Ted Cruz for president was long expected. “Trump has proven to be stronger and more resilient than anyone expected”.
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The rest of the candidates were far behind: Jeb Bush, who dropped out of the race after the SC primary, had 6 percent; John Kasich, 5 percent; and Ben Carson, 4 percent.
The Internet-based statewide poll was conducted between February 12 and February 19 by the market research firm YouGov. He played down his third-place finishes in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, saying that in the last two Cruz “basically tied for second”. Cruz won the Iowa caucuses in something of an upset over Trump, who had been leading polls for weeks before the voting started.
Trump dominated with 45.9 percent of the vote and gaining 14 delegates with Rubio beating out the Texas Senator with 23.9 percent and adding seven delegates.
Clinton had a 10 point lead over Sen. That is a surprising finding, considering Cruz is from Houston.
Cruz tried to address the Trump threat. Cruz finished third in each of those races. The most important thing to 22 percent of Sanders’ voters was to “address economic inequality in the country”, followed by 16 percent who said they want to “shake up politics as usual”.
“I love coming to Texas because a lot of people here have common sense”, he said.
“The terrain is very favorable”. “We can’t be fooled by PT Barnum”, said Cruz. “Cruz exudes a determination that sort of borders on the frantic”.
“What the Cruz campaign needs now is an image- and morale-boosting signature victory in Texas, one that signals to a national audience that the Cruz presidential bid is alive and well, ” said Mark Jones, political science professor at Rice University. Those charges have stuck to him because he has a lean and hungry look that worries people.
Most at the dinner wore Cruz stickers and held up “TrustTed” signs.
Among likely primary voters, 42 percent said Trump would be a awful president, while 13 percent said he would be a poor president.
And Trump looms large in all the Super Tuesday states.
Early voting in Texas ends Friday.
METHODOLOGY: Of the 1,750 Texas adults interviewed in either English or Spanish, 1,531 were registered to vote in Texas.
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“It is good to be home”, the Texas senator told 1,000 Republican activists gathered for the Harris County Republican Party Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. Respondents reachable on a home telephone were interviewed on their home telephone in the recorded voice of a professional announcer.
