The poll, ordered by Bloomberg Politics and The Des Moines Register, gave Mr Cruz a 10-point lead over Mr Trump. “She’s killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity”, Trump said on Fox.
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As recently as October, Cruz, 44, had just 10 percent support in a Monmouth poll. He now sits atop with 31 percent of support compared to Trump’s 21 percent. Ted Cruz speaks in New Hampshire in April.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 41 percent of Republican voters believe Trump’s rhetoric would hurt his chances in the election.
In fact, if Cruz reacts the way his recent actions would seem to indicate, it will only serve to bolster Trump in the minds of voters who don’t want a truckling wimp for a candidate.
Billionaire Donald Trump, who until last week had a comfortable lead over Cruz, came in second at 21 percent. ‘And by the way – and, again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness.
“If we win Iowa, I think we run the table”, the real estate mogul said on Friday at a rally in Des Moines. They only struck out in the two years Iowa got it right, voting for Pat Buchanan in 1996 and John McCain in 2000.
Seven weeks from the caucuses, Ted Cruz is crushing it in Iowa.
(U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP, File).
Trump also publicly called out the newspaper at a rally in Des Moines. “I only like polls that treat me well”.
According to that poll, he has 27 percent support nationally, while Cruz has 22 percent. I don’t recall anywhere near that movement in the 2000 GOP race (Bush won the Straw Poll and led through the Caucuses).
On the Democratic side, the Fox News poll shows Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders by a wide margin, 50 percent to 36 percent.
“Anything could and likely will happen before caucus night”. It was pretty brutal four days ago for trump. “And there’s no advantage to lock in, so why would they?”
“It’s very important to me that I win Iowa”, he said, “because, if we win Iowa, I think we run the table”. And the Cruz operation in Iowa continues to hire new field organizers and build up its robust volunteer program. That’s way ahead of Ted Cruz, at just 16 percent, and Ben Carson, at 13 percent. It’s like finding a lot of needles in a haystack. But Trump did criticize reports that Republican leaders gathered in Washington to discuss ways to stop him.
“It’s very, very hard to poll”. You’re never going to get things done that way. “No one has ever seen it before, so it can not be diminished”.
Cruz’s dramatic surge in Iowa may surprise most political reporters, whose time is consumed with following Donald Trump.
As the New York Times pointed out, we’re not sure “whatever that means”, but as Truthout further purports, Cruz’s comments could be suggestive of chemical warfare.
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CLAY MASTERS, BYLINE: Ditching his normal podium, Donald Trump walked around a stage in a building on the Iowa state fairgrounds.
