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Drudge Report Reveals How These 4 Candidates Stood Out In A Big Way At GOP Debate
The political sector is abuzz with the news of Tuesday’s Republican debates on the Fox Business Network, and leading the conversation as always is the Drudge Report. With its poll on how well the candidates during the main stage debate performed, Drudge is a leading indicator of how Republican voters responded to the debates, and the results are gratifying to conservatives.
So, how well did the eight main event candidates do? Well, according to the over 300 thousand Drudge readers who voted, Donald Trump maintained his front-runner status, with 35 percent of the voters saying he “won” the debate.
But surging ahead in second place was conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who came in second place with 24 percent of the vote. This surge in popularity probably will make conservatives quite happy and will likely help spur the Texan to stay in the race while other candidates begin to drop out.
Cruz is perennially third or fourth in the polling, so his numbers are certainly solid enough to play the waiting game to see where he can go after some of these other, lower polling candidates finally give up the ghost.
In third and fourth place came Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and then Florida Senator Marco Rubio respectively. Next came Dr. Ben Carson at a mere 5 percent, closely followed by former HP CEO Carly Fiorina at 4 percent. Bringing up the rear, way back in the pack, were Ohio Governor John Kasich at 2 percent and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at a tiny 1 percent.
Others found similar results. An unscientific reader poll at the popular conservative website Right Scoop also put Trump in the lead but found Rand Paul second followed by Ted Cruz. Right Scoop also found Kasich and Bush far, far down the list at less than 3 percent each.
But it seems that much of the buzz centered around Ted Cruz, who continues to impress voters with his quick but considered answers to questions.
In fact, the Heritage Foundation recently rated Ted Cruz as its top, most conservative candidate.
Cruz was awarded high praise for his positions on the issues in the new Heritage Action 50-page 2016 presidential policy scorecard report. The report grades the candidates across six categories–growth, opportunity, civil society, limited government, favoritism and national security–and Cruz was tops in nearly every category.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/drudge-report-reveals-how-these-4-candidates-stood-out-in-a-big-way-at-gop-debate/
I like Ted Cruz, unfortunately he has two very big obstacles against him that give me pause 1). His wife, Heidi, works as a managing director in Houston for Goldman Sachs (yes, that Goldman Sachs). And, 2). Is Ted eligible being born in Canada and his father being Cuban born in Cuba?
Both are huge red flags.