If Cruz is to prevail, he must pass Trump as well as other Republican opponents – including another first term senator, Marco Rubio of Florida, who has been the subject of Cruz attacks. We are potentially seeing what could be our final three GOP candidates: “Trump, Rubio and Cruz”.
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Trump polled at 27 percent, followed by a rising Florida Sen.
From the Texas Tribune: Ted Cruz on Monday offered a spirited defense of Republicans on women’s health issues, accusing Democrats of creating a phony “war on women” based on claims that his party wants to restrict access to birth control. He was at 5 percent in a Q poll in late July, 7 percent in a September poll and 16 now.
The new poll shows mostly steady support for Trump, who was at 24 percent support in Quinnipiac’s November poll and at 28 percent in the August poll. But two candidates in particular who usually stand out as the obvious alternatives, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, have remained unusually cordial toward each other despite all the mud slinging.
“Trump is no mere mortal, he is a unique political animal”, said Ford O’Connell, Republican strategist and former adviser on the 2008 McCain-Palin presidential campaign.
She also leads Cruz 47-42, a month after Cruz led 46-43.
Clinton has extended her lead over Sanders, further solidifying her as the frontrunner in the race.
From November 23 – 30, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,453 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 2.6 percentage points.
While Tim Malloy said that the Republican Party establishment is anxious that Trump “could be the guy”, he goes on to say that both Clinton and Sanders are hoping that Trump, is “the guy”. Republicans are defending the lions share of the seats up in 2016, many of them in states President Barack Obama carried twice.
Among tea partyers, Cruz is tied with Donald Trump at 29 percent – well ahead of Carson at 17 percent and Rubio at 12. Trump’s numbers, meanwhile, are 59% to 35%.
A seven-page internal memo obtained and published Wednesday by the Washington Post laid out a plan in September to staffers at the National Senatorial Campaign Committee (NRSC) on how to deal with Trump if he wins the nomination next summer.
65 percent say they might change their minds while 32 percent say their minds are made up. Bush comes in second at 21 percent.
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Cruz also explained that Clinton’s position on abortion are so radical and unpopular that the only way she can make up the difference is to fuel the GOP-anti-contraception narrative and intimidate the GOP.
