Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is encroaching on real estate magnate Donald Trump’s lead in the Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday morning.
Trump polled at 28 percent, followed by Cruz at 24 percent.
The poll found half of those surveyed would be embarrassed if Trump became President.
Trump also lost to Clinton by 7 points and Sanders by 13 points in head-to-head match-ups.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took third with 12 percent with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson close behind at 10 percent. No other candidates poll in double digits.
When asked about the the Republican debate on Dec. 15, 25 percent said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did the worst job whereas 40 percent said Cruz performed the best.
The poll was conducted among 1,140 registered voters nationwide from Dec. 16-20 by live interviews to land lines and cell phones with 508 Republicans. The margin of error overall was plus or minus 2.9 percent and the margin of error was plus or minus 4.4 percent for Republican voters.
Cruz should be the winner. He combines the Tea Party with the Southern Fried Religiosity, both now ingrained in the Republican Party throughout the US, in one candidate. The perfect Teavangelical.
To those who prefer a tent preacher, perhaps they should look into Jim Jones.
Trump was the messenger, Cruz is the Beast itself slouching toward Bethlehem to be bore the shit out of us.
Like one will actually be better than the other in the grand scheme of things. Cruz’s main advantage is that he units the various hard conservative factions together. He is probably more dangerous than Trump really when you get down to his policies as his goal is pretty much to return the US to some mythical time that never was.
IF, and that’s a big IF, Cruz is a so called great defender of the US Constitution, then he needs to disqualify himself from running for President! He was NOT born in the US and his mother renounced her US Citizenship to become a Canadian. His father illegally entered Canada when the Fascist regime of Batista collapsed and the common people took back their country under Fidel Castro. Cruz’s dad is a fascist and Cruz himself is a fascist.
Cruz…he is a Canadian and if they won’t take him back then deport him to Cuba.
Why aren’t Sheriff Arpaio and Trump demanding to see Teddy boy Cruz’s birth certificate and then claiming it is a forgery? Do they just worry about black’s and birth certificates…what about Curz acting like a white guy - does he just get a pass?