God bless Donald Trump. Every passing day, he brings more and more disrepute on the GOP presidential field and the entire Republican Party. But it's also increasingly hard for Republicans to disavow him since he's now started leaping to the top of primary polls. The latest comes from Public Policy Polling,
which just surveyed Michigan, and boy are the results fun:
Scott Walker: 15
Jeb Bush: 14
Ben Carson: 14
Donald Trump: 14
Marco Rubio: 9
Mike Huckabee: 8
Chris Christie: 5
Ted Cruz: 5
Rand Paul: 4
Carly Fiorina: 3
John Kasich: 3
Rick Santorum: 2
Lindsey Graham: 1
Rick Perry: 1
Bobby Jindal: 0
George Pataki: 0
Someone else: 2
There's Trump—right behind Scott Walker and tied with Jeb! Bush and Ben Carson (whom we love second-most but not nearly as much as we love The Donald). Conventional wisdom says that Trump will bail on the race come October, the absolute drop-dead date for him to file mandatory financial disclosure forms that every candidate for federal office must fill out. But seeing as he's
detonating his own TV career while he's still in the building, if he's in first place come Halloween, would he really quit the presidential race?
Friends, let us pray that he does not. You will not be surprised to learn that among the GOP contenders, Trump performs the worst against Hillary Clinton in this same poll, losing by a 49-39 margin. That ties him for dead last with none other than Ted Cruz, who, funny enough, was just seen defending his rival—"I like Donald Trump. I think he's terrific"—after he (Trump) had announced that Mexican immigrants are a bunch of rapists.
Indeed, Republicans have been afraid to hit The Donald for his offensive remarks, which he only broadened in a new interview. ("I'm not just saying Mexicans, I'm talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they're coming into this country.") Could it be because he actually speaks for his fellow party members? Well, he certainly seems to be speaking for many of its voters, and we have the polling data to prove it.