Leads pack with 25% of GOP primary voters’ support
(Washington Examiner) – After months of little separation, Scott Walker has pulled ahead of a crowded 2016 Republican presidential field.
With 25 percent of Republican primary voters’ support, the Wisconsin governor leads the pack, a new Public Policy Polling national survey has found. Ben Carson places second, with 18 percent, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 17 percent and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 10 percent.
No other potential candidate — including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul — garnered more than five percent.
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Walker’s momentum has considerably grown since the January poll, in which he stood at just 11 percent. A key to this gain is his growing appeal to the conservative side of the Republican Party. Among “very conservative” voters, he leads Carson 37 percent to 19 percent, followed by 12 percent for Bush and 11 percent for Huckabee.
Bush, whom 43 percent of “very conservative” voters view unfavorably, leads Walker among moderate voters, 34 percent to 12 percent — though unfortunately for Bush, two times more GOP primary voters identify as “very conservative” than as moderate.
Furthermore, a whopping 68 percent of “very conservative” voters view Walker favorably.
In second place, Carson’s rise in support can be attributed to grabbing Tea Party supporters of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Eighty percent of Tea Party voters view Carson favorably, compared to 70/3 for Cruz and 60/13 for Paul. Walker remains the leader in the Tea Party vote, however.
Interestingly enough, the elected official with a better favorability rating than any of the GOP’s potential presidential picks? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who garnered a 57 percent favorability rating. Huckabee came in second among the Republican voters with 56 percent, followed by Carson with 54 percent and Walker with 51 percent.
“There is no doubt — Scott Walker is the candidate with all the momentum in the Republican race for president right now,” Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, said in a statement Tuesday. “The big question is whether he will be able to sustain it in a way that most of the fleeting Republican front runners in 2012 couldn’t.”
The telephone and Internet poll of 316 Republican primary voters was done Feb. 20-22 with a margin of error of plus or minus five and a half percentage points.
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