Washington – Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has taken the lead in the early-voting state of Iowa, surpassing both Donald Trump, who holds the lead in most national surveys, and Ben Carson, who has scored strongly in the state in recent months, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Monday.
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The poll of likely caucus-goers in Iowa, which in February 2016 will hold the first contest in the Republican presidential nomination process, Cruz had the support of 24 percent.
That marked a jump from the 10 percent of caucus-goers who supported Cruz in October and 9 percent in August. Trump was in second place with 19 percent, followed by Marco Rubio with 17 percent and Ben Carson at 13 percent.
Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, has benefited from a decline in support for Carson. Both Republicans have a strong base of support with evangelical voters, who make up a large bloc among likely caucus-goers in Iowa.
But Carson has seen his poll numbers drop amid missteps in some of his comments about national security in the aftermath of the attacks in San Bernardino, California and Paris.
As recently as October, Carson was leading in the Monmouth poll, with the support of 32 percent of caucus-goers. In August, he was tied with Trump at 23 percent.
The poll surveyed 425 likely Iowa caucus-goers and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percent.
Baruch Hashem!
Ted Cruz is a very dangerous man. He is absolutely despised by Republicans and Democrats alike. In fact, just about everyone who works with him hates him. His former roommate from college said that he would rather have a president who is picked from the phone book than Cruz. People who knew him in college described him as “creepy, abrasive, strident, cranky and arrogant.” Some Republican thoughts on Cruz include GW Bush, who said “I don’t like the guy.” Huckabee, and Senators McCain, Cronyn, Thune, Graham, and Paul are on the record as disliking him. Cruz is a Dominionist, which means he believes the U.S. should be a christian theocracy. Cruz would be an absolute disaster for us as a people and the US as a nation.
He’s my choice since he’s going to abolish the IRS. I won’t have to worry about penalties for failing to pay taxes.
Mr. Anonymous
This country needs a guy like Cruz. What we have is dangerous!
I hope he’s a Sunday church goer. That’s the best we can ask from non-Yidden.
It reminds me of the Baal Shem H’Kodesh story of when he wouldn’t travel with a polish wagon driver because he didn’t kiss his cross before setting out on the road.
We need to go back to a value based America. All values originate with the Torah H’ Kedosha.
Bez’H we get a president who lives the values that made this great nation.