Donald Trump climbed from 23 percent to 34 percent in Fox News’ latest Iowa poll, while Ted Cruz dropped from 27 percent to 23 percent.
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Speaking to supporters in a crowded high school gym, Trump focused the brunt of his attacks on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose campaign launched attack ads against Trump, and on Texas Sen.
After the event, Trump declined to answer when asked by CNN to clarify his comments.
He warned that a Trump victory in the February 1 caucuses could have lasting consequences: “If Donald Trump wins, it’s going to be a snowball to hell”.
Burr obviously wants to discredit the story, but the senator appears to be in a standoff with the Associated Press, and the feelings about Cruz among some in the GOP establishment aren’t helping Burr here. Twenty percent of Republican voters said that they dislike Trump so much that they would vote for the Democratic candidate instead.
Trump also once again raised the issue of Cruz’s Canadian birthplace, which has become a staple of the NY billionaire’s stump speech – with Trump suggesting that Cruz does not meet the constitutional requirement that the president be a “natural-born citizen”.
Trump on Saturday also raised the subject of Cruz’s previously undisclosed loans he received from Goldman Sachs and Citibank to finance his political campaign that propelled him to the Senate. They said Rubio “represents his party’s best hope”, though they interestingly did not indicate whether their support was conditional on Rubio not trying to murder anyone.
“If you have a candidate for 60 years of his life has supported partial birth abortion, we should not be surprised if as president, that candidate would not defend that right to life”, said Cruz.
“Iowa, I beg you”, Beck said as the state’s caucus approaches.
On Saturday, Trump started the day in Sioux Center in northwest Iowa. And, of course, this follows the appearance earlier this week with Trump of Sarah Palin, who endorsed him. You need to think these things through, and if it’s not popular, persuade people toward your cause.
“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing”, Trump told Fox and Friends in November, after attendees at one of his rallies beat and kicked a black man there to protest the candidate. “He’s gone down big in the polls”, Trump said. Barack Obama in Iowa in 2008. “I mean, I have people that are so loyal that it’s been so reported”.
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Marco Rubio remains firmly, if distantly, in third place, with 13% backing.
