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AP-GfK Poll: Americans overwhelmingly view Trump negatively
By JULIE PACE and EMILY SWANSON

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries to overcome recent campaign setbacks.

Seven in 10 people, including close to half of Republican voters, have an unfavorable view of Trump, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It's an opinion shared by majorities of men and women; young and old; conservatives, moderates and liberals; and whites, Hispanics and blacks — a devastatingly broad indictment of the billionaire businessman.

Even in the South, a region where Trump has won GOP primaries decisively, close to 70 percent view him unfavorably. And among whites without a college education, one of Trump's most loyal voting blocs, 55 percent have a negative opinion.

Trump still leads the Republican field in delegates and has built a loyal following with a steady share of the Republican primary electorate. But the breadth of his unpopularity raises significant questions about how he could stitch together enough support in the general election to win the White House.

It also underscores the trouble he may still face in the Republican race, which appears headed to a contested convention where party insiders would have their say about who will represent the GOP in the fall campaign.

"He's at risk of having the nomination denied to him because grass-roots party activists fear he's so widely disliked that he can't possibly win," said Ari Fleischer, a former adviser to President George W. Bush.

Beyond their generally negative perception of Trump, large majorities also said they would not describe him as civil, compassionate or likable. On nearly all of these measures, Trump fared worse than his remaining Democratic or Republican rivals.

Not that voters have all that much love for those rivals. But their negative perceptions don't match the depth of the distaste for Trump. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is seeking to catch Trump in the Republican delegate count, is viewed unfavorably by 59 percent, while 55 percent have negative views of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Another problem for Trump is that his public perception seems to be getting worse. The number of Americans who view him unfavorably has risen more than 10 percentage points since mid-February, a two-month stretch that has included some of his biggest primary victories but also an array of stumbles that suggested difficulties with his campaign organization and a lack of policy depth.

A survey conducted by Gallup in January found Trump's unfavorable rating, then at 60 percent in the their polling, was already at a record high level for any major party nominee in their organization's polling since the 1990's.

Candi Edie, a registered Republican from Arroyo Grande, California, is among those whose views on Trump have grown more negative.

"At first, I thought he was great. He was bringing out a lot of issues that weren't ever said, they were taboo," Edie said. Now the 64-year-old feels Trump's early comments masked the fact that he's "such a bigot."

"I don't know if he's lost it or what," she said. "He's not acting presidential."Trump's unpopularity could provide an opening for Cruz, though he is loathed by many of his Senate colleagues and other party leaders. After a big win Tuesday in Wisconsin, Cruz is angling to overtake Trump at the July GOP convention.

Clinton's campaign believes Trump's sky-high unfavorable ratings could offset some questions voters have about her own character, and perhaps even give her a chance to peel off some Republicans who can't stomach a vote for the real estate mogul.

Andrew Glaves, a "hard core" Republican from Bothell, Washington, said he might have to side with Clinton if Trump becomes the nominee, even though she's out of step with his views on gun rights, his top election issue.

"I'd be willing to take that as opposed to doing so much harm to the country's reputation," said Glaves, 29.

More than 60 percent of all registered voters and 31 percent of Republicans said they definitely would not vote for Trump in the general election.

One group that is still with him includes those who describe themselves as both Republicans and supporters of the tea party movement. Sixty-eight percent of them have a favorable view.

Pennsylvania Republican Robert Paradis plans to vote for Trump in his state's primary this month. The 76-year-old said that while Trump's uneven temperament makes him cringe "all the time," he's hopeful the front-runner's bluntness can shake up Washington.

"He's not a politician; he says it the way he feels it," Paradis said.
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The AP-GfK Poll of 1,076 adults was conducted online March 31-April 4, using a sample drawn from GfK's probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

Respondents were first selected randomly using telephone or mail survey methods and later interviewed online. People selected for KnowledgePanel who didn't otherwise have access to the Internet were provided access at no cost to them.

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-- (c) Associated Press 2016-04-08

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We despise the guy.

Just not as much as the mainstream party nimrods.

Sad statement, really. More and more often, the choices boil down to the lesser of a bunch of evils.

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"..."He's at risk of having the nomination denied to him because grass-roots party activists fear he's so widely disliked that he can't possibly win,"

IMHO they should fear even more strongly the consequences of this man at the helm and his policies etc., and fear him holding the keys to the weapons, and be concerned what damage he would do to valuable and critical relationships with many other countries.

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Yes - the Propaganda media commissions another poll to discredit Trump. Except the Millions who actually vote for him in the Primaries and the tens of thousands who show up in record breaking crowds at his rallies ... More people have been voting in the Republican primaries than in the Democrat primaries. There has been considerable turn out of Independents and even Democrats who VOTE for Trump... but whine whine whine ... 'everybody' dislikes him... All this gibberish was said about Reagan too in the early 80's but he won by a landslide...

Propaganda fools everyone except the voters.

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Especially women: 72%+. Also, Wall Street has predicted the general election correctly 87% of the time. There's a web site called predictit.org, perfectly legal to take penny "stocks" a share at a time. Currently you can buy Hillary stock for 64 cents and Trump at 16 cents.

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I am not crazy about him, but he is better then Hillary or Cruz.

What an appalling indictment of the state of US politics.

Definitely not good. But at least there's a choice. So many around the world don't have this option.

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I think that about hits the mark on the forum here.

You have the JDGruens, mopar71s,neversures, and then there are seven of us that agree Trump is a jerk as well as total disaster.

No, he is not better than Hilary or Cruz. At least they have some government experience and you guys that say that Trump's lack of government experience is a good thing, I'll ask you how many people in your lives have you hired for a position when they had no experience?

You hire the person who knows how to do the job.

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Yes - the Propaganda media commissions another poll to discredit Trump. Except the Millions who actually vote for him in the Primaries and the tens of thousands who show up in record breaking crowds at his rallies ... More people have been voting in the Republican primaries than in the Democrat primaries. There has been considerable turn out of Independents and even Democrats who VOTE for Trump... but whine whine whine ... 'everybody' dislikes him... All this gibberish was said about Reagan too in the early 80's but he won by a landslide...

Propaganda fools everyone except the voters.

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The "Propaganda media" again? Yeah, keep beating that drum. Except that it's pretty much every single poll that says Trump has the highest unfavorable ratings of any candidate....in history. But from the Trump supporters point of view, any media story that doesn't just adore and gush over Trump is propaganda. Maybe you should just stop reading all news about Trump.

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It is hardly a drum beat except the one the media has been beating for a year now telling of Trump's demise including this one that has been done before ... All proven Wrong as Trump marches along gathering delegates

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The democrats should be thinking about how to STOP KASICH.

Polls show Kasich CREAMING either democrat in the general.

Cruz OR Trump ... piece of cake.

Silly silly republicans, they've got a winner and they don't vote for him.

Oh well! cheesy.gif

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Kasich won't get there Jingthing, he's too moderate for the conservative right whingers who have been whinging for eight years about Obama. Some of them live on this forum !

They need to be as far right as possible, thus Cruz who advocates replacing Darwin's theories in school texts with Christianity, that goes over big with these types.

But yes, Trump is so universally disliked he has no chance in the GE, so Cruz it'll be.

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Cruz is extremely disliked as well.

Which is good for the democrats.

Kasich is NOT a moderate but he is very likable.

I'm just amused that the republicans have a huge winner in their final three and they're not grabbing at their only and GOOD chance.

It's hilarious!

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How can the majority hate him if he's winning the polls? Idiocracy.

You're getting bad information.

Yeah, Trump saw ONE positive national poll months ago and he still touts it as suggesting he will win the national.

He's Trump Toast and I think by now, he KNOWS it.

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How can the majority hate him if he's winning the polls? Idiocracy.

According to most polls, Clinton would trounce him in the election, and Sanders would beat him even more badly.

The only Republican candidate that has a chance against Clinton is Kasich, who seems to beat her fairly consistently.

But it seems he's not rabid enough to win the nomination.

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Cruz is worse than Trump. Trump is like a violent bout of explosive diarrhoea, while Cruz is more like a slowly growing malignant brain tumour. What a state for the Republicans. The tail is wagging the dog. While I'm a pretty liberal person I can respect the Republican party of the 80s and 90s (and earlier), even though I disagree with them about some things. But when your main guys are Trump and Cruz something has gone very wrong. I think a lot of reasonable Republicans must be doing some soul searching right now. The mainstream of the party allowed the wingnut fringe to grow, nurtured it even, while it was convenient for them, and now it's got too big for them to control. It's poetic almost.

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Trump is disliked so much he's Winning

No, he's losing actually, dude.

He's a big old bombastic LOSER.

He won't have the delegates to win on the first ballot and that means he won't be nominated.

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Trump is disliked so much he's Winning

No, he's losing actually, dude.

He's a big old bombastic LOSER.

He won't have the delegates to win on the first ballot and that means he won't be nominated.

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He won't nearly make it to 1237 and then it's GAME ON.

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