NEW POLL: Cruz RISES, Trump DROPS but still on top!

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Ted Cruz made up a little ground nationally, gaining 3 points since last month, while Trump lost some of his high ground, dropping 5 points last month. So while that may be a net gain of plus 8 for Cruz, he’s still pretty far behind Trump nationally:

THE HILL – Donald Trump holds a more than 2-to-1 advantage over the next closest GOP presidential contender in a new national poll.

According to the Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday, Trump leads the race with 36 percent support nationally. That’s down from 41 percent in the same survey from December, which had marked the highest point he’s reached so far.



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is a distant second place, taking 17 percent support — a 3-point gain over December.

The rest of the field is largely unchanged, with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in third place at 11 percent support, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 8 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 5 percent.

No other candidate takes more than 3 percent support.



“These results suggest that the GOP race is fairly static on a national level,” said Monmouth polling director Patrick Murray. “We’ll have to wait and see if the Iowa and New Hampshire results shake things up.”



I’ve been waiting for a new Iowa poll to come out. Perhaps we’ll see one later today or perhaps tomorrow.


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