Posted on 02/17/2016 2:09:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz has inched ahead of Donald Trump in a new national poll released Wednesday.
The Texas senator has the backing of 28% of Republican voters nationwide, unseating Trump, who won the support of 26% in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. But Cruz's 2-point edge is within the poll's margin of error.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio comes in third with 17% support, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 11%, Ben Carson at 10% and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in last place with 4%.
The results are a major change from last month's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, when Trump held a 13-point lead over Cruz, 33% to 20%.
The latest survey was conducted by Republican pollster Bill McInturff and Democratic pollster Peter Hart after Saturday's GOP debate in South Carolina....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Despite what people here seem to think, Cruz has only just begun to attack Trump.
It’s about time.
-— Cruz needs to relentlessly pummel trump from here on out. -—
Trump couldn’t handle Cruz one-on-one. He became completely unglued. It was important for people to see Trump’s inability to handle being contradicted in an uncontrolled environment.
Wall Street Journal owned by open borders Trump hater Rupert Murdock comes up with a totally counter poll admittedly manipulated and says Cruz +2 - lots of luck with that.
Latest National Polls
Morning Consult 2/16 41 - 12 Trump
NBC/WSJ 2/16 28 - 26 Cruz
Quinnipiac 2/15 39 - 18 Trump
Suffock/USAToday 2/15 35 - 20 Trump
NBC/Survey Monkey 2/14 38 - 18 Trump
Can you provide a link for that data?
Right, Johnnie. Ignorant hysteric rants are the sole property of Trump supporters.
No one else is allowed to use them.
You’re kidding. Twitter makes it legit since when.
I said the source was listed on twitter, that is where I saw the poll.
Trump is definitely leading the dems poll.
They want him bad.
It was on Twitter, listed with the source.
Congrats! Now, thatâs a funny post ... I laughed out loud.
Thanks. It would be funny to hear Cruz use that line in the next debate against Trump, if Trump brings up how he is winning by yuuuge margins in all the polls.
What???
I cannot make generalizations?
Who knew.
Who can I sue.
Okay, I’m mad now.
Yeh its a push poll. :-)
If only the veil would fall from the eyes of the Trumpers.
But they keep their fingers in their ears and their eyes squinched shut.
See no Trump evil, hear no Trump evil.
I would love to see Trump debate Cruz. The mouth, the mouth, tiny pouty mouth.
Can you provide me the source?
I do my best to link to any data that I reference as a courtesy to those who might wish to examine or verify it.
The vote in NH was pretty telling with more republican voters than democrat.
Hard to believe in NH.
Looks like Hillary is sacrificing a popular win in early states, doesn’t need it because of the super delegates, to prop up Trump.
Even Rush has said Trump’s base isn’t republican.
I am fine with this if it helps you folks smile for a few days. ;>)
Saturday might be much different.
Trump doesn't even speak in complete sentences. Wouldn't really be fair.
That is a reddit domain and doesn’t link back to the data. I’m sorry, but I won’t consider that chart valid until I know who collected the data and where they published it.
“Trump Dominates in Bloomberg Poll Before South Carolina Primary (Trump 36 Cruz 17 Rubio 15)”.......
OK people, which is it, Cruz or Trump or Trump or Cruz? Polls mean NOTHING, its the voting that counts.
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