While Donald Trump still holds a 20 point lead among Republican voters in New Hampshire, Cruz has climbed into second place with 14 points according to the latest CNN poll released Wednesday. He was crushing former Gov. Jeb Bush and the Sunshine States junior Sen.
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“I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word “Republican” – not very often”, Dole said, adding, “I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him”.
Donald Trump is now leading the field, with 34.8 per cent support nationally, followed by Mr Cruz with 18.8 and Mr Rubio at 11.6 per cent.
It very much is becoming a two-man race between me and Donald, one of the signs of that, is you are seeing the Washington establishment dumping their candidates. Dole, however, expressed concern about the possibility of Cruz getting the nomination, and said he felt Trump was the best chance the party had of avoiding a Cruz candidacy.
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said that nominating Ted Cruz would mean “cataclysmic” loses for the GOP.
For months, the press and the Republican establishment alike have been expecting the Trump bubble to implode.
Trump maintains a 26 percent to 25 percent edge over Cruz.
He mentioned that the Texas senator voted with Paul on a bill to rein in government surveillance, but that Cruz said in a debate that he voted for the bill because it allows the government to collect more records of terrorists. “If they look down the road and they see Trump as president, they think they’ll be able to go to Trump and make deals and agree with the Democrats and come up with compromises and so forth”.
Beck is breaking ranks with Palin, the GOP’s vice-presidential candidate in 2008, who earlier this week endorsed NY billionaire Trump.
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“I can talk personally about this, I guess it is kinda the elephant in the room because my own family is going through”, Palin said. In 2014, Cruz was not yet an official candidate, but the Texas Republican nevertheless made a lot of public appearances before far-right audiences, laying the groundwork for his future campaign. “‘Remember President Dole? Do you remember President McCain?’ The inference was that we were all a bunch of liberals, and only he is a true conservative”.
