The rest of the candidates have merely less than five percent of GOP voters’ support for the Republican nomination as president.
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USA Today offers valuable perspective on this: Yes, Cruz more than doubled his support among Iowa Republicans since October and now leads the field with 24%, according to a new Monmouth University Poll.
The poll also showed that Carson’s support from Iowa evangelicals dropped from a commanding 36 percent in October to a current level of 15 percent.
Monmouth University just put out a poll showing that Ted Cruz has passed Donald Trump and is now the GOP frontrunner in the Hawkeye State.
Mr. Cruz recently won the endorsement of Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who is popular among conservative activists.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came in second place at 17 percent support, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio is also Cruz’s and Carson’s rivals in the double-digit rating with 12 percent. Rand Paul of Kentucky, 4 percent.
The director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, Patrick Murray, said the two surveys used different methods for determining who was likely to show up at the Republican caucuses next February.
That said, there is an nearly even divide among those who have an unfavorable opinion of both Trump and Clinton: 45% say they dislike Clinton more; 42% dislike Trump more. “While other candidates in this race have gone out of their way to throw rocks at him, to insult him, I have consistently declined to do so and I have no intention of changing that now”. Carson’s stock has since fallen by 19 percentage points while Cruz has gained by 14 percentage points, reports The New York Times. Only 18 percent said they would reconsider their support.
“In the media, there has been no shortage of criticism for Donald Trump, and I do not believe the world needs my voice added to that chorus of critics”, Cruz said at a press conference.
Monmouth also had a smaller sample size – 425 compared to 552 with the CNN poll.
The surveys of 363 likely Democratic voters and 357 likely Republican voters have 5 percent margins of error.
Despite his success, Trump is the candidate for whom New Hampshire Republicans are most likely not to vote, with 26 percent saying they definitely would not support the candidate under any circumstance.
As it now stands, Trump has achieved a huge lead over other hopefuls to stand as the Republican party’s standard bearer.
Polls indicate that Rubio – at least for now – possesses another advantage.
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When asked if he’s concerned about the rhetoric some Republicans are using against Muslim Americans, Cruz still refused to go after the man working to counteract his Iowa momentum.
