Cruz in a virtual tie with Trump in Iowa

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Cruz’s 13-point rise in the last month mirrors the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker released Sunday, which showed Cruz at 21 percent behind Trump, who notched 30 percent, while Carson had 19 percent support.

Quinnipiac poll assistant director, Peter Brown, says campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is becoming a two-tiered contest: those candidates with no previous elected experience, and those who now hold political office.

Brown adds that “the other candidates will need miraculous comebacks to crack the top tier with slightly more than two months before the voting begins”. And on Monday his presidential opponent Ben Carson stepped into his own media kerfuffle when he claimed at a midday event that he also recalled seeing the footage of Americans celebrating only to walk that back later in the day and claim he was confused. Only 15 percent of responders said terrorism and foreign policy would impact their choice, the poll found. When asked about his recent claim that the Federal Bureau of Investigation can only monitor between 30 and 60 people at a time, Carson qualified the statement by saying that’s the number of people the Federal Bureau of Investigation “can follow 24/7, not just people on their watch list”. “Also Senator Cruz seemed to get the best grades out of the last televised debate, so that’s helpful”.

Trump who is well ahead in the polls has brushed off the attacks. “If they break that agreement with him, as they say ‘woe be on them, ‘” Mr. Cohen said.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump reportedly drew a crowd of 14,000 supporters in Columbus, Ohio, at the city’s convention center Monday. By a margin of 83% to 9%, they say the United States and its allies are now losing to ISIS.

(KWQC) – Ted Cruz has surged among Iowa’s likely Republican Caucus participants, polling to a virtual tie with Donald Trump.