Posted on 03/28/2016 8:51:32 AM PDT by conservativejoy
A suite of new polls suggest that Ted Cruz may be gaining rapidly on Donald Trump in several key upcoming primary contests.
In Wisconsin, an Emerson poll conducted March 20-22 has Cruz leading Trump by 1%, 36% to 35%. A separate poll taken March 19-20 by the Washington Free Beacon shows Cruz with a 5% lead over Trump, 36% to 31%. Both are significant improvements for Cruz compared to previous polling data from late February, which showed him trailing Trump by 11%.
In California, a Los Angeles Times poll from March 16-23 puts Cruz now in a statistical tie (35% vs. 36%) with Trump, up from trailing Trump by between 5% to 16% in early/mid-March.
While Trump still leads in Pennsylvania, his margin has shrunk dramatically in recent weeks. A Franklin & Marshall poll conducted March 14-20 shows Trump with just a 3% lead over John Kasich (33% to 30%) and a 13% lead over Cruz. Back at the start of the month, Trump held a 19% lead over Cruz and a 26% lead over Kasich.
Polling data expected out this upcoming week should begin to show the impacts of the respective foreign policy choices the candidates are espousing.
In recent interviews with the Washington Post and the New York Times, Trump has articulated what might be considered a more isolationist/libertarian foreign policy that would involve possible large cuts in defense spending, a reduced involvement in geopolitical events, and allowing – potentially even encouraging – nations such as South Korea and Japan to obtain their own nuclear weapons deterrence as a replacement for the U.S. nuclear umbrella.
In contrast, Cruz's choice of Frank Gaffney and other members of the Center for Security Policy as his key foreign policy team paints a much more traditionally conservative view..
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Why are we posting polls from states that already voted?
Maine being a great example. No polls for months, and boxes full with ballots sent to a central location, and not counted in the precinct, as they had been forever..
Cruz is surging!!!!!
Surging like a Cuban Mistress Missile!!!
Haven’t you been reading the news, listening to the news.
It’s been all over the world and is the top conversation just about every time politics is discussed.
So, to think that won’t affect voters is to deny what is actually taking place in the real world.
we’ve seen the same headlines just before the SC primary, the NV caucus, Cruz was supposed to pull an upset victory in AZ just last week, what happened to all those headlines, down the Memory Hole.
It was in response to Comment #5.
I think it’s actually gonna benefit Cruz - sympathy factor. There is no evidence any of this smear is true. As of now there is nothing to the story other than the trash Trump followers keep posting over and over. People are going to believe this trashy smear came from Trump since he is a well known gutter fighter. If none of this pans out, Cruz benefits tremendously.
Let’s see if the polls show a drop this week.
The scandal story has been everyplace.
Without a doubt, the talk I’ve heard all weekend from lots of Christian conservative types was hesitation about Cruz. People were really wondering what was going on.
I don’t think it GAINS him anything, but it hurts him as high as 20%.
And THAT... was the basis for the entire smear... Alinsky would be so proud.
That’s not been what I’ve been hearing this weekend. I don’t think it helps him at all.
Say the voices in your head. The rest of us can't hear them.
Got it.
He's at least as sympathetic a character as Uriah Heep.
I agree that that was one of the objectives of that article. My personal opinion since I heard about it is that it’s from the GOP-E, who doesn’t want Cruz to survive the convention, but they do want him to draw delegates away from Trump. They have the biggest dog in this hunt. Since it had been with the Rubio Camp for weeks, and Kirsten Powers is saying she’d heard it a while back, then I am MORE sure that it’s GOP-E and not Trump.
Donny would get schlonged by Hillary in November. Therefore a vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary.
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Good try Cruz operative, but here are the undeniable facts.
Trump v Cruz head-to-head actual primary election results for the 3 purple states which are must wins,
|——————Trump v Cruz -——— Trump v Cruz ———— Margin -——|
Ohio ............. 700,464 - 259,694 ... 35.87% - 13.30% ..... +440,770 Trump
Florida ........ 1,079,741 - 404,804 ... 45.72% - 17.14% ..... +647,937 Trump
Virginia ......... 355,961 - 173,191 ... 34.73% - 16.90% ..... +182720 Trump
The facts say, Cruz can’t win FL,OH, or VA. He has to win all of them; therefore a vote for Cruz is a vote for Hillary.
Haven’t you been reading the news, listening to the news.
It’s been all over the world and is the top conversation just about every time politics is discussed.
So, to think that won’t affect voters is to deny what is actually taking place in the real world.
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Sad but true. No evidence to support the story, no eyewitness accounts, in short, nothing but innuendo.
There doesn’t have to be a there there, if enough people continue to talk about it.
The state of the American electorate. Let me wipe that tear of pride from my eye.
I wouldn’t take the other side of that bet.
Enjoy the upcoming show. While you wait for discovery to unfold, think back on John Edwards.
It’s either Trump or I vote Independent. I’m fed up with the GOP-e party corruption.
I’ve been through a number of these campaigns in my lifetime, and the polling pre-convention has seldom been reflected in the polling in the last month of the campaign.
The whole point of the campaign is to put forward your best and to put forward your opponent’s worst.
thanks for the sanity
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