First Read: “After a slew of new polls over the past 48 hours, including from our latest NBC/WSJ poll, here is the unmistakable conclusion with seven weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are your co-frontrunners in the Republican race. And that is a potential nightmare scenario for the GOP establishment — because it might be able to sink one of these candidates but probably not both.”
“In a world without Donald Trump, there would be a Stop Cruz movement. But now the GOP establishment has to pick its poison. One other thing: Trump has now moved the window where Cruz looks moderate by comparison.”
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