The Reuters poll was an online poll. Those aren’t in consideration. He was also in 4th in the Rasmussen poll yesterday. He’ll be at the debate. Plenty of time to get traction. Newt and Santorum were both polling worse than Cruz last go around... Santorum was polling as bad as Graham. Not saying Cruz will win, but he probably will get a look, assuming he debates as well as advertised.
I actually hadn’t considered him not being a possibility until I saw that Reuters poll. Fingers crossed, because I of course want him there—but it’s hard to overestimate the perfidy of the GOPe.