After scandalous statements trump's rating continues to grow

Whatever Donald Trump, leading among potential Republican presidential candidates, may say, the majority of Republican voters still give him preference. This is evidenced by the results of recent surveys.

Monday evening Trump caused the storm disturbances in the United States and abroad, proposing to ban Muslims from entering the United States. However, by Thursday, polls, both nationwide and in key states for the election campaign, continued to indicate that Trump’s popularity continued to grow.

According to the latest nationwide poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS News, Trump leads among Republican candidates. He is supported by 35 percent of voters. He is far ahead of Texas senator Ted Cruz, who would have been voted for by 16 percent, and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who is supported by 13 percent of voters. Recent polls in the states have shown that Trump is far ahead of the rest in New Hampshire, competing with Senator Cruise in Iowa and steadily leading in South Carolina.

According to the Fox News poll of Republican voters going to vote for the primaries, potential candidates lined up as follows: Trump - 35%, Carson - 15%, and Cruz and Marco Rubio - by 14%.

Trump's Dilemma

Trump's idea to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US provoked an angry reaction from his rivals in the Republican presidential race and even from Congress leaders. "This proposal is completely contrary to American values," said Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, answering questions from reporters on Capitol Hill. Shortly before him, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that this is not what the Republican Party or country advocates.

However, Trump's rivals did not rule out the possibility of supporting him, if in the end he would become a Republican candidate. The threat of Trump, who stated that if he is not supported by his party, he will continue to race as an independent candidate, continues to hang over the presidential race. According to a survey conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, 68% of Trump's supporters would continue to support him if he became an independent candidate.

Trump's rating continues to rise after recent attacks in Paris and california San Bernardino. What happened in California, especially shocked Americans, and, according to a survey conducted by Bloomberg News, 65 percent of respondents supported Trump's idea of ​​imposing a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the country.

Concerns about terrorism and national security came to the fore in the election campaign. “With regard to external, international issues, the main question, starting with the 11 attacks of September 2001, is how the president will ensure the security of the country and its citizens,” says analyst Bill Galston of the Brookings Institute.

Democrats saw the opportunity

The scandal surrounding Trump’s proposal allows the Democrats to hope that they will be able to take advantage of these statements during the election campaign. Democratic democracy leader Hillary Clinton and members of the Obama administration have called Trump’s proposal “disqualifying” or denying him the right to be president, and called on his Republican opponents not to recognize his campaign as legitimate.

Supporters of Clinton, this scandal is quite at hand. They argue that her experience as state secretary should increase her chances in a general election, where the main topic will be the security of the country. However, some analysts have serious doubts.

“Now we are beginning to understand how the problem of terrorism, and not just the management of foreign policy as a whole, becomes a problem in which Republicans can really blame the president and thereby put Hillary Clinton in a difficult situation, since she was also a member of the Obama administration”, says John Fortier from the Washington Bipartisan Policy Center.

Change or status quo?

In the end, the election results for 2016 of the year can be reduced to one simple question, says American University historian Allan Lichtman. “Voters need to decide only one thing: did the Democrats rule the country well enough to deserve another four years at the White House? Or did they rule so badly that voters want change? ”

This is a traditional point of view. However, in a year of unexpected turns, among which Donald Trump's elevation, many experts are in no hurry to predict the future.

“To be honest, I have no idea, and anyone who says that he knows about this is not true,” says Republican Party strategy specialist Ford O'Connell, with whom many of those who carefully watch that going on the run-up to the primaries in Iowa.

Trump remains the central figure in the race for the White House and, apparently, outrageous statements and the scandals associated with them only go to his advantage. Statements that "rapists" come from Mexico to the United States, and doubts about whether Senator John McCain is a war hero, were outraged by scientists and strategists who then watched his rating grow.

Trump's main audience remains white voters who have no higher education, who fear that they will soon not be the America in which they grew up. “The American dream has died, but I will make it better and more powerful than ever. I'll do it, ”Trump said, speaking to his many supporters in Springfield, Illinois. This phrase becomes his calling card.

Previously, Forum wrote about trump harsh criticism for anti-Muslim statements. For example, the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, Rick Chrisman banned Donald Trump's entry after that.

Another Republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, called Donald Trump a troublemaker.

White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest считаетthat what Trump said about Muslims deprives him of the right to hold the presidency of the United States.