Donald Trump is on a roll, according to the latest Monmouth University poll. The poll, conducted from Dec. 10 to Dec. 13, puts Trump at 41 percent among Republican and Republican-leaning voters. Ted Cruz follows with 14 percent, Marco Rubio at 10 percent and Ben Carson with 9 percent. All other GOP candidates polled below 5 percent, reports The Washington Post.
"Trump is tapping into the phenomenon. The more he says things that make the Republican leaders cringe, the more he attracts people to his side," said Patrick Murray, who leads the Monmouth poll, according to abc News.
"It has become abundantly clear that Trump is giving his supporters exactly what they want, even if what he says causes the GOP leadership and many Republican voters to cringe," Murray added, reports USA Today.
The demographics behind Trump's lead are interesting. While more than half of Republican voters with only a high school education back Trump in the new survey, only three in 10 college graduates do the same, which leads to the deduction that Trump's rhetoric has found no takers among the educated. And when college-educated Republican women were questioned, they rejected Trump outright.
According to the poll, two-thirds of Republican voters would be "enthusiastic" or "satisfied" if Trump became the nominee. Less than three in 10 would be "dissatisfied" or "upset."
The Monmouth University numbers were matched with similar trends from the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released over the weekend.
