The latest Fox News poll, which was conducted with the assistance of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), has billionaire developer Donald Trump trouncing the rest of the field of 2016 GOP presidential candidates with 25% support of those polled.
The telephone poll of 1,008 registered voters was conducted between August 11-13, 2005, and had margin of error of three percentage points.Q: I’m going to read a list of potential candidates for the 2016 Republican nomination. Please tell me which one you would like to see as the Republican presidential nominee. Well, if you had to decide today, which one would you choose
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This is pretty bad for the rest of the GOP field.
But while Trump shows consistency with support in the GOP presidential primary, in a head-to-head matchup against Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, Trump lags by 5 percentage points, whereas Senator Marco Rubio, who a scrapping 6 percent of support in the primary, and Jeb Bush, who garners 12 percent, both bests Clinton by 2 points.