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The polling impact and perhaps the voting impact of donald trump's effort to dip ted cruz in maple syrup and wrap him in the flag and the fact we're discussing it is a trump political victory. there say question we answered on nbc's meet the press. >> your chief competitor is ted cruz. you brought up the canada citizen ship issue. do you believe he is constitutional eligible? i know the supreme court has never ruled in. what does that mean? do you yourself think he should be eligible? >> what happens is i was watching lawrence tribe of harvard who is a constitutional expert, one of the true ex...

And that, i have to tell you, i spent a lot of time at donald trump rallies. i spent some time with the democrats. even when you talk to people who go to trump rallies, some say that bernie sanders appeals to them and it's all because of this same idea. jeb bush really learned this the hard way with trump. he was the other person in this race. a year ago we were all sitting around saying this is just going to be jeb bush versus hillary clinton. it's going to be so predictable almost boring. well, it's very clear that the electorate is really not onboard with that idea and hillary clinton is no...

Rhetoric. maeve reston has more. >> reporter: we are seeing this battle intensify with trump and cruz. both men on the campaign trail this weekend. both in iowa and trump coming to nevada which is one of the key early primary states. donald trump did a very wide ranging speech here in reno. offering a stiff foreign policy critique of obama and clinton. returning to ted cruz. he is coming back to the citizenship issue over and over. talking about uncertainty of the fact that ted cruz was born in canada. although he was born to an american mother. a lot of constitutional scholars say this is not...

If you look at that poll. but we'll have to see. ted and i are definitely number one and two in iowa. so that's where we are and we're going to see how that -- and i happen to think that from my standpoint -- now politically, i should say, if i come in two, three, four, or five in iowa, i wouldn't be. >> you're going to be unhappy if you lose iowa? >> i would like to win iowa. i say that with trepidation, because this way if i come in at number two. . but if you look at ted in new hampshire, he's not doing well at all. >> well, you heard it there with donald trump and ted cruz running neck and...

Escalated the fight. >> reporter: john and christine, we are seeing this battle intensify with donald trump and ted cruz as cruz surged in the polls in iowa. both men on the campaign trail this weekend. both in iowa and trump coming to nevada. that is a key early primary state. donald trump did a wide ranging speech in reno. offering a stiff foreign policy critique. repeatedly returning to ted cruz. he is coming back to the citizenship issue over and over again. talking about whether there is uncertainty in the fact that ted cruz was born in canada although born to an american mother. a lot of...