Trump Accuses Cruz of Stealing Iowa Caucuses

“We began the political revolution not just in Iowa, not just in New Hampshire, but all over this country”, a hoarse Sanders told supporters in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

The Sanders campaign had initially said that it would participate in Thursday’s debate only if Clinton agreed to three additional debates in March, April and May.

The contenders arrived in the northeastern state and quickly scattered for a blitz of campaign rallies and television interviews.

Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in Monday’s Iowa caucuses but Sanders has a solid lead in New Hampshire. “We’re in this for the long haul”, he told reporters as his plane flew through the night to the season’s second showdown. Turnout was relatively high for the Iowa Democratic caucuses, which Sanders had said he would need to win.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he came second in the Iowa Caucus.

“In fact, I guess in terms of money per vote I’m about at the bottom”, he said referencing a Washington Post article that found his campaign spent less money per vote received in Iowa than any other Republican candidate.

During primetime of the Iowa Caucus, Cruz put out a release that @RealBenCarson was quitting the race, and to caucus (or vote) for Cruz.

Cruz won the Republican Iowa caucuses with 28 percent of the vote compared with 24 percent for businessman Trump, whose aggressive and unorthodox campaign has been marked by controversies ranging from his calls to ban Muslims temporarily from entering the United States to his pledge to build a wall along the US-Mexican border.

Trump’s Twitter reaction to his Iowa showing strayed significantly from his public comments on several morning TV shows Wednesday and at a rally on Tuesday night. New Hampshire holds its primary next week.

For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton was seeking to turn a narrow victory in Iowa over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders into some momentum.

He easily surpasses Clinton in Granite State polls and lives in a neighboring state, but she fares much better among minority voters, who will make up more of the electorate in upcoming contests. Rubio’s campaign announced the endorsement of South Carolina Sen.

When he took the stage before more than a thousand people, Trump’s swagger had returned.

Despite plans to camp out in New Hampshire, Clinton’s campaign is also already looking ahead to Nevada and SC, the next two early voting states.

He concluded by calling for a redo of the caucuses or for Cruz’s win to be ruled invalid.

I ended up coming in second. “Great honor”, Trump tweeted.

Rubio’s advisers cast the Republican race as a three-man contest – an attempt to box out the other contenders vying for support among mainstream Republicans.

For all the talk about Cruz and Trump, Marco Rubio is the bookies’ favourite to get the Republican nomination.

Two of them, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, wasted no time Tuesday, intensifying their hits on Rubio, a first-term Florida senator, over his lack of executive experience (Bush) and his disavowing comprehensive-immigration reform he had sponsored in the Senate (Christie). “At the end of the day, we still have a lot of work that we can do here in the next week”.

Voters in the state of Iowa delivered a clear message to the United States’ political class on Monday night, with a significant number backing anti-establishment candidates, shaking up the Democratic and Republican presidential races.