According to the latest Republican primary poll, Sen. Ted Cruz is now leading the pack in Iowa.
In the poll — conducted by Monmouth University — Cruz earned 24 percent of the vote and “his first lead in any early state poll of the 2016 cycle.”
Real estate mogul Donald Trump currently commands second place, garnering 19-percent of the vote.
Ben Carson led the last Iowa poll, yet his numbers plummeted by 19 points in the interim, and he currently sits at 13 percent.
The Monmouth December poll, “was conducted by telephone from December 3 to 6, 2015 with 425 Iowa voters,” and has a 4.8-percent margin of error.