constitution? something is causing cruz to unemployment rate and creating jobs almost 300,000 jobs a month lose control. would you say he was a failure? if he was ronald reagan, 22 hallie jackson is in south times in the reagan recovery we carolina. carol lee is a reporter for the created more than 300,000 jobs a wall street journal. a new poll out of iowa shows ted month. it has happened seven times in cruz dropping, donald trump the obama recovery in the same inching up. number of months. cruz still in the lead but just the way we have unemployment down from 10% to 5% in the obama by three points. cruz lost six points. administration is by people since december trump gained one. give us a sense of how it is tropping out of the work force. effecting both campaigns. reporter: i think what you 48.7% of the adult americans can take away from this new poll have a full time job today. is this idea that over the last that is low in american month ted cruz as he has risen historical stan
i think that s a big part of it. a big audience was tuning in for what was largely a good night for ted cruz. but really what s behind these numbers is he s consolidating a lot of conservative support. you have seen ben carson slip over the last month or six weeks or so. ted cruz is getting all of that support. marco rubio has slipped a little as well. the decision by ted cruz to go hard after marco rubio on immigration. e we heard him mention it on stage last week in las vegas. he said amnesty. it takes marco rubio awhile to explain his immigration position. he supports overall comprehensive immigration reform. ted cruz says he does not, although there are some nuances. conservatives hate that. that s one of the reasons he s rising here. he s also been campaigning sort of under the radar for most of the year here. a lot of conservatives, a lot of faith activists and all that is coming into play now at the end of the year. at the debate when he was explaining immigration, it was a
will challenge marco rubio on immigration votes. it is these two republican senators. one from texas, one from florida that are the future of the party. that is what marco rubio talked about last night here in las vegas. it is our turn. the time for us to act is now from what we have before us is the opportunity to be the authors ever the most extraordinary p chchapter in th most amazing story in the history of america. reporter: he calls himself the next generation of republican leaders. he will bring in a knnew era of the party. trump will say they are not experienced enough to be president. if republicans are looking for a way forward and generation and path, marco rubio says he is that type of candidate. for all of the dynamics to watch, ted cruz and marco rubio are among the stop. john. thanks, jeff.
shows ted cruz actually leading donald trump by two points there. in new hampshire, trump is out in front. so ted cruz and marco rubio have their own problems. namely each other. two young senators. sons of cuban immigrants. will they get in a boxing match on the stage? we have cnn s jeff zeleny with that. reporter: john, one of the things to watch is ted cruz and marco rubio. the freshmen senators going head-to-head on the votes on substantive matters. for all of the blustern the campai campaign, we will see them say they are not tough enough. he will call votes into question. at the same time, senator cruz
and attacked from the left for her support of the war in iraq. she s really got a tight rope that she s trying to walk. she s got a tight rope but pretty much all at candidates do. we re already hearing from some of the gop candidates about it and their approach in fighting this. but this is going to change the way foreign policy, national security and the fight in combating isis and how that approaches for all of them. i think a lot of the republican candidates haven t exactly been on a tight rope. they ve more been like swinging on a trapeze. on saturday you heard donald trump in texas connecting the paris attacks to gun control. and also to his anti-immigration stance. you saw that also, rand paul trying to use paris to attack marco rubio on immigration. all of them really picking up on the this is why we re against immigration reform. i don t know that that s going to really help the party going