Posted on 02/26/2016 4:01:18 AM PST by usafa92
Weeks of harsh attacks on his integrity and character have hurt Texas Sen. Ted Cruz among self-identified Republicans, conservatives and Christian voters, a new survey shows, providing an opening to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on the day of the last Republican debate before next week's all-important Super Tuesday contests.
The new Morning Consult survey shows Cruz's favorable ratings among Republican voters at 56 percent, down five points in just the last two weeks. Cruz's favorable ratings have fallen by six points among the most conservative voters, to 53 percent, and by eight points among Christian voters, to 38 percent.
The drop in Cruz's popularity comes as he surrenders his second-place standing in the GOP field to Rubio. The poll shows real estate tycoon Donald Trump continuing to lead the Republican field, with 42 percent of the vote, while Rubio places second, at 19 percent, and Cruz finishes third, at 14 percent.
Two weeks ago, Cruz led Rubio by seven points, 17 percent to 10 percent. In both polls, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Ohio Gov. John Kasich failed to reach double digits.
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Thanks. The poll that will make my day is Rubio and Cruz both in single digits.
Lots of fun watching Trump swat away the Ineligibles last night.
Cruz didn’t do himself any favors with the slimy Harvard lawyer/prosecutor act last night. Very sad.
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.
Agree. It just showed his propensity to go into debate mode where he is comfortable.
A President has to be much bigger and better than that.
Rubio and Cruz accomplished nothing last night except to damage themselves, just like they have accomplished nothing in the Senate.
As Trump put it, Cruz talked for one night, and then everything went back to normal.
As Cruz and Rubio yelled at Trump last night, I kept saying, well, why didn’t YOU do something about that—you are in the Senate!
Trump has exposed so many things this primary season.
He has disposed of Jeb Bush, shut up Hillary Clinton, made the Pope scurry behind the Vatican Wall, told off Vicente Fox and will dispatch the two Ineligibles on Tuesday.
General Patton in a well tailored suit and tie.
Cuban gage fight. High heels and screeching. Also CN lost control from the get go.
Cruz seems great until you get more familiar with him breeding ever more contempt. His mind is a steel trap though and he belongs on the SCOTUS. No leadership skills means no executive positions for him.
Cruz acted like he was back at Harvard law school in a mock trial class last night and he came off badly. Smug lawyers like that don’t play well with Texas juries, that’s for sure.
Great poll. Last night’s debate was hilarious. I have nothing at all against Hugh (and series) Hewitt but Trump’s zinger against him was so damn funny. The look on Hewitt’s face.
Trump’s ceiling is in the White House.
A good lawyer doesn't make charges that blow-back on him like - you fund corrupt politicians - well, yes, I funded you.
Cruz never even mentioned his position on Obamacare, he went into full attack mode on Trump...Pitiful...
Excellent advice.
Thank you. I have wondered why anyone would want him on the Supreme Court, he will sell out to the guy with the most money always.
It isn't the harsh attacks against Ted that have hurt him. It is his actions, augmented by his harsh attacks against others.
Ganging up on Trump and making sure we all know that he is not trusted because he is not a DC insider but knows what they are all up to from the inside plays into his own hands.
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