U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a 2nd Amendment Coalition announcement at CrossRoads Shooting Sports in Johnston, Iowa, December 4, 2015.
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Limbaugh added that a “genuine conservative wouldn’t go after Cruz in this way”. He is a senior fellow at the Liberty University Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, a senior contributing editor at The Christian Post and a regular contributor to The Blaze and Fox News. This is an interesting development that comes at a time when Trump was hoping he had Iowa in the bag, going so far as to say that if they got Iowa, they will “run the table”.
The Monmouth poll was released Monday at the same time Quinnipiac University came out with an Iowa poll showing Trump (28 percent) and Cruz (27 percent) vying for the lead.
Ted Cruz is condemning the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, but is refusing to blame the attack on the anti-abortion rhetoric that has consumed stretches of the Republican primary campaign. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., addresses supporters during a rally in Las Vegas. Trump “So he has made a decision to go after Cruz here in the way the establishment Republicans go after Cruz, in the way the media goes after Cruz, in the way the Democrats go after Cruz”, Limbaugh ranted.
Cruz rose to 31 percent, above Trump’s 21 percent, in an Iowa poll released on Saturday by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg News. Bush, Rubio and Cruz have been roughly steady in the Granite State lately. “I think we need to be the national security party, the party of strong national security, committed to ensuring we have the strongest military force in the world”.
“There are some differences in policy”, Rubio said of Cruz in an interview Monday with The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Trump, whose odds of winning the Republican nomination quickly plummeted from 33% to 22% a day after he called “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, back up to 27%.
Most New Yorkers are not politically correct and if you ask them a question be prepared to get a very honest answer. Just 12 percent said they would be dissatisfied, while 16 percent said they would be upset. Marco Rubio; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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An earlier so-called “undercard” debate will feature four contenders who did not do well enough in national state polls to qualify for the main debate stage: former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and former NY governor George Pataki. All others are at three percent or lower.
