Three out of five likely Republican voters expect Donald Trump will be the GOP presidential nominee, according to a poll released Friday
In the first installment of Rasmussen’s “Trump Change,” a weekly report on fluctuations in support for the real estate magnate’s candidacy, they found that 57 percent of GOP primary voters believe Trump will be their party’s standard-bearer in 2016.
Following Trump’s presidential announcement in mid-June, only 27 percent of saw him as the likely nominee.
Approximately one out of every five likely primary voters indicated they believe Trump is “very likely” to be the GOP’s pick for president, according to the same poll.
Just 15 percent of GOP voters think it is not at all likely Trump will be the nominee, down from 29 percent two months ago. Forty-two percent still think it is more likely it will be a candidate other than Trump.
Due to the progress the New York businessman has made in recent national polls, Rasmussen announced that it will now be tracking his numbers on a weekly basis.
The polling firm stated in its report, “Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has captured the public’s attention for better or worse, and his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, once seen as a pipe dream, is now a topic of serious discussion.”
Trump is expected to draw a crowd of 30,000 in Mobile, Ala. Friday night.
