Ted Cruz has increased his standing nationally by close to 20 points, putting him in a statistical dead heat with The Donald:
REUTERS – Republican presidential underdog Ted Cruz has pulled into a statistical dead heat with front-runner Donald Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
The U.S. senator from Texas has 35.2 percent support among Republicans to Trump’s 39.5 percent, according to the survey taken from April 1-5, putting the two within the poll’s credibility interval of 4.8 percentage points. The two were also briefly in a dead heat on March 28.
Trump first jumped to the top of the Reuters/Ipsos national poll in July 2015. The only time a rival came close to Trump’s lead in the poll before Cruz was Nov. 7. when neurosurgeon Ben Carson briefly tied him.
Cruz had trailed Trump nearly 20-points a month ago.
This is only one national poll, but I’ll take any good news I can get.
It’s also worth pointing out that a new poll for California came out yesterday, showing Trump only +8 points: Trump 40, Cruz 32, Kasich 17.
Of course spoiler Kasich is remaining in the face, but I dare say that should he get out well before California, that it will most definitely go to Cruz at that point.