Two new Iowa polls showed wildly different results for Donald Trump

“And while many rivals in the race, including Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, were elected in the Tea Party wave, no lawmaker has better internalized the Republican Party’s mood under President Obama, placing conservative ideological purity above all else”.

Based on the latest CNN/ORC poll conducted from November 27 until Dec. 1 and released on Friday, Dec. 4, the real estate mogul earned the support of 36 percent of Republican voters, making it his widest lead and his greatest support ever since he first gave his announcement for candidacy, according to ABC News. In hypothetical head-to-heads, Clinton leads Trump by 4 percentage points, Cruz by 2 and Ben Carson by 1.

“He is organizing in the early states, leads in a lot of them by quite a large margin – except for Iowa where he is tied with (Ted) Cruz – but if he pulls it off, he will gain momentum that will be very tough to stop”. As he routinely does, Cruz chastised the media for egging on a fight with Trump, who the day prior said he would ban all Muslims from entering the US given the surging threat from Islamic terrorism.

Cruz won the endorsement of Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, last month. Carson comes in second at 13%, Rubio third at 11% and Trump fourth at 10%. Marco Rubio (R-Florida). It said the discrepancy could have been due to the different “screen” CNN incorporated in choosing which voters were likely to participate in Iowa’s caucuses. “I now believe Cruz is the most likely nominee”, said Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak.

In the Republican contest, Cruz and Rubio, now at 17% and 16%, have surged from the single-digit support they had in the fall.

It also said that Cruz and Trump had both gained ground since then.

On the question of an independent Trump candidacy, 18 percent said they would not back the current GOP front-runner, while 11 percent were undecided. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, on the other hand, has fallen in the poll’s estimation. Ted Cruz, of all these Republicans, winning Iowa? Graham criticized Cruz for not outright condemning Trump’s comments, merely saying Trump’s policy was not his own.

Trump – a NY businessman who can’t remember ever asking God for forgiveness for anything – was never a natural fit for these voters.

Evangelical voters, who make up a strong majority of Iowa caucus-goers, have moved behind Cruz, who now has a two-to-one lead over Carson among this influential block.

The margin of error was plus or minus 5 percent with 363 Democrat voters and 357 Republican voters. However, according to Trump’s new Texas campaign director Corbin Casteel, the big prize for Trump is winning the Lone Star State.