Posted on 04/01/2015 1:24:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PPP's newest Republican national poll finds that Ted Cruz has the big momentum following the official announcement of his candidacy last week. His support has increased from 5% to 16% in just over a month, enough to make him one of three candidates in the top tier of GOP contenders, along with Scott Walker and Jeb Bush.
Walker continues to lead the field with 20%, although that's down from his 25% standing a month ago. Bush continues to poll at 17%, followed by Cruz at 16%, Ben Carson and Rand Paul at 10%, Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee at 6%, Chris Christie at 4%, and Rick Perry at 3%.
Cruz has really caught fire with voters identifying themselves as 'very conservative' since his announcement. After polling at only 11% with them a month ago, he now leads the GOP field with 33% to 25% for Walker and 12% for Carson with no one else in double digits. Last month Walker led with that group and almost all of the decline in his overall support over the last month has come within it as those folks have moved toward Cruz. Cruz's name recognition with Republican voters has increased from 61% to 82% since his announcement. Besides Cruz the other candidate with momentum over the last month is Rand Paul. His support has increased from 4% to 10%.
Two candidates are clearly losing ground. The biggest is Ben Carson, who's dropped from 18% to his new 10% standing. There's a lot of overlap between the voters who like Carson and the voters who like Cruz and where previously they'd been naming Carson as their first choice the momentum for Cruz lately seems to have really cut into Carson's support.
(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...
He is the only one running who can take the left and the homostapo on and deliver a clear message .
Carson has to get real and leave.
Ted Cruz was always top tier. It has taken the so-called media this long to have this driven home, right in the solar plexus.
Yeah, Carson is a smart enough guy but he just doesn’t have what it takes for politics.
imagine a real conservative that will FIGHT and has the intellect to back up his beliefs!
“imagine a real conservative that will FIGHT and has the intellect to back up his beliefs!”
Nice, we don’t need to imagine, we have the real thing in TED CRUZ
oh yeah!
:)
He can’t win! Didn’t you hear me? He can’t win!!! I’m melting! Meeeeelting!!!!!
Ben Carson - Surgeon General..
Yep!!
Remember this is PPP a leftist polling center...
This means Cruz is doing far better than they’re attributing even here....his donations are a great indication of the groundswell of support that’s spreading across the country.
Add to Carson, in no particular order:
Huckabee
Christie
Paul
Perry
Once those guys leave, it is Walker, Bush, Cruz and Rubio. I'd be happy with any combination that left Bush as merely an ex-Governor and the son and brother of Presidents.
I could easily live with Walker/Cruz, though I crave Cruz as President like I craved Reagan - and for the same reasons. Walker has something that Cruz doesn't, which is executive experience in the government. It isn't fatal, of course, not in the primaries or the general election (esp. against either Cankles or Fauxcahontas, as neither of them has any, either). However, after the Obama years, people will, I believe, want someone with actual executive experience vs. merely being a Senator...though Cruz the Senator is leagues above Obama the "present" Senator, both in time,quality of experience and leadership.
But, anyway, this was really great news - people that can't win nationally are losing ground or are so far behind as to be effectively dead, and Cruz is skyrocketing. I gave him money yesterday, and I look forward to giving him more as time passes.
If Rubio and Rand Paul also announce it’s going to make for an interesting set of primaries. I like the prospect of having to choose between Walker, Cruz, Rubio, and Paul, just so long as we don’t redo 2012 and end up with Bush taking down all four of them one at a time. I don’t see that as much of a risk, however, because all four of them are likely to be much stronger than the candidates in the 2012 field who ran opposite Romney.
I see Cruz, Rubio, and Paul as all pulling various groups into the party with their ideas and Walker positioned to draw GOPe votes from Bush, so I suspect Bush will have a much more difficult time than Romney did at taking them each down individually. More likely, as one of the four falters, the remaining ones will gain.
I think anyone else who enters the race will be wasting their time, including Carson, Perry, and Jindahl, although if Walker falters another governor could become a viable candidate (other than Bush, that is.)
Just my two cents....
Why give lightweight media darling Rubio a pass? Paul has a better claim to being a contender than Rubio.
Cruz all the way to the top.
Facebook today was filled with liberals posting mostly two things:
1. How awful it is that Indiana can discriminate against gays.
2. How Ted Cruz will spread that to every state.
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