Cruz said he would advise the U.S. Department of Justice to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood, and that he would rip to shreds the Iranian Nuclear Deal.

Mike Huckabee, trailing far behind in the polls and contemplating withdrawing from the race if he does not place in the top 3 in Iowa come February, suddenly scented blood in the water when tapes emerged revealing Ted Cruz’s bogus culture war platform.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll has some good news for Tea Partiers – Sen. “Hillary Clinton tops him. Sen. Ted Cruz has been very clear about where he stands”. “Can a candidate that half the American electorate thinks is an embarrassment win in November?”

While the poll found that Cruz wouldn’t lose to Clinton, it also found that he would not defeat her. In fact, a Cruz-Clinton match-up would be a tie, according to the poll, 44 percent to 44 percent.

Sanders, meanwhile, would beat Trump 51 to 38 percent in a head-to-head matchup, but fall to Rubio and Cruz by respective margins of 45 to 42 percent and 44 to 43 percent, the survey found.

Both Zachary and Sexton said they believed Cruz will become the GOP presidential candidate for the November 8, 2016, election. “I think in many ways that’s probably still the case”, he said. It includes margins of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points for the 508 Republicans polled and 4.6 percentage points for the 462 Democrats surveyed.