Surprise: Trump falls behind Cruz in national NBC/WSJ poll

Cruz led businessman Donald Trump, who has led every national poll since November and all but four since June, 28 percent to 26 percent among likely Republican primary voters in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

And Trump supporters are die-hard in South Carolina: The pollster asked voters if they might change their minds about their preferred candidates, but among those who say they support Trump, 77 percent tell PPP they will definitely vote for him.

– Seven in 10 Republican primary voters want a candidate who will shake up the system, and their top choice for the nomination is Donald Trump.

The latest poll from Mitchell/FOX 2 Detroit shows Donald Trump is maintaining a sizable lead over other Republican hopefuls but Ohio Governor John Kasich is gaining some ground.

Ted Cruz, victor of the Iowa caucuses, led the Republican presidential field for the first time in a poll conducted after the last debate.

The CBS News poll, published Thursday morning, showed Trump polling at 35 percent, with Cruz at 18 percent, Florida Sen.

The poll is consistent with others released this week that have put Trump ahead by double digits in the state, with Cruz and Rubio in a close race for second. Ted Cruz leads Hillary Clinton 46%-43%.

John Kasich says he’s not staying in SC on Saturday night to await results of the state’s Republican presidential primary.

“We do need to get the field down to Trump, Cruz and somebody”, said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee heavyweight from Mississippi.

At Saturday’s debate, Cruz went on to discuss the implications of Trump’s presidency. Although 11% are undecided, 42% have supported Sanders while 44% are supporting Clinton. He sparred most memorably with Bush about former President George W. Bush’s two terms in office, calling the war in Iraq a “big, fat mistake” and reminding the audience that the World Trade Center towers “came down during your brother’s reign”.

Also, what was that about 31 percent supporting a ban on homosexuals entering the country? In January, Trump led Cruz by 13 points. What a tangled web we weave when first we… poll. As per the average of all major polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.com, Clinton has an advantage of almost 14 per cent against Sanders. The margin of sampling error for the latter group, from which the above figures were drawn, is plus or minus 5 percentage points.