Posted on 11/22/2015 11:33:01 AM PST by iowamark
Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place. Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third.
While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready to be commander-in-chief, Cruz scores even better on this measure, boosted by support from very conservative and Tea Party Iowans who feel he is ready to assume the post. That's more than say so about Trump, Carson, Rubio and Jeb Bush.
Since last month, Ted Cruz has gained ground -- and Ben Carson has lost ground -- among some key voting groups in Iowa: evangelicals, Tea Party supporters, those who are very conservative and older voters. And while Trump still leads among some of these groups, it's Cruz who is ahead among the very conservative, and Trump leads Cruz by just two points among evangelical voters.
Cruz's move has come directly at the expense of Carson, as nearly one-quarter of his voters switched.
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Bump!
At this stage, I’d be surprised if Ted Cruz doesn’t win Iowa. He was all the endorsements that matter, the best ground game in Iowa By far, and is nicely positioned to strike in the polls. He timed it perfectly to start rising at just the right time.
Is that why he has won practically every straw poll at every convention he's actually spoken at?
The thing I worry about most is that Cruz will do really well, and the press will start with stories of him being ineligible to be President. At that point the GOPe will climb on board to torpedo his chances instead of fighting for him.
MSM might hope Rubio is the nominee. Rubio definitely is not qualified since both parents were non-citizens. And MSM will make a huge thing out of it.
Maybe if Trump was one of the usual run of the mill candidates we have seen. Of course Trump is not and he’s rewriting how to run a campaign. Actually he’s schooling them all.
And TPP, he gave Obama fast track on it and Iran. Can't now say the opposite. If he was really against it, he would have voted against it. He's a martyr and doesn't vote for things he doesn't believe in.
And illegal aliens? Cruz repeated said he wouldn't discuss that; in some comments said some for of legal status might be solution. That is amnesty.
Sorry, he owns all three of those.
I've seen you in these threads you keep spouting the same meme about these Cruz votes despite being corrected numerous amount of times. I'm not going to change your mind with these facts and you aren't going to change mine with your interpretation of Cruz's votes.
Darn, Trump missed those 1,100 people attending the FF.
He had a rally that day with 10,000 people attending and one the next day with 12,000 attending.
FF wasn’t even on the radar. I tried to find it in the news feeds and it didn’t show up.
Lots of evangelicals in those YUGE crowds of 10K - 12K, btw.
I agree. Trump/Cruz 2016!!!
“Cruise or trump. Iâll take either one.”
Good grief, then spell the man’s name right!! It’s CRUZ.
i spoke into the phone on that one!!! my cell phone should know i’m talking about Cruz!!!
my bad. Sorry :)
I wouldn’t mind taking a cruise though.
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