Posted on 12/22/2015 4:10:09 AM PST by VinL
Ted Cruz is going to wake up to an early Christmas gift from the polling elves at Quinnipiac University, as their new results show him making a YUGE leap in popularity to gain on the front-runner Trump. For his part, he increased by one point as well.
Donald Trump’s perch atop the 2016 presidential polls is looking a little shakier this morning.
In the latest Quinnipiac University national survey released Tuesday, Trump leads Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by just four percentage points.
Trump’s share remained essentially unchanged from the university’s last poll, ticking up one point to 28 percent. Cruz, meanwhile, shot up eight percentage points to 24 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished third with 12 percent, a five-point drop since late November, while retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson continued his downward spiral with 10 percent, a six-point hit in the same period. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie registered 6 percent, his highest level of support in a telephone poll since late May. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took 4 percent, while all other candidates earned 2 percent or less and 8 percent remained undecided. Of those who named a candidate, 58 percent of Republican voters said they might change their mind before voting in their state’s primary.
Cruz commanded pluralities of support over Trump among those describing themselves as members of the tea party (38 percent to 27 percent) and white, born-again Evangelical Christians (33 percent to 22 percent). Cruz also led Trump among very conservative supporters (38 percent to 27 percent), while Trump led at least nominally in every other demographic polled.
But it’s close. Among men, for example, Cruz trails Trump 30 percent to 29 percent, while among those with a college degree, he trails 24 percent to 21 percent.
In other results, it looks like Cruz does best in a head-to-head competition with Hillary, but he finishes even:
Great to see Jeb and Carson continuing to tank, and with any luck Christie's little uptick in the polls will be a flash in the pan, like Carly Fiorina's 5-6% a few months ago following post-debate hype.
Cruz has been a national political figure for less than three years. Before that he was a little known Texas politician. Trump, even though he didn’t hold elective office has been saying the same conservative things for years, and playing both parties like a puppet master. Was Cruz even voting when Reagan was president? He was 11 years old when Reagan was first elected.
Quinnipiac = Clinton pollsters. Be forewarned. They have been known to skew the margins.
Just remember: what do the poll-takers want?
Hillary!
They will do their best to use Trump and Cruz to break each other for Hillary’s sake.
Well, well, well - It seems to me that Conservatives hear the call - +10 in Evangelicals and declared hard right...
If you build it, they will come.
Ummmmm.No.
It merely means you are one of the low information, ill Informed dweebs that seem to make up the majority of Trump supporters. So far in this thread alone you have displayed a level of ignorance about the issues that is simply mind boggling as I have repeatedly had to point out to you.
I can still have an opinion about the personality of all the candidates. That was my only criticism of Trump. Jeb is whiny, Carson lacks enthusiasm an opinion of their personality.
The other day I asked a simple question “ how many times has Trump been married?”
And I was attacked as if I had accused him of rape or child molestation.
Think I'm gonna have to side with Wardaddy on this one.....
No, Happy Birthday, Mr. President
I think, given the trend of the most recent polls, that Sen. Cruz is trending upwards pretty much everywhere.
If it continues modestly, he will win Iowa, possibly NH, almost certainly SC, and then proceed to an excellent result to the SEC primary.
THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #6 - Defiling the White House Christmas Tree
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812710/posts
[This is the last Christmas to remind people before race.]
I really hope Ted Cruz can get the nomination. Trump is saying all the right things, but Trumps top priority is Donald Trump. He is having fun with this. Ted Cruz is far more serious about the awful task that lies ahead if he is elected POTUS.
Right. Like Trump has really changed the minds of Mitch O’Connell or any of the other GOPe leaders. Geez.
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We’ll never change the minds of Turtleman or any of the RINOs...they’re in politics largely ONLY for personal aggrandizement and/or financial gain. They are not principled. The only thing we can do for such creatures is to remove them from their positions where they can block actual constitutional conservative and patriotic actions or promote the interests of their financial benefactors.
I tend to agree and here's how I look at it.
If Cruz gained the nomination I doubt Trump would accept running as VP with Cruz.
You then have the backlash and disappointment of Trump voters, some of which will vote for Trump anyway, some would support Cruz, but the rest would, I believe, stay at home, as happened in 2012.
Right now Cruz is playing against Trump. Those who think Trump is too brash and rough to be president will find that when Cruz has to stand on his own, he will be "kneecapped" by his own party, the GOPe, just as he has been compromised over and over again in the U.S. Senate.
Cruz DOUBLE Rubio.
Good. The knifing worked.
Did you watch the rally? It wasn’t an attack against them at all. It is an incomplete and out of context quote. Probably meant to rile you up, and it worked.
Cruz's path to a general election victory is much more difficult than Trump's, IMHO...
” If Cruz gained the nomination I doubt Trump would accept running as VP with Cruz.
You then have the backlash and disappointment of Trump voters, some of which will vote for Trump anyway, some would support Cruz, but the rest would, I believe, stay at home, as happened in 2012.”
No. The 4 million voters who stayed home in 2012 were conservatives who detested RINO Romney. That will NOT happen with a Cruz nominee.
Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
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Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...
"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.
We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."
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"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.
We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.
These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.
These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."
"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.
Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."
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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.
The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.
For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.
We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
“No. The 4 million voters who stayed home in 2012 were conservatives who detested RINO Romney. That will NOT happen with a Cruz nominee.”
Probably correct, but then you’ll have most of the Moderates staying home, and you can forget about the Indy/crossover votes if Cruz is the nominee.
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