Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has surged in most recent polls, was at 14%.
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The NBC-Wall Street Journal poll shows Clinton stands neck and neck with Rubio, Cruz and Carson. Minutes before the poll went out, Trump promoted a different Iowa poll that still has him in the lead. Cruz is about nine points ahead of Trump among non-college voters (32 to 23) and he’s maintained an 11 point lead over Trump among the college educated. Marco Rubio of Florida at 10 percent and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 9 percent.
He was at 3 percent in the Monmouth poll, down from 5 percent in October and in freefall from his 15 percent support in July, when he led the Republican field.
However, Trump was still annoyed by Cruz’s comments, implying that Cruz was afraid to acknowledge what he said.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts after filing his declaration of candidacy to appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot in the Secretary of State’s office in Concord, New Hampshire, November 4, 2015. “What do we say, what do we say?’ ‘Well the manual says go after him for not being able to work together in the Senate and so forth and so on'”.
In a morning headline today, Bloomberg Politics proclaimed that Cruz is poised to “steal Iowa” from Trump.
“I was against going into Iraq”.
Cruz had a lighthearted response to the “maniac” label on Twitter later on Sunday, posting a link to a video clip from the 1983 film “Flashdance” showing star Jennifer Beals dancing energetically as the hit song “Maniac” plays on the soundtrack.
SEN. TED CRUZ [R-TX]: I like Donald Trump.
That criticism has probably rankled Trump.
CORDES: Nationwide, the real estate mogul still has a big lead, beating Cruz by almost 20 points in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Ted Cruz, now the leading GOP candidate in Iowa, but with only by a three-point margin.
It’s a far cry from reading your rival’s private cell-phone number on live TV, and Cruz’s camp tried to smooth things over by saying that of course the election is about deciding who has the right judgment to be commander in chief.
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Later in his show, Limbaugh – who lauded Cruz as being “just brilliant in the way he’s been behaving” during the campaign and said Cruz has now “forced Trump into a couple of major blunders” – suggested the latest attack was “so unlike Trump” and a “huge mistake”.
