Posted on 11/12/2015 8:52:10 PM PST by Isara
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck among likely Republican presidential primary voters in Texas, according to a new poll.
Cruz and Trump each receive 27 percent support in the University of Texas/Texas Tribune survey released Thursday, followed by Ben Carson at 13 percent.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) follows at 9 percent, while Jeb Bush, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Carly Fiorina each take 4 percent.
Cruz also leads as the second-choice candidate for voters there with 19 percent, while Trump is the second choice for 15 percent. Carson is also the runner-up pick for 19 percent.
Bush tops the list of Republicans that voters would "definitely not support" for the GOP nomination at 25 percent, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) second at 22 percent.
Cruz and Rubio sparred for attention in the fourth GOP debate this week as both candidates rise toward Trump and Carson, who have been leading national polls.
The survey of 542 registered Texas voters was conducted Oct. 30 to Nov. 8 with a margin of error of 4.2 percent.
Typical Trump diversion. Your little graphic has no relation to Texas or Texas polls. Cristie and Trump have a lot in common...... Loud obnoxious Yankees who think they know what’s better for us than us Texans than we do. That dog don’t hunt around here.
The Trumpet Army here at FR are a delusional lot.
Squishy? He seems to be pretty adamant about it. Here are 4 different Ted Cruz Facebook page posts in the last 44 hours, out of 11 posts total:
There is NOTHING compassionate about a bunch of politicians saying Im so compassionate Im going to give away your job to people coming here illegally. (in response to Kasich's debate comment)
If Republicans nominate a candidate who has embraced amnesty, it means we give up that issue in 2016.
if Republicans join Democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose... the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande, or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press (another debate quote)
I dont know about you, but Im tired of being called anti-immigrant because I want people to come here legally and to enforce the law:
He wasn’t so adamant in 2013.
Not really...
Trump is a bluedog dem. Changed to repub when Pelosi and co, ran off all the dogs..
In 2013, Trump attacked Romney as too tough on immigration.
Trump is not the be all-super man, that you apparently believe.
He inserted a poison pill amendment into the gang of 8 bill to prove they were not interested in anything but amnesty. They failed the test and voted against it.
The poison pill was to secure the border first.
“Cruz is VERY solid on actually ‘’’’requiring laws to be enforced’’’’ - and that includes ‘’’ALL current immigration laws’’’’...... That would include enforcing the requirements for H-1b visas to ONLY be allowed where there aren’t qualified American citizens available to fill needed positions - and that those hires must be paid the going wage for that position....Cruz said that if an employer abuses the H1b visa program they will be ‘’’prohibited from using it forever’’’’. PLUS, Cruz would require that companies pay MORE for each H-1b they hire, with the purpose that money go in block grants to states to pay ‘’’for training American citizens’’’’ in the very fields that have shortages. ....Thus the hires would actually help end the need for the H-1b program while creating excellent careers for citizens “
They have been laid off, displaced, by this program and have been unable to find work in their field or have to settle for salaries much lower than they were making. They are ending up working temporary positions, having to move states away, one driving trucks.
I don’t know about other professions but just in my opinion H1-B is a big scam for companies to get cheap labor and no amount of nice words about retraining, enforcing the law, penaties for employers fixs people loosing their homes and jobs under this program helps.
I don’t see it as a program to fix, I see it as a program to get rid off.
Again it’s the ‘abuse’ of the system that’s the problem..and without stopping that it’ll continue....
I have no faith in more laws when we already have laws that are not being enforced.
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