Some people are going to be very happy by this CBS-New York Times poll, others will hate it. Ben Carson has taken the lead nationally for the first time over Donald Trump. The anti-Trump GOP-e must be smiling somewhat, though I don’t think they want Carson winning instead of their new golden boy Rubio. The pro-Trump voters will hate this because it might be the first sign of Trump finally dropping in the polls that the GOP-e egghead have been claiming will happen since July. In a new national poll from CBS-New York Times, Ben Carson takes a four point lead nationally on Trump. This is the first poll to show Trump trailing nationally since before he made his amnesty comments.
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Ben Carson has pulled ahead of Donald Trump and is now at the top of the field in the race for the Republican nomination, according to the latest national CBS News/New York Times poll.
Twenty-six percent of Republican primary voters now back Carson while 22 percent are backing Trump, the poll found.
Support for Carson has quadrupled since August, according to the poll. But while more than half of Trump voters say their minds are made up about their support, 79 percent of Carson’s voters say they could change their minds.
“The thing with these polls is they’re all so different, they’re coming from all over the lot where one guy is up here and somebody else is up there or you see swings of 10 and 12 points, immediately even the same say,” Trump said Tuesday on MSNBC in response to Carson’s surge in Iowa polls. “So right now, it’s not very scientific. I think it’s very hard when you have this many, but overall I am a believer in polls, I think they say something, at least they spot a trend.”
Marco Rubio is in third place at 8 percent followed by Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina, who are both at 7 percent. All other candidates are at 4 percent or lower.
You have to take this poll with a grain of salt. CBS and the New York times are well known for their far left liberal bias. They are also some of the top Trump bashers (if you don’t include the GOP-e). We’ll see if more national polls come out with Carson ahead of Trump.
This poll also has Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina ahead of Ted Cruz which hasn’t been shown by other polls. So this may be an outlier.