Posted on 12/22/2015 4:10:09 AM PST by VinL
Ted Cruz is going to wake up to an early Christmas gift from the polling elves at Quinnipiac University, as their new results show him making a YUGE leap in popularity to gain on the front-runner Trump. For his part, he increased by one point as well.
Donald Trumpâs perch atop the 2016 presidential polls is looking a little shakier this morning.
In the latest Quinnipiac University national survey released Tuesday, Trump leads Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by just four percentage points.
Trumpâs share remained essentially unchanged from the universityâs last poll, ticking up one point to 28 percent. Cruz, meanwhile, shot up eight percentage points to 24 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished third with 12 percent, a five-point drop since late November, while retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson continued his downward spiral with 10 percent, a six-point hit in the same period. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie registered 6 percent, his highest level of support in a telephone poll since late May. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took 4 percent, while all other candidates earned 2 percent or less and 8 percent remained undecided. Of those who named a candidate, 58 percent of Republican voters said they might change their mind before voting in their stateâs primary.
Cruz commanded pluralities of support over Trump among those describing themselves as members of the tea party (38 percent to 27 percent) and white, born-again Evangelical Christians (33 percent to 22 percent). Cruz also led Trump among very conservative supporters (38 percent to 27 percent), while Trump led at least nominally in every other demographic polled.
But itâs close. Among men, for example, Cruz trails Trump 30 percent to 29 percent, while among those with a college degree, he trails 24 percent to 21 percent.
In other results, it looks like Cruz does best in a head-to-head competition with Hillary, but he finishes even:
Which one of Donald’s children are you referring to?
Everything except several billion dollars that don’t come from someone else whom he might have to defer to.
I’m supporting Cruz, but have zero faith in these polls. There’s only one poll that counts and it will take place on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
It is my strong, unshakable opinion that all these polls are merely tools the media uses in their ongoing attempts to manipulate voters for the media’s agendas. Just that simple.
Up until then it's a struggle to keep up with the polls or even see what they are polling or what segment they are polling.
If Cruz really is surging this way, the boys that run the party will need to step up their attacks on Cruz...maybe outstripping their efforts against Trump. Cruz' popularity will have come without $100,000,000 of free publicity the media has gleefully given Trump, not that Trump hasn't earned it and is fully aware of how to use it.
It will be interesting to see how these two guys deal with it as rivals.
As a Cruz fan, i’m thrilled he’s tired with Hillary.
she was ahead of him by about 30 points six months ago, :)
but trump’s people are dug in deep.
i’ll take either one over hitlery
How to convince Trump fans He is not the one....
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