Ted Cruz Goes To Gun Range, Poll Shows Trump With 20-Point Lead

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is holding a campaign event at a gun range in Iowa today, two days after the deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. It’s just one of the ways the shooting has affected the 2016 presidential race.

In other 2016 news, a CNN/ORC poll out today shows Donald Trump with a commanding 20-point lead over Cruz, his nearest competitor.

Kay Henderson, news director of Radio Iowa, and Jesse Holland, part of the AP politics team, join Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan for our weekly look at the race for 2016.

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Guests

• O. Kay Henderson, news director at Radio Iowa. She tweets @okayhenderson.
• Jesse Holland, race, ethnicity and demographics writer for the Associated Press and part of the AP politics team. He tweets @jessejholland and also manages @AP_Politics and @AP_Courtside.

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