Trump Rises In New Poll As Carson Plunges To Third

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Cruz is one of the only opponents Trump hasn’t attacked during his candidacy.

Cruz and Rubio can both claim some tea party roots, but in the Senate they have taken different paths on their way to the presidential race.

“Imagine for a second you’re Hillary Clinton”, said Cruz. The Iowa primary is on February 1.

Trump was previously in a statistical tie with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has seen his support drop sharply to 16 percent from 23 percent.

“Those supporters who support [Trump] will support him through and through. The competition is in full swing to try to out-conservative each other”. “That’s the way I’ve been, and some people like that frankly, and some people don’t like that”. This has benefited Marco Rubio, as he’s become the top pick for voters who say foreign policy is the most important issue in the 2016 election.

Trump was well received in Macon, a Republican stronghold in central Georgia, but about one-third of the crowd started trickling out after Trump spoke for about an hour in order to get a head start in navigating an overcrowded parking lot.

Cruz vexed many fellow Republicans by refusing to back down from stances that at times have backfired, putting a stain on the entire GOP. He made no reference to the Friday shooting in Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood facility, but renewed his pledge that he would instruct the Department of Justice to investigate the health care provider on his first day in the White House.

He considers his notoriety among the GOP establishment a badge of honor.

“And it’s a great example when the war on women came up”, Cruz said. Ted Cruz of Texas and 5 percent for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, according to the poll. After garnering media scrutiny over his unusual theories on the Egyptian pyramids and his seeming lack of foreign policy understanding, his polling cratered by almost 7 points from November to December.

“Well, I think there has been some vicious rhetoric on the left”.

And on Monday, Cruz heaped some praise on Trump: “Listen, I like Donald Trump”. Rubio is also framing himself as the face of a “new American century”–he frequently invokes the story of his Cuban parents and said the country needs a new generation of leaders.

The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and the nation as a public service and for research.

Trump and Cruz have been fairly amicable to each other, even appearing together at a rally to oppose the Iran nuclear agreement.