DAVID DRUCKER: “Round one in the battle of anti-Establishment Republican presidential candidates goes to Sen. Ted Cruz.”

Related: Hillary Slipping Against . . . Entire Republican Field. “In head-to-head matchups, every Republican candidate effectively ties her in Colorado and almost all Republicans effectively tie her in Iowa.”

Plus: “Hillary Clinton’s favorable rating from the American public currently stands at 48%, which is similar to her 50% reading last month, but is down from 55% last summer and from 59% a year ago… Not only is this Clinton’s weakest favorable rating of the past year, but it is the lowest since 2008 when she was competing in that year’s Democratic primary elections.”

Don’t get cocky, kids.

Also: Journalistic white-knighting and Rand Paul interviews: “Cillizza appears to see his female colleagues as the weaker sex in desperate need of his macho mansplanatory wonkery.”