Iowa poll: Trump regains lost ground against Cruz

Iowa poll: Trump regains lost ground against Cruz

By Nick Gass

01/13/16 06:18 AM EST

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck among likely Republican caucus-goers, according to the results of the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll released Wednesday, less than three weeks before participants will decide their state's winner.

Cruz earned 25 percent, a drop of six points from the last survey, while Trump finished close behind with 22 percent, a month after the Texas senator raced out to a 10-point lead (31 percent to 21 percent) over the Manhattan mogul in the same poll. Meanwhile, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson are virtually tied in the next tier, with Rubio grabbing 12 percent and Carson 11 percent.

Behind them, no other candidate polled in the double digits, with 6 percent not sure and 5 percent calling themselves uncommitted. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul earned 5 percent, followed by 4 percent for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and 3 percent for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, with no other candidate earning more than 2 percent support.

Cruz is the best-liked candidate in terms of overall net favorability, at a positive 57 points (76 percent to 19 percent), while Trump's favorability is a mere positive 9 points (54 percent to 45 percent), his lowest such numbers in the poll since he announced his candidacy last June.

Selzer & Co. conducted the poll from Jan. 7-10, surveying 500 likely Republican caucus-goers by telephone. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...ed-cruz-217700

Nice to see Trump and Cruz with such a demanding lead over the illegal alien amnesty supporters!