Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who led Trump in some Iowa polls last month, has fallen to third place with 18 percent.
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Trump took 25 percent of support, followed by 23 percent who opted for the freshman Texas senator, more than doubling his support in the same poll from October, when he earned just 10 percent.
Donald Trump held a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, and the super-pac supporting Ohio governor John Kasich chose to warmly welcome him with a new web ad reminding voters of some of the front-runner’s “greatest hits”.
“The other candidates will need miraculous comebacks to crack the top tier with slightly more than two months before the voting begins”, Brown added.
With new subjects to handle in the nominating race, the foreign policy and the terrorism issue, it looks like Ted Cruz is riding high, as he surpassed Ben Carson in the new poll in Iowa. And everybody else is well behind them. He has also – in common with other Republican candidates – opposed the entry of Syrian refugees into the USA and pledged to send back those already admitted.
Cruz has said the question has always been settled and has pointed out that two former solicitors general – one a Democrat and one a Republican – have concluded that he is a natural born citizen as defined by the constitution. Marco Rubio has 13 percent. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the 2008 caucus and former Sen. Cruz narrowly outperformed Trump and Carson among white, born-again evangelical Christians, receiving 27% to Carson’s 24% and Trump’s 20%.
Republican leaders said Trump is taking it too far. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul rounded out the top-five with just 5 percent of support, down a point since last month.
This really has been a flawless little snow globe of the Ben Carson and Donald Trump campaigns, hasn’t it?
That dovetails with a Gallup Poll Tuesday showing that the first-term senators are closing in on Carson’s 49 percent “most popular” rating.
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The survey was conducted among 600 likely Republican caucus-goers from November 16-22 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
