Cruz close second to Trump in Iowa polls

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson saw his support drop 10 points since October to just 18 percent.

“You have a two-tiered situation”, he says. Cruz was second with 73 percent, while Rubio followed with 70 percent. As the AP puts it, Cruz wants to cast himself, in contrast to Trump and Carson, as the “executable outsider”, after working for months to forge a friendly alliance in an effort to eventually capture Trump’s base of support.

Seventy-five percent of Republicans, 79 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents in poll by technology firm Fluent released Tuesday said they would show up to vote on election day 2016 if Trump were the GOP nominee, marking the highest voter turnout garnered by any presidential hopeful featured in the survey.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is in fourth place with 13% support – the only other candidate in double digits in Tuesday’s poll. “Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the 2008 caucus and former Sen”.

Today, Sen. Rand Paul is at 5 percent, with Carly Fiorina at 3 percent. No other candidate tops 2%. Bush’s rating – he’s seen favorably by 39% and unfavorably by 53% of likely Iowa Republican voters – is underwater. Only 15 percent of responders said terrorism and foreign policy would impact their choice, the poll found.

As Trump continues to dominate the GOP primary in virtually every poll, Cohen issued a warning to the Republican Party over trying to go after Trump.

Yet as TPM reported, there is no video footage of Americans celebrating the attacks, and none of the unconfirmed reports of such incidents come close to the scale Trump described.

Cohen also pointed to social media as backing up Trump, saying an immeasurable number of Trump’s “millions and millions of followers” on social media have said they recall seeing the same thing.

Support for U.S. Sen. By a margin of 83% to 9%, they say the United States and its allies are now losing to ISIS.

Cruz is favored by 23% of Iowa Republicans, right behind Trump at 25%.