Ben Carson, once a hit with evangelical voters in the Hawkeye State, dropped to third place with 13%. Asked if she thought Trump would make a good president, she said “I don’t think that he can do any worse than what we have”.
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Trump said he likes Cruz but wondered how he wins Iowa with positions that are “anti-Iowa” on ethanol, noting “he’s got to be with oil” as a Texas senator.
“I always expected that Cruz would do well in Iowa”. Ted Cruz is beating Trump by a total of 10 percent, seven weeks before the caucuses.
On Friday night, Donald Trump took time out of throwing punches at his opponents to throw a punch at an old foe: the Des Moines Register.
“He’s very conservative and I agree with most of his views on the financial situation of our country and abortion and gay marriage”, said Sarah Chappell, 34, a stay-at-home mother from Des Moines who is leaning toward caucusing for Cruz.
Trump and Cruz have declined to criticize each other in the race so far, even as they battle for support in Iowa.
Last week, a Monmouth University poll put Cruz in the top spot for the first time – at 24 percent to Trump’s 19 percent among likely caucus-goers.
His jabs follow reports that Mr Cruz, who has been rising in opinion polls, criticised Mr Trump at a closed-door event.
But Cruz has more room to grow. The first is that he, like Trump, has a more committed base of support.
Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee and Chris Christie all are tied with 3%. The sparring comes ahead of Tues. night’s GOP televised debate in Las Vegas.
Businessman Donald Trump as well as the guy on his heels in the surveys, Sen.
Among the top four candidates in the poll, Cruz scores the highest on half of the 14 candidate attributes tested, with Trump winning the other half. Cruz is strongest on items related to presidential leadership, while Trump is strongest on questions related to getting specific things done, such as managing the economy, solving illegal immigration and reducing the deficit. The former Florida governor’s negatives are the highest among GOP candidates, with 54 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers viewing Bush unfavorably, Bloomberg said. Senators are picked by 30 percent, while a “government outsider who has handled complex issues and managed teams” is the preference of 39 percent.
The shift in Trump’s approach to Cruz is not insignificant: Cruz is the only nominee who has been largely saved from Trump’s insult- attacks that are heavy, and the Texas Republican has gone to great lengths to play nice using the Manhattan billionaire.
“I think this is, this is really the fruits of work that we have been doing for eight months now, systematically doing the long slow steady work of building a grassroots army”, Cruz said in SC.
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The Iowa Poll, taken December 7-10, included 400 likely Republican caucus participants. The margin of error is 4.9 percent.
