Ted Cruz Takes the Gloves Off

Interestingly, five percent have seen Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and three percent have seen Sen. “And so they’re doing everything they can to amplify Donald’s attacks”, Cruz told radio host Howie Carr.

The numbers are similar to the previous week’s tracking poll, which showed Trump at 35 percent and Cruz at 18 percent.

According to the PPP data, the top second choices of Cruz supporters in Iowa are Rubio (23 percent) and Trump (21 percent). He’s focused more of his energy on the first caucus state of Iowa, where he’s now battling Trump for a first-place finish.

Even respondents with a favorable opinion of Rubio are more skeptical of his level of experience than Cruz’s, the poll finds. Some believe that to be a natural born citizen that a person must be born on United States soil; others believe that the requirement to be an American citizen means one of your parents is an American regardless of where you are born.

Asked in Decorah, Iowa last week how he differs from Trump, Cruz offered that he is campaigning in the “Iowa way” – an aggressive schedule of retail politicking, which Trump has not done to date. And that seems to have really rattled Donald.

Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are neck and neck down the stretch to the first vote in the USA presidential nominating contest, while Hillary Clinton struggles to repel a surging Bernie Sanders, polls showed. “He’s begun now every speech for a week with extended attacks directed at me”.

Trump does have another potential advantage over Cruz: Less than three weeks before the caucuses, 73% of his voters said they’re “committed” to voting for him, the highest percentage of any Republican. “Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Hillary, in the national polling, beats Donald Trump badly”. Republican Caucus participants give Cruz better grades than Trump on most character issues.

Gamblers in the United Kingdom have bet more than £1 million ($1.4 million) on U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump losing his bid for the White House.

Trump’s confusion about the nuclear triad has been raised a few times since Hewitt, during a GOP debate, asked him what his priority would be in the nuclear triad. Rand Paul qualified for the undercard too, but has said he’ll boycott it in protest of being dropped from the primetime segment. Rubio tops Cruz and Trump on only the phrases “establishment candidate” and “typical politician”. “Cruz? Not so much”.

Ron Trombley of Hudson, who stood in the cold outside the Granite State Indoor Range, said the only gun he owns is a Japanese rifle from World War II, but that he liked what he heard from Cruz.