Vox is Right

As conservative operatives in the media try to contain Trump, his popularity only rises.

Failing Ever Higher"It's rather amusing how the conservative media keeps explaining how Donald Trump lost the debate, or at least didn't win it, or has hit his ceiling again, while Trump's poll numbers continue to climb higher.

A Morning Consult poll, released Friday, surveyed 504 registered voters who watched Wednesday’s Republican primary debate and has only good news for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina. While the poll’s sample size is small (with a 4.4% margin of error), the poll’s trend is worth noting.

In this same poll, prior to Wednesday night’s debate, Trump sat at 33% support. Dr. Ben Carson sat in second place with 17% support. Today Trump enjoys 36% support. Carson is still in second place but with just 12% support.

Trump’s lead increased from +16 points to +24%. That’s an +8% jump.

[actually it's a 50% jump: Stan]

With their shared status as outsiders, it appears as though Carson’s support went to Fiorina. Prior to the debate the former-Hewlett Packard CEO had just 3% support. She now sits in third place with 10%, only -2 points behind second place Carson.

Overall, the Republican Establishment is the Big Loser here. Non-politicians Trump, Carson and Fiorina command 58% of the vote, and that piece of the pie is only growing larger.

Republicans hate the Republican Establishment almost as much as they hate Democrats these days. After multiple repetitions of "This is the Mostest Importantets Election EVER, so you must vote for the corrupt moderate the bankers have chosen to fund" got them precisely nowhere, an increasing number of Republicans realize that literally anything is better than the conservative media-approved candidates.

Both Fiorina and Carson are no-hope non-candidates. The fact that both of them have more appeal than the Walker, Rubio, Cruz, Christie, Bush III et al suffices to demonstrate how little faith the grassroots has in the Establishment.

It's pretty simple. Both American and European politics are about IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION, and IMMIGRATION. If you don't support immediately repatriating ALL illegal immigrants as a STARTING POINT, you're just not an electable candidate anymore."