Poll Shows Cruz Leading In Iowa Republican Caucuses

Ted Cruz of Texas at 24 percent. Sen.

“He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country”, Trump said during a telephone interview Friday on MSNBC. Additionally, Trump’s lead in the Granite State with no real challenger rising up to meet him, continues a trend that goes all the way back to late July when Trump first passed Jeb Bush to become the front-runner in the Granite State.

A CBS News released Sunday, poll said Cruz had the support of 40 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers, while Donald Trump was at 31 percent.

Of eight people interviewed at a Trump rally in Waterloo in early October, all gave the Trump campaign their emails. But many organization leaders have decided in recent days to line up behind Cruz because they consider him the best-funded and most electable social conservative in the race, according to several participants in the discussions. Fifty-three percent of voters overall said they don’t think he has a good chance of winning in the general election next November.

Holding his fourth and final town hall in New Hampshire on Saturday, Bush spelled out his position favoring legal status for undocumented immigrants after they pay a fine and meet a wide array of criteria. When you boil it down, Cruz’s best defense is that when he proposed his amendment, he lied to immigration-reform advocates about his motives – all for the sake of politics.

The Battleground Tracker online poll shows Trumps enjoys a 15-point advantage over his nearest rival, Ted Cruz, by a margin of 38 to 23 percent. Lindsay Graham of SC.

What the survey ultimately indicates is that Trump’s support might, if anything, be slightly underrepresented in the polls we see make headlines.

“I think Ted Cruz does not want to be on the opposite side of a lot of those things because he knows, emotionally, it’s where a lot of Republican primary voters are at”. Keep in mind that if Trump does not get an outright majority of the delegates (the magic 32% of the vote I keep talking about), he is unlikely to be the nominee, even if he has the most delegates.

Cruz further clarified that his amendments to Rubio’s bill worked like what Van Susteren called, a “poison pill” effectively killing Rubio’s bill that would have created amnesty and a path to citizenship for America’s illegal immigrants. If he loses Iowa, it’s trouble, and if he loses SC, it’s big, big trouble.

Michael Barone, senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), where this article first appeared, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

Even if one disagrees with the substance of his statements, it’s hard to not appreciate his skill at verbally sparring with his opponents, parrying even the most pointed assault easily.

You combine those things, and it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear – some of it justified, but just misdirected. “If you’re going to attack someone on a policy issue, you need to be clear where you stand on the issue, and where you stood in the past”.

In Beck’s opinion, if voters had perceived that Cruz had a weak immigration record, it could have stunted his ascendancy.