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
Times over. Nightly news begins right now. 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 the top spot nationally falling behind ted cruz among republican primary 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 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
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 hall. Ive had Great Success in business. Ive had Great Success with lawsuits, and i dont know that were going to have a lawsuit but we certainly want to keep so
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 hall. Ive had Great Success in busi