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Washington (CNN)Carly Fiorina shot into second place in the Republican presidential field on the heels of another strong debate performance, and Donald Trump has lost some support, a new national CNN/ORC poll shows.
The survey, conducted in the three days after 23 million people tuned in to Wednesday night's GOP debate on CNN, shows that Trump is still the party's front-runner with 24% support. That, though, is an 8 percentage point decrease from earlier in the month when a similar poll had him at 32%.
Fiorina ranks second with 15% support -- up from 3% in early September. She's just ahead of Ben Carson's 14%, though Carson's support has also declined from 19% in the previous poll.
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originally posted by: Moresby
I would agree with the trackers.
Whatever the polls say, there is zero chance of Trump, Carson or Fiorina getting the Republican nomination. However, Jeb has a good chance of getting it.
Earlier this year, Fiorina called recreational and medical marijuana legalization "a very bad idea" in part because the issue "lands very personally" with her due to her daughter's death.
At the debate on Wednesday night, Fiorina argued that "we do need criminal-justice reform" to cure "the highest incarceration rates in the world" that exist because "two-thirds of the people in our prisons are there for nonviolent offenses, mostly drug related."
"It's clearly not working," she said of mass incarceration over drug offenses.
During the period known as the “invisible primary,” these “party elites” seek to coalesce around the candidates they find most acceptable as their party’s nominee. Over the past few decades, when these elites have reached a consensus on the best candidate, rank-and-file voters have usually followed.
originally posted by: Profusion
originally posted by: Moresby
I would agree with the trackers.
Whatever the polls say, there is zero chance of Trump, Carson or Fiorina getting the Republican nomination. However, Jeb has a good chance of getting it.
What are you basing that on? Vote rigging?
My understanding is that the argument for Bush still being the favorite is that people who support establishment candidates that drop out of the race will subsequently choose to support Bush. However, that's totally theoretical. Trying to predict such a thing is just a shot in the dark IMHO.
You're really talking about a massive conspiracy to claim, "there is zero chance of Trump, Carson or Fiorina getting the Republican nomination." Can you justify that statement with evidence?