Trump, Cruz Top Poll, Terrorism Now Main Voter Concern

“This is a good poll for Ted Cruz”, said Fred Yang, a Democratic pollster who conducted the WSJ/NBC News survey along with GOP pollster Bill McInturff.

When: 8:30 p.m Tuesday.

Main debate: Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Texas Sen.

Cruz will face a choice: Return fire and be drawn into a mud fight or sidestep the attacks and risk looking weak. This is a historic leap, with no other candidate seeing such a rise in the past five of such presidential caucuses held in the state.

If Trump’s awful head-to-head poll numbers against Clinton continue, that could seriously hurt his chances when Republican voters start heading to the polls in February and March.

One poll, by Monmouth University, found Trump with a whopping 41 percent of Republicans saying they supported him – almost triple the number who supported second-place Ted Cruz. Florida senator Marco Rubio had 10 percent and former Florida governor Jeb Bush had 6 percent. Cruz follows not-too-far behind at 24%. You can’t walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars, and not be able to cajole and get along with people. “I think what’s happening is I think conservative voters like the energy and the sort of direct and blunt style that Trump has, but ultimately they come back and they say Cruz is more prepared to be President of the United States”. “Somebody taped that conversation”, Trump said about Cruz on “Fox News Sunday”.

Yang also said Cruz appears to be picking up any support that Carson has lost.

Cruz, for his part, maintained his stance of not making any criticism public, taking to Twitter to respond to Trump. “My preference would be for him to stay on his own course and not get sucked into other people’s efforts to take one or the other candidates down”.

Hillary Clinton would thump Donald Trump but would lose to Marco Rubio or Ben Carson in a projected 2016 USA presidential election, according to a survey published Monday by the NBC News network and the daily Wall Street Journal. The poll aimed to discover which Republican candidate is preferred by the Iowa community. That means Trump could draw heavy fire.

Two-thirds of Republican voters said they would be “enthusiastic” or “satisfied” if Trump is the nominee.