Posted on 01/20/2016 11:47:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Mr. Trump's support [36 percent] was down a bit from 41 percent in a Monmouth poll released last month, while Mr. Cruz picked up 3 points of support since last month.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has a 19-point edge over his closest 2016 GOP rival, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, in a national poll on the Republican field released Wednesday.
Mr. Trump was at 36 percent in the poll from Monmouth University, followed by Mr. Cruz at 17 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 11 percent, and retired doctor Ben Carson at 8 percent. The survey was conducted from Jan. 15-18, after last week’s GOP debate in South Carolina....
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Please lose this Donald. America needs a real conservative- Ted Cruz!
Well I just got confirmation that Trump is needed. He just bashed the Oscar nonsense. The only one. He just made news on it and he was right. PC crap has to stop. Cruz was asked and said, “Oh the African Americans have a point. It is the second year they haven’t received a nominee”.....WTF Cruz!!!!!
By putting so much late into Iowa I think DT is making a big mistake. It is not the polls that will win Iowa, it is the organization getting out their voters. And in that Cruz has Trump far outstripped. He might bring out a brig crowd and trot Sarah, but he Ted has invested in a large local organization. I believe that Ted will let a little bit of the air out of Trump caucus night. Then, there’s no telling what kind of trash that DT will talk! Go TED!
You just proved I was right.
Sorry Joe. I don’t have the time to explain to you why SMART business men must play both sides of the corrupt Political establishment.
You mean corrupt businessmen like Trump regularly bribe Democratic Party officials in New York and get into bed with the mafia so they can skirt laid down procedures and rules for corrupt self interest?
I know how that works. I live in New York.
Say, tell me, how many top Democratic Party officials from New York( including Sheldon Silver) have been jailed recently for similar corrupt deals?
Trump knows how to get it done.
Cruz has slipped 6 points in this biased poll. Not good news for Cruz. Trump is looking very good in Iowa.
Bless you. Been wondering what was going on and hadn’t seen any recent polls.
Did he endorse the Huckster and Santorum?
Trump is dead to me after showing his true colors and backing ethanol subsidies.
I understand and for the most part, agree. The difference that I see, the ONLY redeeming quality since he is NOT a conservative, is that Trump is not in the GOPe inner circle.
No difference between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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That’s a lie.
You made a mistake. It was Trump that said that and not Cruz!
Trump is going to ask Scott Walker to be his VP and Walker will accept.
That's the way to read it with a >10% national lead. And this may be the one time RCP's 'averaging' at +16% is worth a damn, if forecasting the long trend.
Particularly when you look at who is going to get out after Super Tuesday (March 1, which happens to be about the same time it's no longer worth chasing downstream GOP primary ballot space), Sir Lard Huckabee & Santorum could give Cruz a small but noticeable +/-2 bump BUT Fiorina, Paul, Fatty Arbuckle, and Kasich abandoned bandwagoners would trend heavily Trump and consolidate his overall to the magic +50% while maintaining +/-20 on whoever takes 2nd at that point.
The x-factor is if Rubio or Bush suddenly abandons their campaign and pointedly throws support to the other one. Rubio is not just Bush's pet project but even moreso Romney's. And these GOPe/Globali$ts won't go quietly. If Bush's money people and Romney's money people told Bush to get out with a sharp lateral pass to Rubio, that fight for 2nd place behind Trump would be the more intriguing thing about the second half of the primary game.
This is still very wide open.
I'm a Trump supporter but I will happily support Cruz in the general if he beats Trump fair and square.
All the anti-Trump posting going on here only reinforces my decision to support Trump and I think it reflects poorly on Cruz. Though as I stated, I will support Cruz should he get the nomination in spite of the incivility many of his supporters exhibit here.
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