Ted Cruz seized the lead in an Iowa GOP presidential poll for the first time Monday – but a second poll released a few hours afterward said Donald Trump remained way ahead in the early-voting state.
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Those results were notably different than another poll released earlier on Monday by Monmouth University. Ted Cruz of Texas taking the lead. The Monmouth survey primarily relied on registered voters in Iowa with a history of participating in primary elections at the state level, according to CNN. Women backed Rubio (23 percent) and Cruz (19 percent), followed by Carson and Trump at 15 percent and 14 percent. He was at 13 percent in the Monmouth tally and 16 percent by CNN’s reckoning.
Sanders has continued to make gains in terms of favorability, with 83% of likely Democratic primary voters saying they have a positive impression of the Vermont senator, up from 78% in September and above the 68% with a positive view of Clinton and 26% who say they have a favorable take on O’Malley. The margin of error for Republican voters was 5.2 percentage points. Republican voters appear divided on who else would do a good job on ISIS, with five other candidates all bunched together around second place: 11% name Bush, 9% Christie, and 7% each Cruz, South Carolina Sen. The poll was conducted in part before Trump announced the proposal. They just disagree on who is leading. He will be strong in SC and is best positioned to be the overall delegate leader after the March 1 ‘SEC primary.’ ” Several major Southern states vote March 1, including Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and Cruz’s home state of Texas.
The difference in the results in the two polls may be attributable to who was sampled.
“There is no doubt that Donald Trump would be a phenomenal negotiator with China, and, if you look at TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership), I have come out against TPP, it is an incredibly long and complicated mess of a bill”, Cruz said.
A recent Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll indicated that about a third of the New Hampshire votes on February 9 will be cast by independents, who, under Granite State law, may vote in either primary. It wouldn’t surprise me if we see Trump continue his downward spiral and be in third place pretty quickly.
Some conservatives criticized Lynch for her comments to a Muslim civil rights group, where she lamented “the ability of people to issue hateful speech of all types from the anonymity of a screen”. Republican leaders from House Speaker Paul Ryan to former Vice President Dick Cheney have since condemned Trump’s remarks and said they represent neither Republican nor conservative principles.
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While Marshall County Treasurer doesn’t sound like the title of a “big get” when it comes to presidential campaign endorsements, in Iowa, not everything is as it seems.
