The Republican frontrunner ditched a live Fox News battle with other leading candidates after a row with the TV station.
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“While the overall results favor Trump, the poll offers some good news for Cruz as well: “The Des Moines Register writes, “‘The drill-down shows, if anything, stronger alignment with Cruz than Trump, except for the horse race, ‘ said J. Ann Selzer, the pollster for the Iowa Poll”.
In total, Trump’s antisocial debate behavior won him almost 31,000 new Twitter followers and more than 17,000 new Facebook followers, according to Engagement Labs. Ted Cruz, (R) presidential candidate.
As previously reported, Trump, 69, boycotted the Fox-hosted debate because of his ongoing feud with the “Kelly File” host. “If Fox News has no Trump, then I am all Trump”, he said before presenting “The 2016 Top Tremendous All-You-Can Trump Luxury Presidential Debate”. The poll was conducted January 26 – 29, and included 602 registered Iowa voters planning to vote in the Republican caucus. He held his own debate pitting Trump versus, well, Trump.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is trailing in third place among Republicans with 15 percent support and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has 10 percent.
While Trump led the field in terms of mentions, Yik Yak, a location-based mobile app popular with millennials, said on Friday that Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky had the highest approval rating with app users at 73.6 percent. Trump said, adding “but, he’s an anchor baby, no, he’s an anchor baby – Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada”. “Tonight, it is Donald vs. Trump, or as they are known by their celebrity couple name, Dump”.
“Okay, so no one, no one likes Ted Cruz”, Colbert said.
Fox News Channel would like you to know its GOP presidential candidates debate numbers were, well, huge!
And during the debate, Cruz joked: “Gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question I may have to leave the stage”.
Trump stands at 28 percent in the Iowa Poll among those likely to caucus on Monday, with Texas Sen.
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Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier hit back at Trump in a statement Friday, knocking the NY billionaire’s past support for legal abortion and praiseworthy comments about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
