Don’t Crown Ted Cruz the Iowa Caucus Winner Just Yet
Not so fast, Jon. While Ted Cruz is certainly in a good place right now, a month-and-a-half out from the Iowa Caucus, the results are far from certain. Taking a…
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What Trump Must Do at Tuesday’s Debate
This will be the first debate without Donald Trump as “The Inevitable.” What the past few weeks have shown us is that Ted Cruz has built an impressively solid ground…
Polling Breakdown: Why Ted Cruz Has Already Won Iowa
We’re still several weeks away from the Iowa Caucus, but barring a meltdown, the GOP race is already over there. The winner will be Ted Cruz, the Republican Senator from Texas.…
Who’s Hot, Who’s Not: Cruz Cruising While Rubio Looks Outmaneuvered
HOT: The big dogs of the social conservative movement have voted, and their candidate is Ted Cruz. The effort among leading social conservative organizations to coalesce around one candidate – in…
Is Cruz Really the New Front Runner?
A piece today by Chris Cillizza in The Washington Post posits that, while Ted Cruz may not be the current Republican front runner, he’s the candidate most likely to win…
Vander Plaats Endorses Cruz
The move to Ted Cruz by prominent social conservatives continues, as Iowa’s most politically influential evangelical Bob Vander Plaats just announced he has personally endorsed Cruz. “At the end of…
Will Evangelicals Deliver Cruz Victories in Iowa, South Carolina?
Early primary state and national polling is showing the emergence of Sen. Ted Cruz as the candidate that could dethrone Donald Trump as the front-runner for the GOP nomination. In…
Rubio Pivots to Take Aim at Cruz
With 55 days remaining until the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus begins to help sort out front-runners from also-rans, Senator Marco Rubio has signaled a significant shift in his campaign approach and begun…
CNN Iowa Poll: Trump Leads Cruz By 13 Points
Maggie, CNN just released another Iowa poll this afternoon with very different results from this morning’s Monmouth survey. Thirty-three percent of likely GOP caucus-goers in the CNN poll preferred Donald…
New Poll: Cruz Surges to First Place in Iowa
Frank, it looks like you were right, again. This latest Monmouth poll shows Ted Cruz surging in Iowa: Cruz earned 24 percent of support among likely caucus-goers, with 19 percent…
New Polls: With Carson Collapsing, Will These Two Candidates Capitalize?
Maggie reported yesterday on a potential shake up in the Iowa race, and a new Quinnipiac poll released today confirms that finding: Ted Cruz has replaced Ben Carson as the…
Trump Leads, Cruz Jumps to Second in Iowa
A new CBS poll shows that Donald Trump has regained his Iowa lead, as Ben Carson fades to third, with much of his support going to Ted Cruz: Since last…
Don’t Count Jindal Out
Alex Hanson of The Iowa State Daily said not to count Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal out as the 2016 Iowa Caucuses are three months away. He writes: Don’t count out…
Steve King Endorses Ted Cruz — Will Vander Plaats Be Next?
From Politico: Iowa Rep. Steve King on Monday endorsed Ted Cruz, a coup for the Texas senator who is seeking to gain ground with the first-in-the-nation caucus state’s conservative activists, with…
Why Iowans Hate the Obama Economy
Democrats keep wanting to boast on how President Obama and the Federal Reserve “saved the economy.” But even liberals are starting to notice why that’s hard to do and the…
New Iowa Poll: Is Cruz Stealing Away Carson Supporters?
Maggie, it might be a tad premature to be announcing Ben Carson as the GOP’s new front runner. A new PPP Iowa poll released yesterday—the first post-CNBC debate Iowa poll—shows…
After 70,000 Calls, Bush Has Only 4 Iowa Volunteers
Buried in the 112 page strategy document leaked to the press was some very bad news: After paying ten staffers to make 70,000 phone calls to GOP Iowa voters, the…
Iowans to Trump: Your Falling Poll Numbers Are Your Fault, Not Ours
The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump during a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, was fixated on his Iowa poll numbers, as Ben Carson has bested him in the last three…
Carson Builds Dominant Lead in Iowa
Maggie speculated yesterday that Donald Trump might be in big trouble in Iowa after a CBS News/YouGov poll showed him with relatively low favorability among Iowans as compared to his…
Trump Baffled by Carson’s Lead with Iowa Evangelicals
Trump sounded befuddled when Jake Tapper asked him to explain why Carson has pulled ahead among evangelicals in Iowa: TAPPER: I want to ask you about specifically a group that…
