Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster
Donald Trump continues to lead the pack in national polls, but lags behind Ted Cruz in Iowa, according to the latest Fox News poll.
Nationwide, Trump leads with 35 percent among Republican primary voters. Cruz comes in second, with 20 percent; while Marco Rubio is at third with 13 percent.
Ben Carson received 10 percent in the poll, conducted from Jan. 4 through Jan. 7, while Jeb Bush came in fifth, with 4 percent.
While the New York businessman leads by considerable margins, he did see a dip in his numbers from a December 2015 Fox News poll. In December, he lead with 39 percent; while Cruz had 18 percent.
Cruz continues to lead Trump in Iowa. According to a Fox News poll of likely Republican caucus-goers, Cruz received 27 percent; and Trump comes in second with 23 percent. In Iowa, Rubio comes in third with 15 percent, Carson received 9 percent; and Bush received 7 percent.
The Iowa caucuses are Feb. 1.
Two New Hampshire polls released Friday show Trump maintains a huge lead in the Granite State, though they differ on the race for second place.
According to a Fox News poll of New Hampshire Republican primary voters, Trump leads with 33 percent. Rubio comes in second with 15 percent, and Cruz is in third with 12 percent. In the Fox News poll, Bush received 9 percent support while John Kasich received 7 percent support.
The Fox News poll was by telephone, with live interviewers, from Jan. 4 through Jan. 7. It sampled 414 likely Republican primary voters, and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.
While the man at the top remains the same, the battle for second place differs in a NH1 News poll.
The NH1 News poll found Trump led the pack with 31.7 percent. However, the survey found Bush was in second place, with 11.9 percent, and Kasich was in third, with 11.8 percent.
Chris Christie came in fourth in the NH1 News poll, with 11 percent; while Cruz received 9.7 percent.
The automated poll was conducted on Thursday, and sampled 1,000 registered Republican and independent voters who said they would be voting in the state’s Feb. 9 primary. The margin of error is 3.1 percent.
