going on bd at poand the poll n let s me play for you what ted cruz said yesterday. donald may well be right that this is turning more and more into a two-man race between donald trump and me. and i think if that s the case, the decision will be made by the voters in terms of who has the experience, the record, who has been a consistent conservative, standing for the constitution, standing for our freedom, standing with the american people. so if this is a two-man race and ted cruz likes to think that it is, why aren t these two trump and cruz going at each other more? well, i m not as convinced that it is down to a two-man race. i think we still have many more lives in this battle. but i do think what you just heard there is ted cruz who has done the consistent conservative message throughout the entirety of his campaign i think is starting to prepare a contrast
a 20% jump suggesting republican voters are getting far more comfortable with him. ted cruz in first, marco rubio in second. so let s take a look at some of the issues voters care about. trump running strong there, well over half of republican voters say trump is best at handling the economy and illegal immigration. and 47% say he would be best at handling isis. and finally, republican voters more optimistic about their chances in 2016 with trump in the picture. that number has jumped since august by 8 percentage points. meanwhile there is more rhetoric on the campaign trail this morning after trump s latest blast against hillary clinton, talking about trump in an interview with the des moines register, though, she refused to address his comments directly. listen. i really deplore the tone of his campaign and the
taking some of carson s bacon, everybody else has stayed static or even dropped. what does this mean for you and people in your party? because there is this what seems increasingly like a fantasy that somehow there is going to be a sea change and trump will no longer be as big a deal because of the votes. now what? to me the big number, it s not that trump is up by so much, although he is up by so much, but it s also if you add up his votes with ted cruz s votes, with ben carson s numbers, you re at like a supermajority of the republican base right now nationally. and that s a really, really big deal because if you were holding out hope that voters will come to their senses, they re flirting with donald trump but they will marry marco rubio let s say, those numbers make it really hard to sort of come to that conclusion. and again, if you add up trump and ben carson and ted cruz, you have a combined three years of
new cnn polling shows trump at 39% nationwide, that is more than the next three candidates combined. many trump supporters say they feel abandoned by politics as usual and they like trump s message of bring back the country. let s bring in david frum, now senior editor at the atlantic and he s written a new article called the great republican revolt in which he offers solutions to fix the party. david, nice to see you this morning. good morning. so this is a provocative piece where you re speaking about the republican revolt. let me read a passage. you say the most pessimistic people in america are the people we use order call middle americans, middle class, and middle aged. not rich and not poor. people who are irked when asked to press one for english and who wonder how white male became an accusation rather than a description. so tell me what your evidence is for seeing this new demographic. well, there is a lot of survey evidence backing up those
the field combined. we have democrat polling, as well. hillary clinton is leading there very highly. but she s also making it more and more about trump. she is talking about his language. trump surprisingly standing his ground. joe johns has more this morning. what is the state of play, my friend? good morning. the new cnn orc poll very much about donald trump s huge lead as the choice of republicans for the presidential nomination. now, if you look at the numbers, we have trump at 39%, then if you look at the next three candidates, ted cruz firmly in second at 18%, ben carson and marco rubio both at 10%. and there is real consistency here at the top for trump over the last seven months. his largest margin. if you look at the favorability ratings, trump is in third place, but even there, he s seen