Poll surprise finds Trump No. 2 among Republicans
Donald Trump, the man whom no pundit took seriously as a presidential candidate, is sitting comfortably in second place, on the shoulder of the leader, in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows. Trump is tied at 17 percent with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and just behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 21 percent among Republican primary voters, according to the poll published Thursday. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points for the full sample. The rise of Trump, a television personality, wealthy businessman, developer and owner of beauty pageants, is a testament to the power of media publicity and his pugnacious personality as well as to the weakness of the Republican field of at least a dozen possible presidential aspirants.