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-51%
Donald Trump’s disapproval rating among Hispanic voters, according to Gallup. His closest rivals for Hispanic disapproval are Rick Perry and Ted Cruz, at -7 percent, contrasted with Jeb Bush’s +11 percent approval rating.
Trump has certainly crafted an appeal to voters who like impractical ideas. But his true threat lies in the fact that Trump himself is crazy — not just ideologically, though he is certainly that as well, but in the sense that he lacks any rational connection between his actions and his goals, to the extent that his goals are discernible at all. That is also his downfall.
Our committee believes that Mr. Christie has already performed the service of stopping his campaign in spirit.
— Tom Bjorklund, treasurer of the Stop Chris Christie PAC, which is shutting down because it says Christie is doing a better job at stopping his own campaign.
I’ll beat his brains out.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by CNN, saying Donald Trump would be “a complete idiot” to run in South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary. But a new poll shows Trump leading Graham in his home state, 30% to 4%.
35%
Donald Trump’s lead over the Republican presidential field, followed by John Kasich at 11%, Carly Fiorina at 10%, Jeb Bush at 7%, Scott Walker at 7%, Ben Carson at 6%, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz all at 4%, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey in New Hampshire.
I praise the fact that he’s come out on the immigration issue. I’m beginning to get the idea that he’s a good salesman. That he’s an entrepreneur and he has a good sense of what people want to hear what they want to buy.
— Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, praising Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling him “the best of the lot” who has said “some really great things recently,” TPM reports.
54%
Hillary Clinton’s dominating lead over the Democratic field, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at 20%, Vice President Joe Biden at 11% and Martin O’Malley at 4%, according to a new Suffolk University poll in Iowa.
It may be unavoidable, a necessary error to avert the even-worse calamity of having his fundraisers go on strike. Yet attack-Trump remains an error all the same for Jeb Bush—and for two big reasons. … First, Trump certainly hurts Bush, but he hurts other candidates more. Bush’s most immediate problem is not that the base doesn’t trust him—it didn’t trust John McCain either, yet he nevertheless won the nomination—but that his donors enjoy too many plausible alternative choices… The second reason Bush shouldn’t fight Trump: Even if Bush wins, he’ll lose… Trump is not playing by the usual rules. Show Trump a line, and he’ll cross it. He has crossed it. And Jeb Bush is a candidate who needs lines respected almost more than any other.
— David Frum, writing in the Atlantic.
61% to 28%
John Kasich’s standing rises to an all-time high among voters as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, a new Quinnipiac poll in Ohio finds. Voter approval of Kasich’s job performance is even stronger numbers among Republicans at 84% to 10%.
19%
The odds of Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination — up from 1% in late July on Pivit, an interactive prediction marketplace that combines public opinion, news and data to predict the live odds of election outcomes, CNN reports.
