Ted Cruz is surging in the polls. Donald Trump is not happy

Trump said Cruz largely agrees with him, but he criticized Cruz’s opposition to ethanol subsidies, which are deeply popular in Iowa. “Look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there – like, you know, frankly, like a little bit of a maniac”.

Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, is emerging as the candidate to beat Donald Trump in the Republican presidential nomination contest. Ted Cruz is a distant fourth place in that race and in a poll of South Carolina Republicans, Cruz stands at third place behind Trump, who is in first place, and Ben Carson.

“Some are suggesting that Trump is still strong, particularly given that he’s actually up 2% from the last poll”, said Hagle. Indeed, the only time the state has missed the eventual nominee since 1980 is last time around, when Republicans rejected Mitt Romney in favor of Newt Gingrich, during the former Speaker’s brief moment in the presidential sun.

But final week he questioned Trump’s judgment at a personal fundraiser, in accordance with the New York Times, after the billionaire businessman advocated briefly banning Muslims from getting into america.

“No, I don’t think he does, and I like him”, he said. “I mean I could be saying anything and he’d say, I agree I agree”, Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.

On the Democratic side, the Fox News poll shows Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders by a wide margin, 50 percent to 36 percent.

Texas US Senator Ted Cruz has solidified his lead among Republican presidential contenders in the politically crucial state of Iowa, a new poll showed. Marco Rubio at 10 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 6 percent.

Cruz’s ascent has come as Carson has faltered. But while the rest of Cruz’s tweet took the Trump/Cruz “cage match” off the table, Trump felt differently. It will likely also be a shock to most members of the Republican establishment, who, when they’re not wringing their hands over Trump, are trying to decide between Bush or Rubio as the moderate standard-bearer.

Among the top four candidates in the poll, Cruz scores the highest on half of the 14 candidate attributes tested, with Trump winning the other half.

Like Carson then, Cruz just started to surge in Iowa, the influential first caucus state, though a pair of recent polls disagreed about whether Trump or Cruz was ahead there. And I think this – what this tells us is that the race is changing.

If I were Cruz, I’d politely ask The Donald to attack me even more.

“I was against going into Iraq”, Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on “State of the Union”. “There’s no question as I haven’t spent a lot of time schmoozing and asking for big money and going to cocktail parties, but I’ve spent many a night in the operating room, cold, sterile place with a little child’s life on the line working very hard to preserve that”, Carson said.