Donald Trump’s ahead in another poll and no wonder, two-thirds of Republicans say they feel ‘betrayed’ by their own party leaders

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Republican voters want a shake up in Washington, and they think Donald Trump could be the man for the job
There's still room for other candidates to pull ahead, though - 29 percent of Republicans say they 'would definitely not support' Trump
Fiorina ate Trump's dinner at the debate - twice as many voters picked her as the winner of the prime-time brawl
But giddiness over her fight night performance didn't crystallize into as big a boost for her candidacy

By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:46 EST, 24 September 2015 | Updated: 16:06 EST, 24 September 2015

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Republican voters want a shake up in Washington, and they think Donald Trump could be the man for the job.

A quarter of Republicans in Quinnipiac's latest survey, out this morning, wanted to send Trump to the White House. A Fox News poll put the billionaire at 26 percent, and a Bloomberg questionnaire had him at 21.

The Fox poll also found that 51 percent of Republicans feel 'betrayed' by their party leaders.

Two-thirds said they are angry because they feel Republicans, who have a slim majority in the Senate and a slightly higher head count in the House, aren't doing enough to block the Democratic president's agenda.

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Republican voters want a shake up in Washington, and they think Donald Trump could be the man for the job. He's seen here in New York on Tuesday

Asked why they think that is, 28 percent said they believe their party's representatives don't really want to defy President Barack Obama, and 13 percent 'they aren't smart enough' to get the job done.

A plurality, 38 percent, said party infighting was the problem, and that members of Congress would rather battle each other than their political opponents on the other side of the aisle.

The unrest in the party has been a boon for the candidacies of Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina.

'At some level, it is a risk to elect a person with no experience in government,' Bloomberg's pollster, J. Ann Selzer of Selzer & Co., said. 'Republicans, especially, seem ready to take that risk.'

The leading Republican candidates have ties to Washington - Trump's toyed with the idea of running for president before and had donated large sums to politicians of both parties, Carson and Fiorina live 45 minutes outside of the Capitol, and Fiorina chairs a conservative organization that is headquartered in the city - but they're seen as 'outsiders' in the presidential race because they've never held elected office.

They round out the top three in the Quinnipiac poll, though Fiorina is tied for third with Marco Rubio in the Fox News survey at 9 percent, and she came in fourth place at 11 percent, behind Jeb Bush, in the Bloomberg's sample of Republican voters.

The voters Quinnipiac talked to gave Fiorina third place, 12 percent with no string attached.

Carson had roughly the same amount of support in all three surveys, 17 percent for Quinnipiac, 18 percent for Fox and 16 percent for Bloomberg.

Half, 49 percent, of Republican voters that Fox's pollsters spoke to think Trump's 'too mean and blunt to be president' compared to the 44 percent who said 'he tells it like it is, and we need that now in a president.'

Along the same lines, 29 percent of respondents to Quinnipiac's survey say they 'would definitely not support' Trump for the GOP nomination.

'When the number of Republicans who ‘would definitely not support you’ is greater than the number who support you, where does that leave you? Welcome to Trump World...' Quinnipiac's Tim Malloy said in a statement released along with the institute's survey today.

Voters may still be trying to figure Carly Fiorina out. She has a high favorability rating, 67 percent of Republicans like her, and eight percent don't - but 25 percent said they don't know enough about her to say one way or the other

Fiorina ate Trump's dinner at the debate - twice as many voters picked her as the winner of the prime-time brawl in Fox' poll - but giddiness over her fight night performance didn't crystallize into support, for many respondents, for her candidacy

Without Trump in the race, Ben Carson, pictured here, today, on Capitol Hill, awaiting the Pope's speech to Congress, takes his spot in first at 24 percent. Fiorina would still be in third at 11 percent, tied again, but this time with Ted Cruz. Florida Senator Marco Rubio would jump up to second

But Republicans are struggling to unite behind a challenger to the former Apprentice Star and billionaire.

Voters may still be trying to figure Fiorina out. She has a high favorability rating, 67 percent of Republicans like her, and eight percent don't, but 25 percent said they don't know enough about her to say one way or the other.

If she performs well in the next national forum, she could see her stock go up - but as the poll data on Ben Carson shows, debates aren't everything.

Just six percent of voters believe the mild-mannered former neurosurgeon won last week's debate, but he's in second place in the race, still.

And he'd be in first if Trump were to drop out.

Without Trump in the race, Carson takes his spot in first at 24 percent. Rubio would bump up to 12 percent, and Fiorina would still be in third at 11 percent, tied again, but this time with Ted Cruz.

Voters don't think that's a likely scenario though. A sum total of 48 percent think Trump or Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will be the next president.

After that, all bets drop to the single digits. Bernie Sanders has a 5 percent chance, voters of all political persuasions said, and Joe Biden and Jeb Bush had a four percent chance each.

Biden's given no indication that he'll jump in the race, and has repeatedly said his emotionally battered family, still grieving over the death of Beau Biden, may not be able to handle the strain that comes from a campaign.

Democrats just can't get enough of the vice president, though - 18 percent now want him to run for president, up from 10 percent in August, while Clinton dropped by five, down to 44 percent.

Sanders' momentum, meanwhile, seems to have stalled. He's still at 30 percent, same as last month.