Dick Morris: Trump and Cruz Won’t ‘Go After Each Other’

Even as the political media began to recognize that Donald Trump’s lead wasn’t going anywhere, they still clung to the delusion that he couldn’t win.

It was indeed unusual for Trump.

Christmas has come early for Ted Cruz in the form of recent poll results.

The jury is still out on whether the strategy will work. Thirty-three percent said Trump, followed closely by Cruz at 28 percent. That may not make too much difference when it comes to a large lead like Trump’s, but it does make some difference, and it would have a significant impact on the standing of the other candidates.

The latest controversies over Trump talk involve his December 7 call to bar Muslims from entering the United States, and verbal attacks Monday on Clinton.

Since the weekend both Trump and Hillary Clinton have been publicly sparring.

The national trend nevertheless continues to tilt The Donald’s way, to the consternation of rivals including Jeb Bush, who lambasted Trump as a “jerk” at the weekend.

As 2015 draws to a close, American billionaire Donald Trump has emerged as a clear front-runner in the Republican presidential race, a new poll published Wednesday shows. Top Republican office-holders, strategists and lobbyists keep saying that Cruz and Trump will suffer the same fate.

The former Secretary of State leads Sen.

In a stark contrast to Trump’s quick stop in Portsmouth to pick up the endorsement of the New England Police Benevolent Association, Christie spends hours in coffee shops and has held numerous town halls where he fields questions on everything from Syria to healthcare to taxes. In June, right after Trump announced his candidacy, 20% of Republican voters thought that he could best handle the economy, compared with 16% for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Bush said during an interview on Face the Nation which is scheduled to broadcast this Sunday and was taped at New Hampshire just after he told audience at a town hall that Trump is a jerk. Hypothetically, should two or three of these candidate drop out and perhaps even endorse one of the others, it might allow more moderate, establishment republican voters to coalesce behind one anti-Trump candidate. Emerging signs in the poll shows that Cruz’s debate performance may have helped improve his appeal, though he remains well behind Trump. By comparison, Christie had only 9 hours, 51 minutes and 19 seconds. That’s more than double the share backing Cruz, who, at 18%, has inched up 2 points since the last CNN/ORC poll, which was taken in late November. Prior to these polls, the New Jersey Governor had been moving up in the polling in New Hampshire, but that movement was failing to materialize anywhere else, and most especially in the national polls. The last town hall he held here was in September.

Many donors say they are pleased with their candidate’s focus on the front-runner.

Republican Marco Rubio, however, is starting to draw attention for his lack of time in New Hampshire.

Rubio joined U.S. Sen.

Christie tied U.S. Sen.

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Republican Rick Santorum, considered a long-shot White House contender in 2012, pulled off an upset victory in Iowa by visiting all of its 99 counties.

Of course, that’s a fairly skewed sample, since most Republican strategists firmly believed four years ago that Mitt Romney was bound to become our next president.