Are Apprentice fans Donald Trump's most reliable voters?

Apprentice fans are Trumps most reliable voters?
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Donald Trump clobbers Hillary Clinton in a national match-up — among regular viewers of The Apprentice, that is. According to new poll results, loyal Apprentice fans from Trump's hosting years prefer him to Clinton by a margin of 28 points, while those who never really watched the show favor Clinton by 15 points.

"While there is nothing counter-intuitive about these findings, they are the first mathematical measure of the extent to which Trump has been able to cash-in on his celebrity," the poll notes.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.