Ted Cruz Is New Iowa GOP Presidential Front-Runner

Texas US Senator Ted Cruz has solidified his lead among Republican presidential contenders in the politically crucial state of Iowa, a new poll showed. “You’re never going to get things done that way”, Trump said.

Cruz, on the other hand, does not get along with everybody, Trump said. Marco Rubio of Florida, with 10 percent, was the only other candidate in the double digits. A national poll, the NBC/Wall Street poll, shows that he is still ahead of Ted Cruz.

Those battles are likely to come to a head when the candidates meet in person Tuesday night for CNN’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.

On foreign policy, Cruz has denounced Obama for doing too little to fight Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and he says his strategy would be to “carpet-bomb them into oblivion”. Ted Cruz is “a bit of a maniac” who doesn’t have the “right temperament” to be president.

Donald Trump’s apparent belief that the Republican primary contest is now a two-person race between himself and Sen.

Mr Trump also attacked Mr Cruz as the gloves well and truly came off between the two rivals for the hardline conservative vote in the November 2016 White House election.

“He’s been so nice to me”.

Trump has become increasingly willing to jab at Cruz amid his surge in polls, where he is challenging Trump’s status as the front-runner in the influential first-caucus state of Iowa. “He’ll never get anything done”. I actually have a great relationship with people. Jeb Bush was at 6 percent, a 1 percent increase from October.

“I’ve been hearing about these closed-door meetings and I don’t like that”, Trump told Tapper.

Nationwide, Trump continues to hold onto his lead in the GOP field at 35 percent, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.

“He said it behind my back”, Trump said, before claiming Cruz does not have the right temperament and judgment for the job of president.

“I’m more capable”, Trump told CNN’s State of the Union.

“I didn’t do it for polls, so I don’t care what the polls say … If it’s that way, they are going to have problems, but I hope it’s not going to be that way”. “I don’t think the polls are accurate”, said Trump, who has spent much of his campaign highlighting positive polling.

“There is no way that I, or anybody else who is running, is an expert in every area”, he said, and pointed to the way chief executives run their companies.

The day before the release of the poll, Trump also spoke out against Cruz at a town hall in Des Moines. “And, you know, if that is the case, then, you know, I’m out of here”.