Posted on 04/05/2016 7:24:52 PM PDT by Steelfish
Shock: Ted Cruz Takes Lead in Reuters Poll Over Donald Trump for First Time
by MIKE FLYNN5 Apr 2016
For the first time in the Republican primary, Reuters tracking poll shows Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% leading Donald Trump among likely voters in the Republican primaries.
This is also the first time Donald Trump hasnt led the tracking poll in 2016.
Cruz has the support of 39 percent of likely Republican voters nationwide, just ahead of Donald Trump, who has 37 percent support. Ohio Governor John Kasich is a distant third, with 23 percent support.
In the broader survey of all Republicans, rather than likely voters, Trump still has a four-point lead. This, however, is sharply down from the 28-point lead he enjoyed in the middle of March.
Trumps current support among Republican likely voters is the lowest since the end of February, when Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)78% and Ben Carson were still in the race. Since the race narrowed to three remaining candidates, Trump has enjoyed the support of almost half of Republican voters, or 45 percent.
Trumps collapse in the Reuters tracking poll began on March 26, when the GOP frontrunner topped out at 48 percent support. Since then, Trump has lost 13 points of support. He gained two points back in todays tracking poll.
The Reuters tracking poll is based on a five-day rolling average of results. Each day, a new round of daily interviews are added to the tracking poll, while older interviews are dropped from the tracking poll. As a result, there can be daily blips in the poll. The overall trend, however, is unmistakable. Trump has lost a considerable amount of support in the past two weeks and Cruzs support has surged.
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And so the whining begins. Trump has $1Billion in Free Media Exposure and he’s getting his ass cheesed.
“moderate himself”
Quit parroting Establishment media talk points.
It does not make you sound intelligent.
Please give specifics instead of the same old tired Platitudes by all the pseudo intellectual losers in the Establishment media.
“Even lyin Ted admits it and said he will not drop out even if its mathematically impossible for him to win.”
You do understand the difference between winning on the first ballot and winning on subsequent ballots, do you not? So long as Trump goes in with less than 50% of delegates on the first ballot, Cruz is the likely nominee.
ROLL CRUZ!
Yes, the GOP will hand it to Cruz. LOLOLOL
And so the whining begins. Trump has $1Billion in Free Media Exposure and hes getting his ass cheesed.
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You would be an absolute fool if you believe that was a positive $1Billion in Free Media Exposure. If you believe Cruz will be the nominee, you’ll be the one getting your ass cheesed.
You probably believe the media will be just as nice to Ted if he was the actual nominee. It’s not going to happen.
Congrats on your win tonight
The GOPe is pround tonight!
Glad you got what you wanted
$1 billion of media negative attacks. You automatic assume thats positive media instead of negative media
Democrats are hoping for a Cruz nomination
They want Cruz to prevail
LIE. With all Filters removed Trump is ahead by 10.
Democrats are hoping for a Cruz nomination
They want Cruz to prevail
Agree 100%.
He is sure to lose. The Cruz supporters here will wonder where all the negative Trump ads went if he faces Hillary. The GOPe would be just fine if Hillary is elected.
The canadian creep will lose spectacularly to any demoncrat candidate, Bernie, Slow Joe, The Squaw, or Hitlary.
All that GOP-e reptile Cruz has done is slither out of a wagon rut in a establishment, cheep labor/NWO, establishment `Grand Old Party’ (RIP, 2016) dirt-road stronghold.
From now on, if he ventures out he’ll be chased back where he belongs, like the side-winding rattlessssssssnake he is, nursing a bad case of the shingles caught from a pro lady rattler.
Our long nightmare comes to an end.
Trump will be back on top soon.
Please give specifics instead of the same old tired Platitudes by all the pseudo intellectual losers in the Establishment media.
Even his kids have asked him to act presidential. He told them he has to get rid of Cruz and kasich and then he can act presidential.
he can keep up the crazy act and lose or he can moderate his behavior and win.
Its not pseudo...its obvious
72% of Wisconsin’s “Conservative Solutions” hipsters hated Trump since December.
It’s amazing he gets 100% & 100% of turnout and non-haters.
I noticed Ted Cruz’s WI victory is not allowed a breaking news thread here on FR. I miss the days when FR supported conservative candidates.
What filters? Didn’t Trump says he has $ billions? Why didn’t he spend his “own” money to counter attack? Politics is not beanbag. The fact is Trump is a cheapskate like having hundreds of foreign workers come over to work at Mar-a-Lago for minimum wage?
No, Trump thinks his free media is enough and then when he comes up with harebrained responses (like selling US assets- presumably to the Chinese- to eliminate a $19T debt in 8 years) he blames the media for defining himself. This man is your typical conman and snake oil salesman. He simply is not ready for primetime and needs to go back to Reality TV
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