At a private fundraiser in Manhattan, Cruz spoke to about 70 people about Trump and Ben Carson, two people who attended the event told The New York Times.
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Instead, CBS chose to devote all of its coverage (two and a half minutes) concerning its own poll to the results pertaining to the 2016 Republican field and how Donald Trump remains the frontrunner despite his calls to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
Cruz redirected the heat to the GOP establishment, trying to defuse tensions with Trump.
“You look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino, it’s given a seriousness to this race”, Cruz said.
Though Cruz also said he “like(s) and respect(s)” Trump and Carson, he questioned their fitness to lead the country.
“I don’t believe Donald is going to be the nominee, and I think, in time, the lion’s share of his supporters [will] end up with us”, Cruz said in October. “People are looking for who is prepared to be a commander in chief”.
Combined, Trump and Cruz are at 46% in the polls, according to Real Clear Politics, and their followers like them for similar reasons.
“I am leading by so much he must”, the Republican front-runner predicted. And 63% are “very” concerned about the threat of terrorism against Americans committed by people now living in the USA who are inspired by foreign extremists.
– A poll tracking website on Huffington Post shows that Hillary Clinton would more likely win a general election against Trump with the former receiving 47.5 percent of the vote to his 43.5 – still too close for comfort of course.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday found 38 percent of Republican primary voters support the idea, while 39 percent oppose, with a 4.4 percentage point margin of error. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Cruz stood by his closed-door framing of the race without directly repeating his critique of Trump. But let’s say February or March rolls around with Trump showing no signs of slowing.
“Trump leads across multiple categories of voters from a high of 35 percent among those who wish to create a database of Muslims in the U.S.to a low of 22 percent among Evangelical Christians, who will make up almost 60 percent of the S.C. GOP Presidential Primary electorate”, Huffmon. Cruz simply replied that he was “not going to comment on what I may or may not have said at a private fund-raiser”.
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Donald Trump remaining on top has the GOP nervous, but Ted Cruz is steadily rising.
