Posted on 10/14/2015 8:15:40 AM PDT by Isara
He had been in fifth place at 8 percent in the last Fox News poll after having been in third place at 10 percent in Fox's August poll.
As the latest poll shows the Republican presidential contest a neck-and-neck race between two men who have led the contest in recent weeks, a new name has risen to place third.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, now has 10 percent support in a Fox News poll released Tuesday. He had been in fifth place at 8 percent in the last Fox News poll after having been in third place at 10 percent in Fox’s August poll.
The most recent poll showed Donald Trump holding his lead with 24 percent support, while Ben Carson was right behind Trump at 23 percent. No other candidate placed in double digits.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was in fourth at 9 percent. Jeb Bush placed fifth at 8 percent. Carly Fiorina, who received a bump in support after last month’s debate, was tied with former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee at 5 percent. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had 3 percent support. Other candidates were at 1 percent or less.
Cruz last week said his actions have put distance between him and other members of the Republican pack.
“If you look to the records of all the Republican candidates there’s a big difference between my record and that of everyone else,” Cruz said. “If you ask, who has stood up to Washington? Who’s taken on not just Democrats, but taken on leaders in their own party? Republican leadership, whether was leading the fight to stop Obamacare? Whether it was leading the fight to stop executive amnesty?”
“You know at the last Republican debate in California, every Republican candidate stood up there and said, ‘we need to defund Planned Parenthood.’ But last week, when we had an epic drag down fight in Washington, not one of them showed up,” Cruz said.
Nonsense. The next president could have done that in any event.
Yes. RCP has the matchups. Clinton is very weak, and Carson, Trump & Bush are doing pretty well vs Clinton or Sanders. Biden would do very well if the US voted today. (Scroll down for various match-ups) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html
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>> “Nonsense. The next president could have done that in any event.” <<
That statement is contrary to everything else you have posted.
Concern Troll away!
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“It’s been fun watching the left and the liberal Republicans go ballistic every time Trump said something, but all that bombast is becoming tiring for me”
That is just his style. What is beneath the bombast? It isn’t Conservative principles. He is no conservative and, as a matter of fact, he isn’t a Republican or Democrat - He is a Trump. Trump is the personification of sound bites for the angry, frustrated and disgusted.
Cruz is great but flawed
2 points ain’t much
You don't have to be concerned who voted for Corker's bill, then. Your concern will be which candidate as the president will do it.
The last 2 presidential elections, we have had little to choose from. We now have a good mix of liberals, phony conservatives and real conservatives. We must choose wisely. We need someone to pull us back from the brink. If we continue to reject potentially strong and effective leaders on the basis of one or two issues, we will end up with yet another socialist at the helm. Then all will be lost.
agree 100%. He may just talk himself out of the presidency.....I will vote for Trump in the general but Im starting to have doubts as to his longevity.
AFAIK, there was only ever one perfect Man.
We hung Him on a cross…...
Seems to me someone buried the lead on this one. In the last FOX poll Trump had 26%, so he’s down 2% this time, and Carson had 18%, so he’s up 5%.
Meanwhile, Cruz was right where he was two Fox polls earlier, at 10%. (Carson was 12% in that one.)
I think Carson is playing the Trump game of doubling down on whatever he says that upsets the liberal media, but doing it with twice the brainpower, and it’s working.
And how any candidate voted on Corker's bill if the best evidence I have on how they would act in this regard as president.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html
Current General Election match ups.
Polls Clinton v gop candidates
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html
It is a rare combination.
I figured that Fiorina’s bump would be temporary and for the life of me I can’t understand Carson’s attraction. But of the serious candidates I think Cruz currently being third positions him well for continuing to climb in the weeks ahead.
From the link you gave me, it looks like Trump stack up as the LEAST BEST among Republican candidates against the Democrats.
>> Our only hope will 24/7 prayers, and organizing that event with hundreds or thousands pledging to pray in pre-selected time slots.
I like the way you think.
We pray for GOD’s favor upon Ted Cruz every single day.
>> Mercy or no mercy? We don’t deserve it.
We never did. “But while we were yet sinners...”
FRegards, and Blessings
Yep so far thats how it looks. With over a year away who
knows what it will look like.
| Poll | Date | Sample | MoE |
Clinton (D)
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Trump (R)
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Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 9/4 - 10/12 | -- | -- | 45.3 | 43.7 | Clinton +1.6 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 10/10 - 10/12 | 1004 RV | 3.0 | 40 | 45 | Trump +5 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 10/1 - 10/4 | 1338 RV | 2.7 | 44 | 44 | Tie |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 9/20 - 9/24 | RV | -- | 49 | 39 | Clinton +10 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 9/17 - 9/21 | 1574 RV | 2.5 | 45 | 43 | Clinton +2 |
| ABC News/Wash PostABC/WP | 9/7 - 9/10 | 821 RV | 4.0 | 46 | 43 | Clinton +3 |
| CNN/ORCCNN/ORC | 9/4 - 9/8 | 930 RV | 3.0 | 48 | 48 | Tie |
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