--- title: Election 2016: Donald Trump's Lead Holds in Iowa description: Donald Trump is still in the lead among Republicans in Iowa, according to a new survey from Quinnipiac University. canonical: https://time.com/4030758/trump-lead-holds-walker-iowa-2016-election/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-11T10:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:51.524Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump's Lead Holds in Iowa og:description: But he also tops the list of candidates voters say they won't ever vote for og:url: https://time.com/4030758/trump-lead-holds-walker-iowa-2016-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8bf21823d3f76939/6988632ecf40a81a26c3fa58/donald-trump9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Tea Party Rally donald trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump's Lead Holds in Iowa twitter:description: But he also tops the list of candidates voters say they won't ever vote for twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8bf21823d3f76939/6988632ecf40a81a26c3fa58/donald-trump9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump's Lead Holds in Iowa as Scott Walker's Slide Continues > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_ by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 11, 2015 10:00 AM UTC  Candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination Donald Trump waits to speak at a rally held by the Tea Party at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 9, 2015. Candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination Donald Trump waits to speak at a rally held by the Tea Party at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 9, 2015. Samuel Corum—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 11, 2015 10:00 AM UTC Donald Trump is still in the lead among Republicans in Iowa, with support for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other candidates with government experience having collapsed in the first-in-nation caucus state. A new survey from Quinnipiac University finds that more than 50 percent of Iowa Republicans back candidates who have never held elected office, with Trump leading the field with 27%, followed by former neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 21%. Sen. Ted Cruz leads the rest of the pack with 9%, with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 6%, and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Sen. Marco Rubio each taking 5%. Walker, who once led Republicans in Iowa and nationally, has seen his support drop to 10th place in the early state, with just three percent of Iowa Republicans backing his candidacy. But Walker is still viewed overwhelmingly positively by likely Iowa caucus-goers, with a 62 percent favorability, an indication that his support could rebound. Carson maintains a high favorability as well, and his support rises to 30 percent if Trump were to leave the race. Trump also tops the list of candidates voters say they won’t ever vote for, with one-quarter of those polled saying they would never back him, followed by 23% for Bush. The survey polled 1,038 likely Iowa GOP caucus participants from Aug. 27 to Sept. 8 with a margin of error of ±3 percentage points. ## Transcript Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting, I mean both inside and out. You take a look at her, she's a slob. She talks like a truck driver. So he could have been born in Kenya and gone over to the United States. And everybody wants to be a US citizen. And his grandparents put an ad in saying he was born in the United States. He didn't kill Bin Laden. He gets so much credit for that. Ok excuse me. He had the guts to make that decision. And the genius. Excuse me. Guts. First of all Vince, your grapefruits are no match for my Trump Towers. They're bringing drugs They're bringing crime, they're rapist, and some I assume are good people, and I love the Mexican people. I've had thousands of Mexicans working for me. I sell apartments for millions of dollars to people from Mexico. They love me, they love me. [ CROSSTALK ]. He's a war hero cuz he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you this. And I see your Senator. What a stiff? What a Stiff? Lindsay Graham. I'm not using the lobbyists, I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. 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