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In the new presidential poll result, the exuberant Republican candidate Donald Trump extends his lead, while the second spot is taken by Ben Carson, who is followed by Sen.
(KWQC) – Ted Cruz has surged among Iowa’s likely Republican Caucus participants, polling to a virtual tie with Donald Trump.
Trump over the weekend and through Monday repeatedly said that he saw on TV American Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on September 11, 2001, as the Twin Towers fell, a claim that fact-checking publications have called false.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Tuesday criticized front-runner Donald Trump’s comments about Black Lives Matter protesters and Muslim-Americans, accusing the billionaire of trying to “create a grievous kind of culture”.
Trump polled 25 percent in the Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, with Cruz moving into second place with 23 percent after receiving high marks for handling foreign policy. Carson had 28 percent in the last poll, but now has 18 percent.
The story did not suggest “thousands” were celebrating, as Trump has claimed, and a story the same day in The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, said the reports of such celebrations by Muslims proved unfounded.
The Carson campaign did not immediately respond to a request for related footage.
The survey also finds retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson sliding dramatically as Cruz rises in the Hawkeye State. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is looking more and more like a top-tier contender in Iowa.
“Worth remembering, however, is that winning Iowa is no guarantee of success elsewhere”, Brown added. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the 2008 caucus and former Sen. “You have a presidential candidate who is deliberately stoking fear and smearing a whole population of people”, said Jones, who formerly worked in the Obama administration. Rick Santorum won in 2012, “yet both were quickly gone from those nomination fights as the primary calendar moved to larger states”, he said. He far outpaced Trump, for example, when voters were asked who had the “better temperament to be president”, who was “most honest and trustworthy”, and who “cares most about people like you”.
Super PACs are reportedly stepping up their spending to oppose Trump, and Cohen and Trump have indicated they could consider that effort a nullification of Trump’s pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee and forgo an independent run if it’s not him. Trump told the crowd he predicted the threat of bin Laden in one of his books, published more than a year before the 9/11 attacks.