New polls show a new Republican leader in Iowa: Ted Cruz.
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One-time presumed frontrunner Jeb Bush – son of one president and brother to another – has a measly 6 per cent support, while all the other candidates have less than 3 per cent support.
The previous Quinnipiac poll of Iowa Republicans, on November 24th, showed Trump at 25%, Cruz at 23%, Carson at 18%, and Rubio at 13%. “And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for voters”. “But with the ethanol, really it’s – he’s got to come a long way cause he’s right now for the oil”. Not if Cruz has his way.
“When you look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there, like a, you know, frankly like a little bit of a maniac, you’re never going to get things done that way”, Trump said. You’re going to be so sick of me.
Cruz responded to this jab within hours.
As expected, Donald Trump has chose to attack Ted Cruz as Cruz’s numbers rise.
The exchange caps a tense weekend between the two Republican Oval Office hopefuls. “I do like Ted Cruz – but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness”, Trump said.
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta said at a private fundraising event in Berkeley, California, that Cruz is the likeliest nominee, followed by Trump, and then Rubio, according to Politico. The poll, from the Des Moines Register, is viewed as the gold standard of pre-caucus surveys and is sure to give Trump heartburn.
The back-and-forth between the candidates has escalated in the wake of new polls which show Cruz slowly gaining ground on Trump nationally and surpassing him in the crucial first primary state of Iowa.
Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, dropped to fourth place, with 11% support, down from 29% in late October.
Mr Rubio, who has seen a lift in his own poll standings in recent weeks, criticised his Senate colleague on defence spending, saying Mr Cruz talked about carpet-bombing Islamic State while voting to cut the military budget.
“You can’t, in these unsafe times, take tools away from the government, and he’s made the country weaker”, Christie said of Cruz.
Mr. Cruz led Mr. Trump by two points, 28 percent to 26 percent, in a Fox News poll released Sunday, and by five points, 24 percent to 19 percent, in a Monmouth University poll last week.
On Sunday, Trump noted Cruz’s friendliness.
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It’s also a given that there’s no shortage of big claims about the presidential contest coming from media sources of all descriptions, and that’s not likely to slow down anytime soon.
