They expect Sanders to take both events: by 49% to 23% they think the Vermont Senator will carry the Iowa caucuses over Clinton, and by 55% to 16% they think he will do the same in New Hampshire.
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Republican Donald Trump, who has a slight edge over Ted Cruz in Iowa, predicted that “many” senators “soon” would endorse him rather than their Texas colleague.
“No, I see it as a hard-earned bump”, he said. On the Republican side, the new Poll of Polls finds Trump at 31%, Cruz 13%, Rubio 11%, Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 10%, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 8% and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 7%. “We are going to reach millions of people who aspire to a better future and I am going to be able to say to them, I grew up the way you are now”.
The back-and-forth comes as Trump has pulled ahead of Cruz in the final days of campaigning in Iowa, where Cruz had been surging until Trump began lobbing attacks at Cruz, most notably raising the issue of Cruz’s Canadian birthplace.
Trump said “I don’t have to win” in Iowa, before adding that he believes he has “a good chance” of a caucus victory.
Trump is hardly the only one who is attacking Cruz’s credibility on the trail.
“But in the end, we are going to bring everyone together”. And what the candidates are competing for aren’t votes, but support, as determined by a formula that takes past statewide and congressional district voting into account.
“Bernie Sanders is really on fire in Iowa, wherever we go”.
“I think there’s something so cool about Bernie running as a Democrat, a guy who was the only independent in the House for a long time, the only independent in the Senate”.
Meanwhile according to a new CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Centre, Trump backed by 30 percent likely Republican primary voters continues to hold more than double the support over Cruz (12 percent) in New Hampshire.
In explaining his pitch to voters, Cruz told Tapper he would follow through on his conservative campaign pledges, unlike his Republican opponents.
“Hi, this is Shelby and I’m a volunteer calling from the Marco Rubio campaign”, Shelby Truitt told a prospective voter Sunday.
“I get that it is unpleasant to have your record subject to scrutiny – to be potentially criticized – but this is a job interview”.
“I have big goals”, she told ABC. Trump leads Cruz by 4 points among those who say they will definitely attend, and by 6 points among those who say they’ll probably attend.
Cruz directed much of his final advertising against Marco Rubio as the senators’ feud grew even more bitter in the final day before the caucuses. “He’s very entertaining, but this campaign isn’t about that”, Rubio said.
Rubio said Republicans won’t beat Clinton “with someone that will say or do anything to get elected”.
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At a stop Saturday in Des Moines, Clinton thanked supporters for agreeing to caucus for her and said she hoped “to persuade some more of you because we’ve got to keep the progress going”.
