Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
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Trump told Tapper that voters should pick him over Cruz because he’s “more capable” to lead the country and that he gets along with people “much better” than Cruz.
But striking from the poll is the Trump and Cruz’s combined majority of support in the still large Republican field.
The unusually cordial relationship between two of the top contenders for the GOP nomination fractured late last week and appears to be entering a new phase.
Rubio, a Florida U.S. senator who has framed himself as someone who can deliver “a new American century”, is in fourth place with 10%.
The Minnesota stop is part of Cruz’s 12 city tour in states that, like Minnesota, will hold presidential caucuses or primaries on March 1.
But Cruz was quoted questioning Trump’s foreign-policy “judgment” at a closed-door event earlier this week. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida had 10 percent.
Mr. Rubio placed third at 15 percent, followed by Mr. Carson at 11 percent, Mr. Bush at 7 percent and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina at 5 percent.
If you are travelling by Air New Zealand this week, remember Koru Lounge wi-fi provides you with FREE access to NBR ONLINE premium content. That is a 21-point jump from October. He said the senator’s tactics in Congress had demonstrated that he would be incapable of driving the legislative agenda from the White House, and at one point called Cruz a “little bit of a maniac”.
“We know that there’s often a substantial amount of movement just before the Caucuses”, Hagle said on Saturday night.
The polling business, Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, is considered one of the best at predicting the state, which is notoriously hard to poll accurately. The center-right Republican voters are looking for someone to stop Trump and Cruz at nearly any cost. This is within the poll’s margin of error, essentially putting the two in a dead heat for frontrunner status. Bernie Sanders and Robert Lewis Dear, the 57-year-old who opened fire at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs and killed three people.
Trump has been ramping up his attacks against Cruz in recent days, coming out with digs about the Texas Republican’s religion and his loyalty to the oil industry. Cruz says the subsidies are an example of government interference in the free market.
Ben Carson, after leading an October survey by the same pollster, commissioned by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics, tumbled to 13 percent.
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If this prediction is on point, it’s likely to be reflected in the rhetoric of both Cruz’s Republican cohort and his Democrat opponents in the next round of presidential debates for both parties this week. That strategy has been tested as Cruz’s candidacy gains traction, especially in Iowa, where a survey released Tuesday found Cruz beating Trump for the first time.
