Ted Cruz snags 10-point lead in Iowa poll


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) leapfrogged Donald Trump to take a 10-point lead as the favorite for likely Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, according to a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll released Saturday. Cruz is the top presidential pick for 31 percent surveyed, marking a jump of 21 percentage points for him since the October poll.
Trump sits 10 points back from Cruz, followed by Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). The poll's margin of error is 4.9 percentage points. The poll of 400 was conducted between Dec. 7 and Dec. 10. On Dec. 7, Trump called for a ban on Muslim people entering the U.S. for any reason.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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