Posted on 02/25/2016 9:54:32 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is leading 2016 GOP presidential rival Donald Trump by 15 points in the senator's home state, according to a poll released Thursday just days ahead of Super Tuesday.
Mr. Cruz was at 38 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in Texas, with Mr. Trump at 23 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 21 percent, according to the survey from Monmouth University conducted from Monday to Wednesday.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was at 6 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich was at 5 percent.
"Cruz looks to be well-positioned in Texas.The challenge for him is that a lot of other states are also on the slate for Super Tuesday," said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmout University Polling Institute.
Texas is one of 11 states where voters will head to the polls Tuesday to make their selections for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, and its 155 delegates up for grabs is by far the most of any state.
Other recent polls on the state have ranged from a tie between Mr. Cruz and Mr. Trump to a 15-point edge for Mr. Cruz, who is trying to demonstrate that he is the only candidate in the race who can take down the billionaire businessman.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a better than 2-to-1 advantage over Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, 64 percent to 30 percent.
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HaHa!
Good news.
Hahahaha. You are without question the most pathetic poster on this board. Reduced to shilling for a Cruz victory in his home state.
God Bless Texas.
One poll out of Houston,,RCP paints a different picture when considering all the polling coming out of Texas.
Keep dreaming, nothing wrong with it.
In before the Trumnutters decend and denouce the poll as bogus heresy!
Too funny especially sense it's not a Winner take all like Florida
Trump will now go on Twitter and threaten to sue Monmouth University.
Too late.
If this keeps up the names Trump has been calling Cruz will seem tame compared to what he comes up with next.
Murderer?
Child molester?
Wife beater?
First let me say...I fully expect Trump to win in TX. But to see Cruz supporters cheer the possibility of his winning with 38% and to call that a trouncing is just pathetic. It's his home state. He represents TX in the US Senate. W won the TX primary in 2000 with 88% of the vote!!! And you claim to be trouncing Trump with a measly 38%. As I said, pathetic.
Duncan Hunter on endorsing Trump; “He hasn’t spoken to Trump and said he knows Trump doesn’t need his endorsement: “That’s another reason I like him”, he said.”
“Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well worth repeating!
I imagine that Texans had formed their opinions of Cruz independently of any messaging by the media, the Trump campaign or the Cruz campaign, for that matter. He’s their senator, after all. They’re either happy with him, or they’re not.
When I checked the Cruz campaign schedule, it appeared almost all his events between now and Tuesday are in Texas. What does that say for the other 12 states?
I wonder if his internal polls don’t agree with the one cited in this thread?
Texas has more delegates up for grabs than Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada combined.
How are delegates portioned in Texas?
This poll was taken before Cruz’s crushing defeat in Nevada. I’ll bet that a poll taken after the Nevada defeat will show a significant decline in his numbers, and an equally significant increase in Trump’s numbers. Trump may not win in TX, but Cruz won’t get the 50+1 he needs to win all the delegates. It will be so close that Cruz will probably only get a new more delegates than Trump gets.
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