Posted on 03/27/2016 2:01:58 PM PDT by drewh
ed Cruz may be gaining on Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in the largest remaining state in the Republican primary.
A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll of likely Republican voters published on Sunday showed the Texas senator, with 35% support, just 1 point behind Trump's 36% in California.
California is the largest and most delegate-heavy state remaining in the Republican nominating contest. In the poll, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the third GOP candidate, logged a distant third with 14% support.
Other recent polls have mostly shown Trump with a large lead over Cruz and Kasich, and with the primary still over two months away, the polls could easily shift before election day.
Still, even if Trump wins the primary outright, Cruz's strength in California could still pose a problem for the real-estate magnate.
The Times/USC poll is one of the first released since Sen. Marco Rubio dropped out of the race, and could hint that Cruz has a shot at taking a large chunk of the delegates home in California. Thirteen delegates are awarded to the state-wide winner, while the remaining sum are awarded by whichever candidate wins each district.
The Sunday poll also found Cruz's strength concentrated in Los Angeles County and the Central Valley, one of the more rural parts of the state. Some observers further speculated that Kasich could play well in Democratic-heavy coastal areas. Taken together, Cruz and Kasich's support in California could hinder Trump's goal of securing the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination on the first round of voting.
California's primary is on June 7.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
CalifornicaTED.
Frankly anyone posting a poll about Cruz had might as well put a big old asterisk in front of it.
Reuters Poll Mar 25, 2016 (5 Day Rolling) [Trump vs Cruz - Trump 54.7% Cruz 37.9 %]
Not buying it. The central valley cowboys are gonna go Trump.
Except a second poll earlier today from CA had Trump with a 14 point lead there. Oh well, sorry you had to get a Cruz inside organization to quickly draft a poll to keep your team pumped up.
Another push poll designed to advance The narrative of a contested convention. Notice all the questions in these polls are always structured to reflect Trump negatively. That is, would you vote for Trump if he’s the nominee? Is Trump divisive? Do women like Trump? Teddy’s on life support after last week. More will come out soon.
What rock did they drag this “pollster” from under?
He’s not even an appealing liar and cheater.
they should be drug tesTED
I love these outlier polls. LOL!
We can only hope Trump will win the delegates and expose a real corrupt Republican establishment.
| Poll | Date | Sample | MoE |
Trump
|
Cruz
|
Kasich
|
Rubio
|
Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 3/6 - 3/23 | -- | -- | 34.3 | 26.0 | 15.8 | 14.0 | Trump +8.3 |
| LA TimesLA Times | 3/16 - 3/23 | 332 LV | 5.5 | 36 | 35 | 14 | -- | Trump +1 |
| PPICPPIC | 3/6 - 3/15 | 321 LV | 7.3 | 38 | 27 | 14 | -- | Trump +11 |
| Landslide/NSONLandslide | 3/9 - 3/10 | 407 LV | 4.9 | 38 | 22 | 20 | 10 | Trump +16 |
| Smith Johnson ResearchSmith Johnson | 3/7 - 3/9 | 454 LV | 4.0 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 18 | Trump +5 |
Ted is a lying, empathy lacking, narcissistic, sociopathic CON MAN.
Go ahead and screw over the USA Cruzers...
I’m shocked that this push poll doesn’t show Kasich in the lead.
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