This is correct
Like Trump or not, he skipped Iowa because of the plants in the audience, and to let the attackers focus on Cruz, hoping to damage him among fence sitters.
Speaking of poison pills, Ted Cruz.
“.....One of the most important tasks of the next president is to undo the damage at the U.S. Department of Justice after the Obama/Holder/Lynch debacle. As J. Christian Adams put it on PJ Media, “Cruz alone has an understanding of both the corrosive and lawless policies of the last seven years as well as the complex task of restoring the rule of law.” Cruz, Adams wrote, “has an outsider’s zeal to reverse Obama’s lawlessness with the insider’s ability to overcome bureaucratic inertia.” Like Adams, I see Cruz as the outsider/insider combination necessary to deal with all the messes — including the intractable federal bureaucracy — facing the 45th President of the U.S.”.....
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_extraordinary_ted_cruz.html
Keeps Cruz securely locked in as my fallback choice. Because Rubio TALKED a #%$& of a good game Thursday night; but I don’t trust him.