The New Yorker spent more time on Friday poking Cruz for opposing ethanol subsidies, which are widely popular there.
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Trump does better with more independent-leaning voters. He’s the choice of 26 percent of Iowa GOP voters in this measure.
“I think Cruz will end up as the nominee”, Brock added, “and I think Trump will support him and have a big platform”.
Cruz, for example, on Thursday went to far as to deny having questioned if Trump had the proper “judgment” to be commander in chief even though the New York Times had posted an audio recording of comments in which he had done just that, Politico reported. Ted Cruz has consistently refused to criticize the real estate mogul, calling him a “good friend” and refusing to “blast” him.
Yet Trump, who has relished in whacking his Republican rivals, at times did not appear totally willing to give the same treatment to Cruz, who has yet to publicly call out Trump.
Cruz’s 21-percentage-point jump since October is the largest surge between Iowa Polls recorded in at least the last five presidential caucus campaigns.
“He’s a nice guy”. “But with the ethanol, really it’s – he’s got to come a long way cause he’s right now for the oil”. It requires the USA fuel supply to use a certain amount of ethanol. “I only like polls that treat me well”.
The mid-October Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll placed Trump at a nine-point disadvantage to Ben Carson at the time.
“I’m leading big in New Hampshire”.
But Cruz is well ahead of Rubio in the first state to vote in the Republican race, Iowa, where he topped a key opinion poll this week.
“We would certainly have things in mind for Ted”, Trump told a questioner.
As the fateful day fast approaches, Trump and Cruz are pursuing very different Iowa strategies. Just 2 percent support Martin O’Malley.
State Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, who introduced Trump at Friday’s rally, told the crowd, “This effort is useless if we don’t show up and caucus”.
“These polls are always flawed. I mean, everything I say he agrees with me, no matter what I say”, Trump began. Laudner disputed that polls accurately account for the number of Iowans who will ultimately turn out on caucus night for Trump. Rubio has said more radical groups could emerge unless Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is removed. “No one has ever seen it before, so it can not be diminished”.
During his remarks, Trump stressed the importance of winning the state. In the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, Trump modified his theme by saying he wants to “make America great and safe again”.
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Mary Johnson of Norwalk, who came with her husband, Rick, and son, Alex, to hear Trump speak, said she planned to caucus for him February 1. “But I like him nevertheless”.
