MSNBC: New PPP Poll Shows Trump Unscathed by Sat. Night GOP Debate

‘He’s almost going into Michael Moore territory in a Republican primary debate’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BRZEZINSKI: "By the way, he knows it in realtime. A new post-debate poll out of South Carolina shows Donald Trump unscathed by Saturday night’s debate. The survey taken on Sunday and Monday by public policy polling gives trump a 17 point lead. 35 percent over Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio who are tied at 18 percent."
SCARBOROUGH: "Willie, it looks like if anybody lost the debate, Ted Cruz who lost his firm grip on second place."
BRZEZINSKI: "Look at Jeb Bush."
SCARBOROUGH: "Who I thought would get the biggest bump out of the debate."
GEIST: "The Jeb Bush number is stunning. They thought, if he could survive New Hampshire, get to South Carolina with his money and the bush family’s respect down there, that he could do well. But he’s 30 points back of Donald Trump."
SCARBOROUGH: "He put in his best debate performance. What does anybody know. Mike Barnicle, he was strong. He was aggressive."
BARNICLE: "Joe, you just summed up the entire political year. What the hell does anybody know."
SCARBOROUGH: "But this really does, though, take it to a whole new level. Saturday night, the craziness of 2016 and the Republican party was melted down to a core. A red, lava-like, steamy core. And yet Donald Trump has gone up and the so-called grown-ups in the room have collapsed."
BARNICLE: "He is playing in another league. He is playing a different game than the rest of them are."
GEIST: "Watching that debate, though, I am thinking — fighting my instinct that nothing hurts Donald Trump. We’ve learned that."
BRZESSI thought it was a terrible debate."
GEIST: "At that point I said, wow, he’s almost going into Michael Moore territory in a Republican primary debate. I said, this has to hurt him a little bit. It hasn’t at least according to these new polls."

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