From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this the nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A Surprising Development in the race for president leads our news tonight. A brand new nbc news wall street journal poll shows donald trump has slipped from theeop spot nationally falling behind ted cruz among republican prqmary voters. Our poll has cruz now ahead at 28 with trump at 26 and marco rubio rounding out the top three at 17 . Trumps tumble from the top spot comes as he and cruz trade threats, dares and accusations ahead of saturdays South Carolina primary where trump still leads. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has late details. Reporter tonight a stunning shift in the republican race, a new n frontrunner, ted cruz. Its tremendously encouraging to be leading the field nationally. I think as a result reporter did you ever think youd be here . That was always the plan. Look, thats how you win. Reporter its a 15point flip from last month, trump slipping seven points and cruz up eight. Af
Campaign for policy differentiations snow hauls knew this moment was coming . Of course it was headed to this. Reporter in South Carolina its trump who is still dominating in the polls. Cruz, trailing him, marco rubio close behind and closing in. Late tonight pick up a new endorsement from South Carolinas popular governor. Thank you. Reporter rubio wasnt the only one looking for nikki haleys support. Jeb bush was, too, but our new polls hypothetical headtohead matchups show bush and john kasich would lose to donald trump. Only cruz and rubio would beat him. Lester . Hallie jackson, thank you. Im joined now by chuck todd, our political director and moderator of meet the press. Chuck, theres been broad consensus if trump wins South Carolina he would have a clear path to the nomination. Do these new National Poll numbers suggest things wont be that easy . Reporter i think what you see here with our new numbers is this, lester. Is that weve always told you and weve been polling this for mo
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Ahead of saturdays South Carolina primary where trump still leads. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has late details. Reporter tonight a stunning shift in the republican race, a new national frontrunner, ted cruz. Its tremendously encouraging to be leading the field nationally. I think as a result reporter did you ever think youd be here . That was always the plan. Look, thats how you win. Got to get to first place to win. Reporter its a 15point flip from last month, trump slipping seven points and cruz up eight. After the iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and saturday nights debate. Republican voters have taken a pause deciding whether or not they want to nominate donald trump to be president. Reporter as cruz heats up, hes burning it down in South Carolina with a scorched earth news conference. File a lawsuit. Reporter daring donald trump to sue him over this ad. Well, im very pro choice. Reporter trump wants cruz to stop airing the spot pointing to Trump Supporters have shown a great like
Cruz. Its tremendously encouraging to be leading the field nationally. I think as a result reporter did you ever think youd be here . That was always the plan. Look, thats how you win. Got to get to first place to win. Reporter its a 15point flip from last month, trump slipping seven points and cruz up eight. After the iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and saturday nights debate. Republican voters have taken a pause deciding whether or not they want to nominate donald trump to be president. Reporter as cruz heats up, hes burning it down in South Carolina with a scorched earth news conference. File a lawsuit. Reporter daring donald trump to sue him over this ad. Well, im very pro choice. Reporter trump wants cruz to stop airing the spot pointing to his current prolife stance. Trump supporters have shown a great likelihood of forgiving him for positions like that. Reporter cruz insists hell put the ad on tv more often now, even as trump doubled down on his threat in an msnbc town