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....
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Cruz needs to relentlessly pummel trump from here on out.
#34 No doubt the Mouth will send out a cease and decist letter to the pollster and threaten lawsuits unless they immediately give him the lead.
Trey Gowdy backing rubio is just downright disappointing to me.
Im getting the feeling like we’re gonna end up with an establishment candidate.
I didn’t think it would happen but it looks like the ducks are lining up.
seems like EVERYONE is beating Hillary. Every now and then , life gives me something to smile about.
GW Bush was down 12 points to John Kerry at this point in 2004,
However like Crustsians you like to herry pick your “polls” since the facts have a tendency to smack you repeatedly in the face.
Read: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/surprise-trump-falls-behind-cruz-national-nbc-wsj-poll-n520296
Another possible explanation for Trump's decline in the new NBC/WSJ poll is an increase in "very conservative" Republican voters from January's sample.
Meanwhile nikki halley and trey gowdy are lining up behind rubio.
Trump and cruz blast each other while rubio passes both. Just watch.....
Every poll that puts cruz ahead in anything, the talking heads on TV call an OUTLIER. LOL.
NBC poll? HA!!!
Hmm a professional poll by Qunnipac shows Trump up verse a News Media poll from the Cheap Lavor Express the Wall Street Journal/NBC showing Cruz up. Seems you are in something of a quandary here since the professional polls contribution your spin lie.
Well let’s see Q Poll Trump + 20 USATODAY Poll Trump + 2
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.
400 respondents for a national poll—across 50 states?
Do the math—it’s baloney.
Good news, if accurate.
And another national poll out today finds Trump leading by 15 nationally and another by an even larger percentage. This poll just doesn’t sound right at all. But it shows Trump shouldn’t get overconfident.
And if I skew a poll with retirees the poll would pronounce Matlock as the # 1 viewed program in America today.
PLEASE keep posting your ignorant hysteric rants. No surprise posters like you who favor the moronic attack bot snark style posting stick together
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