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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It’s nice that Ted might win his “home” state (ignoring Calgary for now), but too bad he is not near 50% needed for winner take all. If Ted wins less than 50% it’s over for him. :(
A poll? Since when is a poll actually news?
The dumbing down of America: Social commentary is now taken as factual news.
Well, we will find out on Tuesday night.
Your comment makes sense.
Which makes me wonder why Cruz isn’t campaigning much in the other ST states?
Cruz ahead as it should be. Ignoring the insults from the Trump supporters who immediately descended on this thread.
“Trumnutters”
Ooooh, a new pejorative name!
Aren’t you the clever fellow?
Yep. And Trump’s going to win about as many as Cruz will in Texas, and Ted will lose everywhere else on Super Tuesday. Ted’s done. Enjoy the Pyrrhic victory if there is one. Ted was at what, 12% in Florida. It’s over.
Well, in a way, it is news, because it shows ted ahead!
If he loses his own state, he is toast.
No, it shows a poll, and polls are not reality. If polls were reality then why hold elections.
Because he’s barely winning Texas and behind in all the others Cruz is toast
How many will still like him when they find out he’s not eligible to be their senator, much less the president.
Some Texans say the Cruz that ran for the Senate is not the Cruz seen on the presidential circuit. Trusting Texans spent time and money on him.....making calls on Cruz/s behalf for the votes that helped him win his Senate office.
Nowadays, these onetime Cruz supporters are airing their gripes----many are p!ssed at Cruz for not disclosing that as a Senate candidate, he was still a Canadian citizen.
It/s not helping Cruz to be called liar at his public appearances. The Carson fiasco still reverberates followed by the Bible video debacle.
Cruz/s political blunders pile up ... one disaster after another. But there are similarities: Cruz is looking more and more like the late unlamented prez candidate, ex-Texas Gov Rick Perry---two stealth candidates trusting Texans hardly knew.
At first, Cruz (like Perry) looked good....prez material, even. Then candidate Cruz (like Perry) began admitting things that trusting Texans knew nothing about.
Gov Perry shocked his constituents when he admitted in a presidential debate that he was using trusting Texans tax dollars to give illegals in-state tuition...and that they were heartless b/c they did not like this use of tax dollars. (Perry also installed the country's first Sharia Court in Texas....active to this day).
Cruz heaped on the surprises:
<><> I didn't know I was a Canadian citizen when I ran for the Senate until the media exposed it.
<><> I told trusting Texas voters wifey and I were liquidating family assets so I could get into the Senate.
<><> I didn/t know I was supposed to tell the FEC I borrowed over a million from my Wall Street margin accounts to fund my campaign.
<><> I told Mark Levin the borrowed funds were used for campaign ads....but I didn/t report this as required.
<><> And so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
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BACKSTORY In Texas, Cruz/s Senate election fairy tale has become legendary......portraying himself to trusting Texans as a scrappy populist putting everything on the line to overcome a wealthy establishment opponent.
He was whining in the media, telling trusting Texans that he, and his faithful little wife (a $700,000 globalist lawyer employed by G/S), were forced to liquidate their entire family savings (of slightly more than $1 million) to fuel a come-from-behind win in the Republican primary.
NOW TRUSTING TEXANS LEARN Cruz did not liquidate family assets.....he got his hands on over a million dollars from his hefty margin accounts at G/S and Citibank......and did not disclose this on FEC reports (to keep it a secret from trusting Texans).
Cruz did not disclose loans on FEC reports (required by law) b/c Texans would have discovered he was not the aw-shucks rube he pretended to be. He continued the rube act in order to milk votes from trusting Texans.
At the same time, he also did not disclose he was a Canadian citizen......the Harvard-educated lawyer w/ two Ivy League degrees said he didn't know.
When the Dallas Morning News published Cruz/s Canadian birth certificate, Cruz put trusting Texans through the charade of renouncing his Canadian citizenship.....even though Canada did not recognize dual citizenship at the time of his birth.
yeah, but this poll shows ted ahead, so it is news, because all the other polls show him losing badly.
If it were like every other poll, showing cruz losing, then of course it would not be news, because everybody knows that.
That is true, but to get them all, you have to win 50+1 of the vote. If no one gets 50+1, they are proportional. This poll was taken before Cruz’s poor showing in NV, so, even if Cruz wins in his home state, it will be a lot closer than this poll shows, and he’ll end up getting a handful more delegates than Trump.
Cruz may very well win Texas, and it will do him no good at all....
I have no idea.
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