If Cruz is to prevail, he must pass Trump as well as other Republican opponents – including another first term senator, Marco Rubio of Florida, who has been the subject of Cruz attacks. Ted Cruz of Texas and 5 percent for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Cruz, who has 24 percent support among evangelicals, appears to have siphoned the bulk of those voters – last month he carried just 16 percent support in that category.
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Senator Ted Cruz shot up to the No. 2 spot for the first time in USA Today’s Power Rankings. A second will be conducted in January.
Donald Trump has extended his lead in the Republican’s United States presidential nomination race amid a fresh bout of controversy over his remarks about Muslims, while Hillary Clinton has consolidated her lead among Democrats, a poll shows.
Cruz suspects that Democrats such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are making up fabrications about Republicans wanting to ban contraceptives because they share opposing views on other issues important to women-such as abortion. Early last month, 38% of the respondents said yes to the questions, now just 28% are in agreement. This shift in focus has boosted Trump, who’s honed an image of strength in the minds of many voters, as well as Carson, and Rubio.
“But also in that poll, what I read a lot into is the rise of Rubio and Sen”.
Rubio spokesman Alex Conant responded: “While Senator Cruz voted to gut USA intelligence programs and make Americans less safe, nobody has shown a better understanding of the threats we face in the 21st Century than Marco”.
Presidential hopeful Cruz, ascending, now within striking distance of Trump in Iowa.
“They do one hell of a job”, he said of the police. PolitiFact rated the ad’s claim that Cruz stopped Rubio from passing an amnesty bill as “mostly false”.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to lead the field nationally.
The poll was taken from November 23-30.
Voters ranked the economy and jobs as as their top issue.
The poll was compiled through phone interviews with 1,074 registered voters between November 2-15. The poll included 672 Republican or Republican-leaning voters and 573 Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters.
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The results broadly match statewide polling two months before Iowa voters kick off the nominating calendar on February 1, and heighten the urgency for those candidates bunched together at the bottom of the pile to alter the trajectory of their campaigns. It ended the federal government having your cell phone information and my cell phone information.
