DES MOINES — Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are trying to squeeze through an opening in Iowa.And they’re starting to rub — perhaps even throw — elbows.Cruz and Rubio, a pair of U.S. senators from Southern states, have been rising in the polls in Iowa, threatening to break the three-month stranglehold of the top spots enjoyed by Donald Trump and Ben Carson.The most recent poll in Iowa, published this past week by Quinnipiac University, showed Cruz not only overtaking Carson in the second spot but finishing within the margin of error of Trump.Meanwhile, Rubio has become a steady top-four finisher in polling in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.As they continue to threaten Trump and Carson’s perch atop the polls, the Cruz and Rubio campaigns in recent weeks have turned their sights on each other, perhaps sensing a narrow lane emerging through which a more traditional candidate can penetrate the anti-politician sentiment that has fueled Republican voters this year.“They’re similarly situated,” said Craig Robinson, who publishes the website TheIowaRepublican.com and is a former political director for the state party and field organizer for Steve Forbes’s presidential campaign in 2000.
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Sun, 11/29/2015 - 12:29pm
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