Cruz attacks Sanders, Rubio in New Hampshire

Cruz and Trump are now leading the polls in Iowa, with Cruz polling at 25 percent and Trump polling at 22 percent, according to the Des Moines Register.

If there is a Republican candidate who will replace Trump and knock him from his lofty tower, now would be the time to see that rise. Roughly 33 percent of the voters polled said they’d vote for Trump; 23 percent said Cruz.

Cruz also offered a new argument in his attempt to paint GOP front-runner Donald Trump as an inauthentic conservative, claiming that he is inheriting the support of disenchanted Marco Rubio supporters.

Cruz benefits from the fight for New Hampshire’s large bloc of establishment-friendly voters between Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich. Rand Paul of Kentucky came in with two percent, while former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Sen. Clinton beats Cruz, 47 percent to 42 percent. Neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s third-place position in a November poll dropped to fifth, down from 14.5 percent to 3.3 percent in the latest poll. According to a poll released by Monmouth University on January 20, Trump has taken a dip in the polls, but he has a more than 2-to-1 advantage over his next-closest opponent, Cruz, The Hill reported. Mike Huckabee has 3, and Rick Santorum had none among respondents Sunday night.

Conservatives, meanwhile, are furious at the effort, noting that Trump has called himself both a Democrat and independent in the past, and Cruz deserves party loyalty despite issues differences.

The former Florida governor said he respects Palin – particularly her opposition to abortion and support for the disabled – in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room”.

The rest of the field falls below the poll’s 4.8% margin of error for support.

The automated survey of 838 likely primary voters was conducted via phone and mobile device Sunday for the Times-Union and FOX13 in Tampa and FOX 35 in Orlando. The real estate mogul-turned-candidate had often defended his donations to Democrats, his praise for Hillary Clinton, and his other deviations from Republican orthodoxy by saying he was a businessman who only recently became a politician.