Trump Drops 12 Percent in Polls, Nearly Two Points in Odds
The first real bad news for Republican candidate Donald Trump arrived Friday evening and it was a powerful blow to be sure.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed the real estate mogul had dropped 12 points in under a week. It is the biggest decline Trump has witnessed since rising to the top back in July.
Meanwhile, his odds had gone from 2/1 to +350, actually falling a half point behind fellow GOP candidate Senator Ted Cruz at Sportsbook.
Trump was the favorite of 31 percent of Republicans in a rolling poll in the five days ended on Nov. 27. That was down from a peak of 43 percent registered on Nov. 22.
The drop comes following a series of terrorist attacks in Paris whereby Trump later said he would support a special database for Muslims living in the United States, which his critics have likened to the mandatory registration of Jews in Nazi Germany.
Trump followed this up with a recounting of watching video footage “thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the attacks on 9-11”. Such footage is yet to surface.
Ben Carson was still behind Trump at 15 percent. Following Carson, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are tied for third place, with more than 8 percent each.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
