Posted on 03/13/2016 11:35:54 AM PDT by Steelfish
Ted Cruz Eats Into Donald Trump’s National Lead
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times - Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is retaining his edge in the 2016 GOP race, but his advantage has dropped from 16 points over Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to 9 points in a new national poll.
Mr. Trump had the support of 34 percent of registered Republicans and GOP-leaning independents in the Washington Post-ABC News poll out Tuesday, followed by Mr. Cruz at 25 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 18 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 13 percent.
Mr. Trump also lost a head-to-head match-up to Mr. Cruz by 13 points, 54 percent to 41 percent, and trailed Mr. Rubio by 6 points, 51 percent to 45 percent.
Fifty-one percent said they would be satisfied with Mr. Trump as the GOP nominee, compared to 65 percent who said the same of Mr. Cruz, 62 percent for Mr. Rubio, and 56 percent for Mr. Kasich.
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“Cruz won’t win a state in 2 days. Bye Cruz.”
B..B…BBBBut he got 1/3 of available Wyoming delegates.
He’s surging! Surging I tell you!
That is ridiculous. Trump has been compared to Hitler from day one. And the BLM has been rioting and hitting old ladies in the face for months now. How can you blame Trump for something that already existed?
Correct: make that 200 delegates behind. Cruz would lose another hundred and Trump would gain those hundred.
Oh for pity sake. I watch all of his rallies. He’s plain spoken and tells it like it is. Says what needs to be done and isn’t a slimy lawyer/politician.
If he did half as much as he plans to do, your country might stand a chance. He hasn’t even started on Hitlery yet - she wouldn’t stand a chance, regardless of polls.
All you Trumpaholics are about to be taught a lesson in politics that you will never forget, and in the process you might develop just a smidgin of humility.
Nah...you won’t learn a thing. You are all immune to learning.
Another correction to the correction LoL: If Cruooz would have lost his state early to Trump that is in same proportions. ;^)
It’s the apocalypse, GPH and I are on the same page.
Florida is out of reach for Cruz. But not so Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.
Nevertheless this round is not so important for gaining delegates, although Cruz will get his share or more. It is important for forcing Rubio out when he can’t do better than third in his home state.
Kasich is already out. He goes nowhere after Ohio except as a pro-Trump spoiler. That’s a role I don’t think he wants to play, so I think he goes to the sidelines also.
Then Cruz can get down to the business of shutting up Trumps tiny pie-hole.
As we all know, the lamestream media always has our best interest at heart when they present such groundbreaking "public opinion" surveys.
Anyone with the slightest shred of intellectual honesty knows these polls to be the epitome of clumsy propaganda.
Therefore, I encourage all open-minded Freepers to review the exposé entitled With NBC/WSJ It’s Not Polling, It’s "Gaslighting" - Media Manipulation: The Latest Version which was recently posted on FR.
The fact that Steelfish and his Trump-hating ilk would cite these intentionally dishonest polls, which are aught but feeble Establishment spin, is a testimony to their abject desperation.
Wednesday we will have a new front runner.
I don’t think many states are left for Cruz to do well in. He screwed up when he lost the south. He was supposed to win them all. Instead he lost them all.
LoL.
Well...that went well, didn't it?
Leopards can't change their spots.
Yet he’s far ahead of the others in second place.
That is ridiculous. Trump has been compared to Hitler from day one. And the BLM has been rioting and hitting old ladies in the face for months now. How can you blame Trump for something that already existed?
I was at the rally in Chicago. I was ambushed by a mob of thugs—I had no “identifying trump affiliation” such as a bumper sticker or red Trump hat. I did nothing to incite them—I was simply trying to leave a parking garage...
They screamed at me, pounded on my windows, sprayed the car. However, the most scary thing in the ambush was the hate in some of the professional thugs eyes! I did nothing to these people, yet people hated me because I was white and a probable Trump supporter :(
2 minute video, I am in the second car in the line...black SUV. Scary stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFGYgHFMJkA
Hypothetical polls are weak, especially so many months away. When the decision comes time between Hillary and Trump, these numbers will be very different.
Cruz will end May with more amassed delegates than Trump; Indiana is likely the state that will put Cruz ahead. My numbers tell me that it is iffy if Cruz will be able to reach the magic number by the convention, but he will certainly be well ahead of Trump by then. Cruz ought to be at least 200 delegates ahead of Trump by the date of the New Jersey primary, even spotting Trump Florida and Ohio. By the convention, Cruz may be as little as 5 or 10 delegates short of a majority - or he may well be over the top.
Only two names will be eligible to be placed into consideration for nomination; Trump and Cruz. Also, the convention rules are already set, and NO OTHER NAMES can be considered for the nomination even if it is not decided on the first ballot. This is going to be a binary choice: Trump or Cruz.
Cruz will win - if not on the first ballot, then the second.
Wowza! Cruz getting a whole 25 percent of the entire Republican electorate! Woo hoo how impressive. With talk radio titans kissing his ass 24/7 and newfound support from Bush/Romney/Fox news.
What a loser with loser spambots too dumb to realize how pathetic that is.
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