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Ted Cruz used a poll Donald Trump brought up, against him. | AP Photo Cruz throws polls back in Trump's face

When Donald Trump referred to a recent CNN/ORC poll that showed Ted Cruz with just 15 percent support, the Texas senator had more results from the same survey to use against the real-estate magnate.

Noting that in the national poll of likely Republican primary voters released earlier this week, Trump said that from those results and Cruz's logic, 85 percent said they would not support him as their candidate.

"How do you -- are you at 15 percent in the new CNN poll? Do you believe in CNN?" Trump asked Cruz.

Cruz then fired back by using the same poll against Trump.

"He's told us to look to the CNN poll. That's a very good poll to look to because that CNN poll showed that head-to-head Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton by eight points," he said, referring to results conducted during the same time frame but released a day after the primary survey on Monday. "He doesn't just lose close, he loses by eight points. That same poll he told you to look at shows me beating Hillary Clinton."

The poll does show Cruz in the lead, but only by one point (49 percent to 48 percent), well within the margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.