Media Thumps Trump, Here’s How That’s Affected the Polls
By Niall Stanage. Rumors of Donald Trump’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
Ever since rival Carly Fiorina was widely perceived to have bested Trump at the second GOP debate in California on Sept. 16, media outlets have been lining up to suggest that the front-runner is waning.
Trump has hit back with characteristic vigor. But he has a point, independent observers say . . .
Much of the negative media attention has been built around a single poll in the immediate aftermath of the debate, by CNN/ORC.
A survey from Fox News released earlier this week showed the businessman at 26 percent support nationally, an increase of 1 point since Fox’s last survey in mid-August. A Bloomberg poll gave him 21 percent — good enough for a 5-point lead over the field and an unchanged rating since the last poll from the financial news outlet at the beginning of August. (Read more from “Media Thumps Trump, Here’s How That’s Effected the Polls” HERE)
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Rubio Ramping up Campaign With More Time in Early States
By Catherine Lucy and Kathleen Ronayne. After a summer largely spent raising money for his Republican campaign for president, Marco Rubio says he’s about to start spending a whole lot more time in Iowa and the other early voting states.
“There were obviously other things we needed to do,” the Florida senator said this past week in an interview with The Associated Press. “We need the resources to be able to have staff here and be on the air and do the things a campaign requires. But, we were just here a few days ago. We’re going to be back a lot more.”
Following a return to Iowa next week he’ll go to the other three states — New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — that are voting in the initial wave of presidential caucuses and primaries, his campaign advisers said.
Rubio recently hired a state director in Iowa, a position other campaigns have had in place for months, and has booked millions in television ads that will start airing in November.
For Republican activists and party faithful used to fawning attention, it’s about time. (Read more from this story HERE)
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