It only took one 21 hour time-wasting speech filled with references to Dr. Seuss, Whitecastle, and Jason vs. Freddy for Ted Cruz to rocket past Rand Paul as the darling of the Lunatic Base of the Republican party.
Cruz leads national GOP field because he's at 34% with 'very conservative' voters to 17% for Paul, 12% for Ryan: http://t.co/i9OjhctM1c
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) September 27, 2013
Chris Christie leads Ted Cruz 34-4 with moderate Republicans…but there just aren't that many of them: http://t.co/i9OjhctM1c
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) September 27, 2013
Cruz has gained 8 points since our last national 2016 poll in July while everyone else has more or less stayed in place. He’s made himself the face of a government shutdown over Obamacare, and the Republican base supports that by a 64/20 margin. It’s not surprising that Republicans identifying as ‘very conservative’ support a shutdown 75/10, but even the moderate wing of the party supports it by a 46/36 margin.
I expect this means Rand Paul will try to one-up Cruz in the near future.