As Cruz rises in US presidential polls, Trump calls him ‘maniac’

For now, Trump has 23 percent from those who consider themselves Republican establishment voters, followed by Cruz at 22 percent. Sen.

Trump called for the temporary ban earlier this week after a Muslim husband and wife killed 14 people in a shooting rampage in California that has been classified as a terrorist act. The announcement came just one day after President Obama addressed Americans from the Oval Office and urged them to reject prejudice and discrimination. That’s precisely how he likes it. Ever the narcissist, even his bigotry is a path to self-glorification.

Since Friday, Trump has taken aim at Cruz for opposing ethanol subsidies and alienating his colleagues in the Senate. Nurtured by the George W. Bush network in Texas, he served as solicitor general before winning an upset bid in the 2012 Republican U.S. Senate primary.

Take my home state of North Carolina, for example. On the full sample, it has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points, although it is higher for subgroups. Seventy-two percent of the GOP in that state believe, like Trump’s closest rival, Ben Carson, that a Muslim should never be allowed to serve as president; the same percentage also agree with Trump’s claim that Obama is waging a war against Christianity.

“Marco’s numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire are improving, but the fact he’s been picked up [for endorsement] by…Paul Singer kind of shows he’s the boy-toy of the billionaires and the next establishment candidate”, Stone said. It’s the opposite. I want to make our country safe. He’ll never get anything done and that is the problem with Ted’. Donald Trump is still the Republican front-runner. Sen.

Carson polled fourth in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll at 11 percent, and third in Iowa at 13 percent in the Des Moines Register poll.

“There is somebody called Donald Trump running in your presidential campaign and he again spoke this morning about the United Kingdom, saying that we were busy disguising a massive Muslim problem”, Sir Peter Westmacott said.

“If you talk to my peers around town, collectively it’s an appreciation the guy is smart as hell”, explained a senior Washington Republican who is backing another candidate. “He’s motivated for some reason, but he’s not motivated to win the presidency”.

Voters are telling me that he really saying what everybody else is feeling, they support him and agreed with his proposal to bar Muslims. “Just wait and see”. I’m doing the right thing. That difference widens when only those Republicans who say they will definitely attend the caucus are considered, 32 percent to 25 percent. The biggest obstacle facing American Muslims isn’t the opportunism of election season rhetoric, however nasty it may be. In October, Carson was in first place with 28 percent.

Shortly after Trump’s campaign released the controversial statement, the crowd at a rally in SC pulsated with enthusiasm.

“It’s a violent blood cult. OK?” They all know each other.

That cesspool of toxic worldviews is the illness.

Option 2 would be to draft a candidate not already in the race and is acceptable to Trump supporters and to the GOP ruling class. The person who best fits this bill is 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

The rare detente between two GOP presidential candidates competing for conservative voters appears to be strained, if not over.