As Cruz rises in presidential polls, Trump calls him “maniac”

Onetime presumed frontrunner Jeb Bush – son of one president and brother to another – has a measly six percent support, while all the other candidates have less than three percent support.

Which isn’t an unexpected statement, since obviously, Cruz is running against Carson and Trump-and no matter how nice he may be in public, he’s running to beat them.

That stand may not hurt Trump – and may even strengthen support among his loyalists – but it unlikely to help him broaden the support he is likely to need to win South Carolina’s first-in-the-South primary early next year. Trump asked the Des Moines crowd, drawing cheers and noting Cruz’s rise in Iowa polls. That’s important, given that regular churchgoers make up about half the Iowa caucus electorate.

“Trump leads across multiple categories of voters from a high of 35 percent among those who wish to create a database of Muslims in the United States to a low of 22 percent among evangelical Christians”, Winthrop Poll Director Dr. Scott Huffmon said. “With the ethanol, really, he’s got to come a long way, ’cause right now he’s for the oil”. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is crushing it in Iowa. Because that’s very anti-Iowa’.

The billionaire real estate baron appeared to question the conservative Texas senator’s faith and accused him of being in hock to oil donors. “I say to myself, ‘If Ted Cruz is against ethanol, how is he winning in Iowa?”

“I would label him as a conservative”, Vander Plaats said of Rubio, a Florida U.S. senator.

His jabs follow reports that Mr Cruz, who has been rising in opinion polls, criticised Mr Trump at a closed-door event.

The attack was meant to hit Cruz for his opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard, which is seen as a major economic boon for Iowa corn farmers. “It is like if you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours, because if one of them wins, they will take care of the other one”.

“I was against going into Iraq”, Trump said.

That is perhaps because Trump knows that a large part of his support base would also consider supporting Cruz if his campaign ever loses steam.

Cruz said: ‘What I will say is this: In the course of a presidential election, the voters are going to make a decision about every candidate.

Despite Cruz’s attempts to back-pedal today, calling Trump “terrific” in one tweet and distancing himself from the comments in another interview, it seems to have been all the invitation the property mogul needed to go on the attack.

“I would say that we would certainly have things in mind for Ted”, he said.

This is the second time Trump has polled second in a string of Iowa polls – the first coming in mid-October when respondents placed Carson as the Hawkeye State’s favorite. “The lion’s share of their supporters come to us”.