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Subscribe to RSS"You're fired" isn't a message Republican primary voters and Tea Party supporters are telling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, at least not yet.
According to the latest national NBC/WSJ poll, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the hypothetical 2012 GOP pack with support from 21 percent of Republican primary voters -- followed by Trump and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 17 percent each, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 11 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 10 percent.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is at 6 percent, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann gets 5 percent, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum receives 3 percent and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour gets 1 percent.
Strikingly, Trump -- who has received a considerable amount of attention for incorrectly stating that President Obama wasn't born in the U.S. -- finishes first among Tea Party supporters (at 20 percent), followed by Romney (17 percent), Huckabee (14 percent), Palin (12 percent) and Gingrich (9 percent). (Trump hosts the "The Apprentice" on NBC. Msnbc.com is a joint venture between NBC-Universal and Microsoft.)
When the field is whittled down to five Republicans -- Bachmann, Barbour, Gingrich, Pawlenty and Romney -- Romney leads with 40 percent, Gingrich comes in second with 20 percent and Pawlenty is third with 12 percent.
The full NBC/WSJ poll can be seen here.
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to roseone - If Obama wants to demonstrate that he is like us, then show us the birth certificate ! Many birth certificates ask for the religion of the parents and newborn. Does Barack Hussein Obama's certificate say "Muslim" ?? Maybe that is what he is trying to hide. I want the FBI to investigate this ??? American President - but Trump has his own people who, I'm sure, can do it just as well. Donald Trump for President !!!
In considered the birther movement and the inertia it has, I just can not fathom the depths of American stupidity.
get a clue if his name was john smith and not Barack Obama you ding dongs would find something else to abase the president about. it took 8 years to screw up the economy and it will take more than 18 months to fix it, especially when there are so many political obstacles in the way.
And as for Trump for president, well I guess a smarmy billionaire so bored with his own life that he enters reality TV would fit right in with a journalism grad that took 4 community colleges to complete, an unfinished mayoral term left with very low approval ratings, and a governorship left in much the same way. Actually, ya know what? I think a Trump?palin ticket is exactly how we end up with 4 more years of Obama! Having said that, I say "Go for it Donald!". It'd make me, at least, very very happy.
What a terrible poll. What about Ron Paul or Gary Johnson? If you want to get an accurate measure of the preferred candidates of 'tea partiers', give them some decent choices! Why are Donald Trump and Michelle Bachman now considered more serious contenders than Ron Paul who has been a congressman for many years, made a run for the primary in 2008, and has made every indication of being interested in running in 2012, not to mention being the clear favorite of 'tea party'/libertarian/serious fiscally conservative voters? Oh yeah, because NBC wants to force republicans to pick from a list of fools so they can reinforce their agenda of portraying conservatives as a bunch of idiots.