Cruz Overtakes Trump In New National GOP Poll

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has pulled ahead of rival Donald Trump, the owner of a mansion in Bedford and golf courses in Hopewell Junction and Briarcliff, in a new poll.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is slightly ahead of Bedford's Donald Trump in a national poll conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal.
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Bedford's Donald Trump has fallen behind rival Ted Cruz in a survey conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal pollsters. Other national polls say the billionaire real estate mogul is still way ahead of the rest of the Republican pack.
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Carol Reif

02/18/2016 3:30 p.m.

The NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, conducted after the latest GOP debate, found that the Texas senator was backed by 29 percent of primary voters and Trump pulled 26 percent.

In January, the same pollsters found that the billionaire real estate mogul and reality show host was 13 points ahead of Cruz, cbsnews.com reported.

However, another new national survey, this one conducted by CBS News found Trump to be way ahead of other Republican hopefuls in nearly every demographic group, with a 17 point lead over Cruz.

To read the cbsnews.com article, click here.

To read the results of the CBS poll, click here.

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