Quinnipiac: Trump still on top, but Rubio edges into second place

But for now he is in a free fall after scoring 23 percent in last month’s Quinnipiac poll.

Clinton still holds a wide lead on the Democratic nomination race, ahead 60 vs. 30 percent over Sen. While Christie has argued that President Obama’s performance in the White House means the next chief executive should not be a first-term senator, and the New Hampshire Union-Leader made the same argument in endorsing the New Jersey governor, voters said they felt differently.

Rubio, Florida’s freshman senator who appeals to both the conservative and establishment crowd, has moved into second place behind Trump at 17 percent.

Cruz added that he expects Hillary Clinton to run against “the condom police” in order to “try to scare a bunch of folks that are not paying a lot of attention into thinking someone’s going to steal their birth control”.

Cruz has returned fire, seeking to link Rubio to the foreign policy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and portraying Rubio as a supporter of widespread amnesty for illegal immigrants. The new poll shows 46 vs. 43 percent for Clinton and Carson, respectively. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush garners 5 percent support, while no other GOP candidate tops 3 percent. The margin of error is 4.1 percent for Democrats. And, Cruz’s trend line is quite clear and quite good.

Cruz didn’t identify any of his opponents, but said, “There is a real divide in this Republican primary about who actually is willing to take on Obamacare”.

From the Texas Tribune: Ted Cruz on Monday offered a spirited defense of Republicans on women’s health issues, accusing Democrats of creating a phony “war on women” based on claims that his party wants to restrict access to birth control.

In a general election head-to-head matchup, Clinton and Sanders have gained ground against the Republicans, coming out on top in almost every competition.

As has been the case in other polls, Trump leads the “definitely would not support” category, with 26 percent saying there’s no way they’d vote for him. Rubio will, rightly, be touted as the most likely nominee.

“Dr. Ben Carson, moving to center stage just one month ago, now needs some CPR”.

The latest update on the 2016 presidential polls has seen some major changes in the numbers of the candidates. But while the support of evangelicals may help a candidate win in Iowa, the state’s caucus goers have not picked the eventual Republican nominee since George W. Bush in 2000.

Rubio is a wily campaigner and debater, and Cruz may well have vulnerabilities that Rubio sees and we don’t. Cruz supported the bill that ended the government’s metadata collection program – a vote that a pro-Rubio group highlighted, casting it as weakening national security, in a new television advertisement in Iowa.