A Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll this weekend showed that the junior senator from Texas has leapt to a 10-point lead in Iowa. Bloomberg’s Joshua Green reports that Cruz is “poised to draw away even more” supporters from Donald Trump, thanks to his well-advertised strategy of killing Trump with kindness. Trump is responding in the only way he knows how, with thin-skinned aggrievement:
I was disappointed that Ted Cruz would speak behind my back, get caught, and then deny it. Well, welcome to the wonderful world of politics!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2015The two candidates, among many others, will face off on CNN on Tuesday night at the last Republican debate of 2015, where we can expect the candidates to train their sights on the new Iowa front-runner.