If the election finishes like this, Cruz will be well-positioned to claim that he is the only candidate who can beat Trump, and he can consolidate the anti-Trump vote.
This could explain the Trump campaign's decision to play nice, but it may be too little, too late.
So Cruz is the establishment candidate? Sounds right
Hmmmm. Maybe Rubio is more alive than dead.
I’m a bit surprised at his 20%. But if so he might turn out to be the David to slay the Bush Goliath for good. Assuming that 20& to 10% margin holds.
Trump using the p word in public was a huge mistake.
His campaign realizes it but the damage is done.
What a crude man.
Can you imagine if Obama uses the p word in a rally, he would be killed on this site.
When the cult leader does it, the cultists make excuses.
Cruz will take full advantage, I don’t think SC voters will support a low life when a real conservative is on the ballot.
A Bill Kristol friend of a friend poll... Ya ok.
Not surprised it’s close. They like conservative candidates in SC.
Kristol, a man of little integrity, vouches for the integrity of his unnamed source. No thanks, I’ll wait.
I do expect it to be very close in SC.
The Mystery Poll gets posted once again.
Yeah... what is it with the absolute lack of polling from South Carolina? I thought for sure that this morning, on the third day since New Hampshire, I’d find news of public polls.
“This could explain the Trump campaign’s decision to play nice, but it may be too little, too late. “
LOL!!!
The desperate plan of the Cruz camp that we will win because “evangelicals” will vote for Cruz like blacks will vote for Hillary, because he does a good Jimmy Swaggart act in a church, and Evangelicals will reflexively vote for anything like that.
Now you have to tout a poll done by who the heck knows. Not because it reflects reality, because it good propaganda to post on FR.
But it “sounds about right”.
So now the press has gone from reporting polls, which are iffy enough, to reporting unattributed rumors of polls?
The Weakly Standard, the place to go for all your polling needs.
Bill Kristol, Rich Lowery, two Trump haters. Nothing beats honest objectivity.
You would think that they could wait a few hours for a “public” poll.
got it exactly backwards agin. Losing campaigns go negative. "Going Negative" is the "Hail Mary" play of politics. When you are losing you go negative as the last hope in turning the situation around.
Source is Bill Kristol, the chipmunk cheeked cheapjack, for what he’s worth.
Do you have any idea how many hang ups these pollsters are getting? I’m getting 5 to 10 calls per day. The phone tubes, I answer...”Hello, we are taking a survey...” [CLICK]. I prefer the old phones you could SLAM DOWN whe you hung up. I can’t wait till this damned primary us over.
Maybe Yogi's right....It's deja vu all over again
If this is true, and the very deceptive Cruz eminent domain ads are hurting Trump, Cruz could take SC and seize the momentum very quickly.