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Posted on 04/01/2015 6:20:38 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped to third place in the prospective Republican presidential field since making his bid official last week, according to a new poll.
The survey, released Wednesday by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, found Cruz surging from 5% support last month to 16% support from Republican primary voters this month.
He now trails only Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who leads the pack with 20% support, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who takes 17%. Cruz was in sixth place in last month's poll.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul both take 10% support, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tie with 6% each, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie takes 4% and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has 3% support.
That's a steep drop for Carson, who was polling at 18% support last month, and a drop for Huckabee from 10% last month.
Cruz became the first Republican to enter the presidential race last week, and has been touring early primary states since, with events in New Hampshire over the weekend and a jaunt through Iowa planned for Wednesday and Thursday.
The PPP survey indicates his announcement boosted his profile with conservatives and voters nationwide. Cruz tripled his support among those who identified in as "very conservative" in the poll, up from 11% last month to 33% this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbt.com ...
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CRUZ or LOSE!Jebbie at 17 percent?When did that happen?
By next month or earlier, Cruz will be in the lead.
Cruz Missile.
There is no reason to support Huckaphoney if you do so from a religious standpoint, Cruz is every bit as religious, more so.
There is no reason to support Paul from a Conservative standpoint as Cruz is significantly more financially conservative than Paul.
I am very much liking Cruz. He walks it like he talks it!
There's trouble in Rove City...
When Ted announced, one of the whines going around was that he had no chance based on his polling at 3% or some such. I said, now that he has announced his candidacy and is hitting the campaign trail, those poll numbers will rise. Gratifying to know he’s moving up.
Cruz will utterly destroy Jebbie in any fairly moderated primary debate.
And he just put the others in “check”.
“Cruz’s comments on the Indiana law and his denouncement of same-sex marriage was well-received by the audience, which interrupted him with applause when he spoke about religious freedom.”
Rove is in a closet somewhere furiously writing dirty words on his little whiteboard.
Good news but I would like to see who is the second choice of the people polled.
For example, are the people supporting Walker second choice Jeb or Ted?
Most people end up supporting their second choice.
I would imagine that most people, that support Walker would have Cruz as their second choice, not Jeb Bush
Because of that I think there is a very good chance that the nomination will come down to one of either Walker or Cruz.
Just an aside, I do not think Jeb Bush could win a general election. There are too many people that still suffer from BDS and that is not limited to just his brother George.
I also think that Sarah Palin is to damaged politically to win an election. That is not a slam at her personally but just that she has been too thoroughly slimed by the media.
Both Cruz and Walker are politically savvy enough to avoid the verbal traps set for them by the 5th column media. Both have shown they can stand up to peer pressure bullying of the left.
Of the two I think Cruz is the better candidate.
I remember your recent post. You have earned the right to gloat : )
True, but Jeb is just raising money to hand over to a supposedly viable, globalist, POS #2.
The only “full spectrum,” complete, Reaganite conservative in the mix. The rest are poseurs, including Walker, Rubio, and Carson. Paul and Trump are bad jokes. Huckabee and Santorum are old news phonys. Bush, Christie, Fiorina, and Kasich are RINOs. Pence just shot himself in the foot.
I don’t even think he needs a “fair” debate. I’ve seen how he handles unfriendly media and they just can’t seem to corner him.
In their dreams and heavily weighted/sauced poll.
Agreed. He certainly made Candy Crowley look like an ass in a previous interview. Not that it takes much to make Candy Crowley look like an ass.
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