According to a new Monmouth University poll of Iowa:
Trump’s statement about John McCain’s status as a
war hero, made Saturday morning at the Family Leadership Summit in
Ames, IA, generated almost universal backlash from his rivals but does
not seem to have had an immediate impact on his support among Hawkeye
State Republicans. In interviews conducted Thursday and Friday, Trump
garnered 13% of the vote to 19% for Walker. This is only slightly
different than results from the Saturday and Sunday interviews, which
put Trump at 13% to 25%
for Walker.
for Walker.
….
Donald Trump holds a positive 47% favorable
to 35% unfavorable rating, which is better than the 40% favorable to
41% unfavorable rating he received from national Republicans last week.
He has higher favorable ratings among very conservative caucusgoers
(55%) than he does among somewhat conservative (41%) and moderate to
liberal (37%) Iowa Republicans. He also has higher favorability ratings
among Tea Party supporters (56%) compared to non-supporters (39%) and
among men (51%) compared to women (41%).
In other words, the people who support Trump don’t
like McCain and they are probably going to continue supporting the
reality television personality no matter what the media and the
Republican cabal say.
Trump is playing into the Republican myth of the
tough talker by refusing to apologize to McCain. Trump is on a
demented ego trip, but he is speaking the language of a segment of the
Republican cabal that abandoned reality years ago. The Republican plan
to use his remarks about McCain to rid themselves of Donald Trump could
be backfiring.
Republicans may have picked the wrong Senator to
serve as their victim. McCain has long been distrusted and disliked by wingnuts. John McCain is viewed in some corners of the political
world as more a media creation than a beloved public figure. It
turns out that the right-wingnuts are so crazy that attacking McCain
made Trump more popular.
Donald Trump may very well destroy the Republican cabal - and that would be a good thing.
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