Ted Cruz in First Place in Chris Stirewalt's 2016 Power Index

nnj now for a few thousand sixteen presidential power index where we look every week at who's up and who's down in

the race for the White well then we great character by hand because the better and the other fucking person he joins me now as he does every

Monday okay a let's get right to Ted Cruz up one knock and Jeb bush out of your top spot bush

did shift Mr Sarah so look Jeb bush has been number one in this index and the day it started we have it

is been Jeb bush all the way along for a very simple reason which is the Republican establishment usually gets its way in

the end the guy with the most money and the corps support of elected officials etcetera etcetera etcetera outlast

his challengers and when that that's what happened last two cycles it usually does have and Jeb bush has

been in that position even though as many people who have emailed %HESITATION and tweeted excited well this guy's in fifth place he's not winning ways jabber

Rubio is a real and genuine threat to his chances to walk down that part a party what

that means is that Edward Raphael crew senator from Texas that guy has a better shot if he doesn't back make it to the finals against Jeb bush to

win the Republican party's nomination wow okay so a lot of thought went into this analysis now let's

look at your second screen for the next year people Donald Trump falling from the top three now he's down to to number five in the end Ben

Carson holding steady at six junkie Dick up to number seven Chris Christie up to to number eight now I know folks are gonna look at that to an unearthed how

down is that he is not they are not well enough liked by their party they have loyal followers among

core groups in trumps case twenty in the Wall Street journal poll that was out today twenty one percent of Republicans say that he's there guy but

unfortunately when we look at the glove on partially for trump when you look at the numbers underneath %HESITATION there are a lot of people who for whom it's

not their god let's not up on the list while you're talking about because this this came out of that the fox pulls no favor

ability which is what you're talking about adding the positives to the negative Ben Carson is at the top of that it fifty

two percent a big leap ahead then you have Rubio it thirty five here in a thirty and Jeb bush at one percent

which is exactly what you're talking he doesn't do very well with the Republican primary like even trump does better probably has a net positive of twelve points or something like that yeah

Carly Fiorina Marco Rubio very popular with their party I am not going to pay off and fun fundraising

and dividend paying dividends on fundraising and other things like that right over Donald try he's not he he is the pick of more than anybody else but he's not well liked enough yeah

interesting thing if he doesn't need the fundraising so that could factor into it let's look at the ground for net favorability

I hear you have president Barack Obama beating any other contender who wants to be president after him seventy

three percent Biden sixty five he's not even in the race Mr Clinton forty eight percent and Bernie Sanders thirty eight percent what