Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, said his rival Cruz would “never get anything done” because he can’t get along with people.
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For Trump, the poll marks a 13-percentage-point jump in his support from the last Monmouth survey, conducted in October.
The post was just the latest in a weekend long online Twitter match triggered by increased competition between the two front-running Republican candidates. Three percent are undecided and 53 percent of those who named a candidate said they might change their mind. Hot off strong debate performances earlier this summer, Fiorina rocketed to the top-tier both nationally and in New Hampshire, but she’s since fallen to single digits, most recently clocking in at just 2 percent in the latest national Monmouth University poll.
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That would be Texas Senator Ted Cruz, at 22 percent.
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“I think it’s been made into something it wasn’t meant to be”.
Hillary Clinton would thump Donald Trump but would lose to Marco Rubio or Ben Carson in a projected 2016 USA presidential election, according to a survey published Monday by the NBC News network and the daily Wall Street Journal. Ted Cruz, embraced the Muslim ban as a “great idea”. The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll found that among those who said they supported Trump, 73 per cent said they viewed Cruz favourably, while 49 per cent picked him as their second-choice candidate. In Monmouth’s last poll of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, Sen. “I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba”, he said of the country where Cruz’s father, an evangelical preacher, was born.
Colvin reported from New Hampshire and Iowa. “You don’t get the whole picture”.
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More broadly, Rubio’s campaign is eager to cast Cruz, who prides himself on being a conservative “truth-teller”, as a politically expedient flip-flopper who is willing to say whatever is necessary to win an election. In 2012 and 2008, only about 6% of the state’s registered voters participated in the Republican caucuses, and whether turnout this time around will be similar is a question that can’t be answered until the caucuses themselves are complete.
