But Cruz’s 2-point edge is within the poll’s margin of error, and it’s not clear if the survey captures real movement in the race or is simply an outlier. Marco Rubio is the only other presidential candidate who is not in net negative territory. Senator Marco Rubio placed third at 15 percent, while OH governor John Kasich placed fourth at nine percent.
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The polls certainly have been in Trump’s favor here in SC, in a way that reminds some of how they held strongly for the GOP leader in New Hampshire as well. It’s a familiar argument made by Cruz opponents, namely one Donald Trump. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, addresses the audience during a presidential forum at First Baptist North Spartanburg in Spartanburg, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016.
“I think most of the polls were taken after the debate and they worked out good for me”, Trump said Wednesday during a MSNBC town hall in Charleston, South Carolina, ahead of the State’s Saturday primary where he still leads by double digits.
Eighty percent of Trump supporters in SC also support banning Muslims from entering the country, an idea proposed by Trump in campaign speeches.
The CBS poll is a change back to the normal for Trump, who found himself staring up at Cruz in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released late Wednesday.
Once again, Cruz will have to defend his eligibility to serve as president after Donald Trump revived questions about his birth in Canada. The survey has a higher percentage of “very conservative” Republican voters than the January poll.
Trump has continued to dominate the next two Republican contests, however, according to a pair of CNN/ORC polls released this week.
“It’s hard for me to be lectured to by a gifted young guy who thinks going to committee hearings means you know something about the world”, Bush said in Summerville.
“Virginia Democrats continue to be hesitant on Clinton”, said Kidd. Rubio laughed at the time.
At the event, Bush, 63, the son and brother of former presidents, sounded a note of frustration at frequent criticism of his campaign by TV pundits.
Rubio continued his assault against Cruz’s campaign tactics.
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“It’s all decided, I mean we don’t have to go vote I guess, it’s all finished”.
