It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump is at the top of our rankings and has held that spot since August.
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Monday’s protest was a bit different, though; particularly because the protester who was wearing a Trump hat and pin claimed to “love Trump”.
But Kaufmann said he’s most concerned about ensuring the results are credible, especially following the 2011 caucuses in which the votes were too close to call and a victor was declared prematurely. “I wanted some new jokes”. “I just wanted to reach voters in Iowa”. Most legal experts believe Cruz’s American mother is enough to qualify him for the presidency as a “natural-born citizen”, but courts have never ruled on the issue.
Only 32% of Iowa Republicans think someone born in another country should be allowed to serve as President, to 47% who think such a person shouldn’t be allowed to serve as President.
Perhaps hoping to burnish that image, campaign staff said Cruz was in New Hampshire and would not be in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night for President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address to Congress.
We are less than one month away from voters in Iowa and New Hampshire caucusing and casting ballots in the GOP presidential nominating contest. The rest of the field is under 10 percent and showing no signs of moving up.
The Iowa Republican Caucuses are shaping up to be a two-man race between Trump and Ted Cruz, according to the Quinnipiac poll.
He went on, “I’m also pleased to tell you Donald last week finished building the wall”, and without missing a beat added, “Donald paid for it!”
On Wednesday, the day after the interview, Trump continued to knock Cruz over his qualifications, tweeting, “Sadly, there is no way that @TedCruz can continue running in the Republican primary unless he can erase doubt on eligibility”.
For his part, Trump has far more aggressively dished out attacks at Cruz. Carson now draws support from just 3 percent of likely GOP voters in New Hampshire, where he polled at 16 percent as recently as November.
Public Polling Policy’s survey Tuesday shows Trump leading Cruz 28-26, with Rubio at 13 percent, while ARG’s Monday poll has Trump with a 4-point lead over Cruz, with Rubio in third.
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And since the real estate mogul last week began suggesting the Texas senator may not be eligible to be president given his birth, Cruz has also begun to needle Trump’s style of campaigning. But Trump’s willingness to break the rules of what a politician – conservative or not – should say or do, continues to be more of a strength than a weakness.
