Today, reports The Hill, "Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans."
In Trump's own words: "The Tea Party has tremendous power. It’s Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody."
At the end of 2014 (last data available), Gallup showed national support of the Tea Party movement at 19 percent. A CBS News poll had it 15 percent, in May of that year.
You know … Everybody!