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A suite of new polls suggest that Ted Cruz may be gaining rapidly on Donald Trump in several key upcoming primary contests. In Wisconsin, an Emerson poll conducted March 20-22 has Cruz leading Trump by 1%, 36% to 35%. A separate poll taken March 19-20 by the Washington Free Beacon shows Cruz with a 5% lead over Trump, 36% to 31%. Both are significant improvements for Cruz compared to previous polling data from late February, which showed him trailing Trump by 11%. In California, a Los Angeles Times poll from March 16-23 puts Cruz now in a statistical tie (35%...

     A new poll conducted by the Washington Free Beacon shows Ted Cruz expanding his lead in Wisconsin. 500 likely primary voters were queried on March 19 and 20; 36.2% favored Cruz while 31.4% of voters chose Trump. Jon Kasich garnered 20.8% of the vote. The poll found that if Kasich dropped out, Cruz's support would soar to 47.8%; Trump would only increase to 36.2% Cruz's 4.8 point lead was an increase from the one-point advantage he held in an Emerson poll released on Wednesday. Every poll taken that had ben quoted in the past by...

Donald Trump has not won a majority of the vote in any state he's won. Ted Cruz has done it twice, in Wyoming and Utah. Trump's enormous unpopularity with the majority of voters is a telling indicator that he simply cannot win a general election. With his constant attacks on women, whether they be Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina, or Heidi Cruz, Trump's paltry appeal among women cripples him even further. As expert mathematician Nate Silver pointed out on Friday, if women sour on Trump, the results of his efforts in the general election would look like this: For all of...

Fox News' latest poll shows Senator Ted Cruz jumping to a massive 14 percent lead over Secretary Hillary Clinton among voters under the age of 35. The same poll shows Trump losing the same younger demographic to Clinton by more than 20 percent -despite Clinton having a 67 percent unfavorable rating among these voters. Cruz's lead among young voters is fueling his general election chances in November. In this poll, Cruz defeats Clinton 47 percent to 44 percent in the general election; Trump loses 49 percent to 38 percent. In 2008 and 2012, President Obama won younger voters by huge...

With all of the non-stop coverage of the 2016 presidential election, have you noticed as of late that Donald Trump has not said a peep about Ted Cruz not being eligible for the presidency? Earlier this year, Trump questioned whether Cruz was a natural born citizen because he was born in Calgary, Canada (to a U.S. citizen mother). Trump asserted this very question would be caught up in the court for years. Much editorial space was spent on major newspaper and TV networks discussing this issue. Many legal scholars even agreed that Trump may have a case against Cruz. This...

Michelle Fields has filed a police report against Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald Trump. Independent Journal Review has learned from a source familiar with the events that Fields has filed a report with the police department in Jupiter, Florida, which is the jurisdiction where the alleged incident occurred. Detective Adam Brown of the Jupiter PD confirmed she had filed, and said they would be releasing a statement shortly. Fields says that Lewandowski grabbed her arm when she attempted to ask Trump a question at the end of his presser following Tuesday's election results. After the CNN debate Thursday,...

There are rumors afoot. Rumors, people. Rumors. I'm reminding you this is just a rumor. Did I mention it is just a rumor and an unconfirmed rumor at that. So I've been saying that Rubio needed to get on out and barnstorm the state of Florida with Cruz to get his voters to go to Cruz. The problem is not Florida, which Rubio is otherwise going to lose, but the other states at play on Tuesday. Like in Maine, Texas, and Idaho, Rubio on the ballot could hold Cruz down where he'd otherwise win the majority or all of the...

Mark Levin tonight, on his newly launched LevinTV, announced his support for Ted Cruz, as the next president of the United States. Levin, said that Cruz supports and fights for the 'Constitution, the Republic, individual sovereignty, separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, family, faith, a secure border, and our national security. ' Levin said that he knows Cruz isn't perfect, but looking at the 'whole picture' and looking at the entire career of Cruz it really is 'a simple decision.' He went on to say that his support of Cruz isn't because of opposition to Donald Trump, John Kasich,...

A little while back, I argued that Marco Rubio's tactics in attacking Ted Cruz's Senate record on immigration and national defense, among other things, were Alinskyite. They were and still are simply and demonstrably dishonest. Yet he persists, knowing full well that by the time the truth catches up with him, if ever, the damage will have been done. More recently, Rubio and his campaign team have intensified and broadened their Alinskyite tactics, now focusing on the ultimate personal smear - that Ted Cruz is a serial liar. Even in this, Rubio is not original. Of course, Donald Trump has...

What is it about politicians and fibs that can easily be shown false? On the campaign trail in 2008 Senator Barack Obama told black audiences stories about his parents' involvement in the civil rights protests of 1960s that were not even remotely true. Over the years, Hillary Clinton has made preposterous claims about everything from being named after the conqueror of Mt Everest to having been under sniper fire in Bosnia. We all know Trump constantly proclaims he is the greatest at just about everything. Add eyesight to the list. "Because I had a view - I have a window...

Something extraordinary happened at the Republican debate on February 13, but though it led to a heated exchange between Senators Rubio and Cruz that attracted more press coverage than anything else, nobody seemed to grasp what had really happened. It began when Cruz said: "Marco went on Univision in Spanish and said he would not rescind President Obama's illegal executive amnesty on his first day in office." Rubio objected vehemently that Cruz was lying. But the transcript of the Univision program is clear: Rubio did indeed say what Cruz quotes him as saying. Was Cruz perhaps quoting Rubio out of...

Scalia's untimely death underscores why it is essential for everyone who wants to arrest America's slide into ruin to consolidate behind Ted Cruz before it is too late. Take it from the voice of reason, Thomas Sowell: Given the advanced ages of other justices, the next president is likely to have enough vacancies to fill to be able to shape the future of the court that helps shape the future of America. Already many people are complaining that the America they grew up in, and loved, is being changed into something they can barely recognize. There are looming threats from...

The Republican candidates in South Carolina have spent the last week beating each other up over their supposed untrustworthiness. This has had particular impact on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who runs under the slogan "TrusTED" and talks ad infinitum about his consistently conservative record. Polls show that the charges against Cruz have slowed his ascent in South Carolina. Meanwhile, Cruz slaps Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for his alleged lies on the campaign trail to conservative voters; Trump denounces those accusations and doubles down on the charge that Cruz is the true liar. And then there's Marco Rubio, sniping at Cruz...

It's easy to underestimate Donald Trump. The other Republican candidates in the race continue to do so, writing him off as a clown, a charlatan, a fool. Today, David French of National Review writes him off as a conventional Democrat: Trump doesn't threaten the Republican establishment because he's too conservative or too populist. He threatens the Republican establishment because he belongs in the other party. There's truth to this - there's a reason that Code Pink essentially endorsed Trump over the weekend, after Trump veered into Iraq trutherism and blamed George W. Bush for 9/11. And Trump, as I've written...

Yesterday we reported on a dust-up between the Cruz and Rubio camps about Cruz's remarks concerning the National Organization for Marriage. The relevant clip can be seen here: Cruz: I will continue pointing out the truth about records. And so when you look at the words that came out of their mouth, there is a reason that the National Organization of Marriage has endorsed me in this campaign and has said it cannot support Donald Trump or Marco Rubio because both of them are unwilling to defend traditional marriage. Today, I spoke with Brian Brown, President of the National Organization...

Mark Levin highlighted what he described as Senator Marco Rubio's previous supporting of widespread amnesty for illegal aliens on Monday. Taking aim at Rubio's latest reframing of events as having attempted to send the Gang of Eight amnesty bill to the House of Representatives for conservative amendments, Levin noted that the Florida senator opposed such proposed conservative amendments from Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Mike Lee, and Senator Jeff Sessions. Rubio has recently stated that proposed amnesty bill - what he called the "Senate immigration law" when speaking at a campaign rally - was never going to become law, stating that...

Sounds like pretty good advice, huh? Thankfully, Chuck Schumer has gone on record on this issue, insisting to the American Constitution Society that the Senate not only has the right but the duty to block Supreme Court nominees from a lame-duck President. Only with an extraordinary nominee should the Senate confirm such an appointment, Schumer insists (via Grabien and Gary Gross): Of course Schumer aimed this at George W. Bush, but note that this speech took place in mid-2007, when Bush still had 18 months left in his presidency. That's almost twice as much as Barack Obama has left in...

Ted Cruz with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press discussing the debate and the danger to the Supreme Court with Scalia's passing.

There is ubiquitous sense of betrayal among Republican voters. They went to the polls in 2014 to elect a Republican Senate and out popped a Senate controlled by Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer. Nowhere is this identity crisis more evident than within the Senate Judiciary Committee under the stewardship of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Grassley is, by all accounts, an incredibly nice man. People in Washington and his home state of Iowa speak very highly of him. Follow Grassley was a fresh-faced conservative in 1980. But he has served 36 years in the Senate, and is seeking a seventh term...

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Ted Cruz unleashed a blistering attack on Marco Rubio's record on Planned Parenthood in front of hundreds of conservative voters at the Faith and Family Presidential Forum on Friday, insisting that his Senate colleague did not stand with him last fall as he sought to strip funding for the women's health care organization in a spending bill. There is little daylight between Cruz and Rubio regarding their disdain for Planned Parenthood. But Cruz is seeking to cast Rubio as weak-kneed and unwilling to stand behind the Texas senator's 2015 strategy to defund the women's health organization. The...