Bush & Trump?

by JASmius



Somebody shoot me:

GOP 2016 presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump are rising in national polls among GOP primary voters, a new CNN/ORC poll shows.

While Bush holds 19% of the vote among Republican voters, Trump holds 12%, making them the only Republican presidential candidates to have a double-digit showing in the poll, Business Insider reports.

According to the CNN poll, the top five Republican candidate's are:

Jeb Bush: 19%, up from 13% in May
Donald Trump: 12%, up from 3% before his announcement
Mike Huckabee: 8%
Dr. Ben Carson: 7%
Senator Rand Paul: 7%

"The findings suggest Bush is making progress toward being seen as the front-runner in a field that has long lacked a clear leader," said CNN's polling director, Jennifer Agiesta, according to Business Insider.

The findings suggest that Bush and Trump have the most name recognition, which is the only thing a "national poll" for a nominating contest that is State by State only can possibly indicate at this early point in the process.  It also suggests that CNN is conducting the usual media psy-ops campaign to impose the Republican of their choice upon the GOP grassroots as its presidential nominee.  They're using Trump to preempt all of Bush III's conservative challengers at the same time that they're vilifying Trump personally - in essence, The Donald is their designated "conservative," that they plan to spend the next nine months parodying while Jeb cruises on to Cleveland a year from now and his crushing defeat next November.

That's the plan, anyway.

Meanwhile, let's hear from the GOP frontrunner in Iowa and New Hampshire, which will do a lot more to determine the eventual Republican standard-bearer than any CNN poll.