Trump supporters (46%) are the most likely to say their candidate choice is completely locked in.
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On Sunday, Cruz will launch a five-day bus tour of New Hampshire, making 18 stops in all
10 counties of the Granite State.
As a result of his having been born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 and thus having his Article II presidential eligibility questioned in 2008, Senator McCain knows this issue firsthand.
Campaigning Tuesday across New Hampshire, where Trump holds a dominant lead, Cruz responded much more sharply to Trump’s taunts than he has in the past. “I don’t think so”.
Republican rivals have condemned those remarks as inflammatory, but they have not dented Trump’s popularity among Republican voters, who are overwhelmingly white. “Donald comes from NY and he embodies NY values”, Cruz said, adding that “The Donald seems to be a little bit rattled” over his position in the polls.
After months of being careful to not criticize Trump’s campaign, Cruz has grown increasingly tart when asked about Trump over the past two weeks. Even though Cruz identifies as Southern Baptist, Trump has asserted that “not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba”, a heavily Catholic country.
Tuesday on Fox News, Trump said, “You have a cloud over Ted’s head”.
“Well, listen, anytime someone is attacking your faith, that starts to suggest they’re getting really nervous about what’s happening in the race”, Cruz told Carr.
It’s the latest round in an escalating rivalry between two outsider candidates locked in a virtual tie in polls in the early-voting state of Iowa.
“Our support has been steadily, gradually increasing each and every day”, he said. The man, wearing a “Make America Great Again” had, insisted that he was a Trump supporter as he was escorted out, CNN reported. This includes Trump (26% would feel enthusiastic and 30% satisfied), Cruz (20% enthusiastic and 44% satisfied), Rubio (13% enthusiastic and 51% satisfied), or Christie (9% enthusiastic and 47% satisfied). Trump said a declaratory judgment would pre-empt a suit that he said Democrats would file against the Republican Party if Cruz were the nominee.
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“The challenge to Hillary, if Trump is the nominee and pivots to the center in the general election as a problem-solving, independent-minded, successful “get it done” businessman is that Democrats will no longer be able to count on his personality and outrageous sound bites to disqualify him in the voters’ minds”, Howard said, according to U.S. News & World Report. “The Hillary folks are very eager to support Donald Trump”.
