Bernie Sanders looks to New Hampshire after Iowa loss: We have ‘momentum’

The question burned late into the night: Who won the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?

A decision in this regard was taken by the newly formed “Indian Americans for Trump 2016” – a political action committee – at its meeting in New Jersey on Tuesday. Trump said that is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Cruz apologized to Carson on Tuesday for his campaign not sending out updates that Carson was doing laundry and not dropping out.

In the hours after the Iowa caucus, Donald Trump was courteous and somewhat subdued in his concession speech and tweeted a string of surprisingly reflective explanations for his second-place finish there. That seems to be happening: As well as the candidates already mentioned, polls in New Hampshire indicate Republicans Jeb Bush and John Kasich could show more life in the primary there February 9.

In an statement, Mr. Cruz praised Mr. Carson and appeared to acknowledge his team had erred.

The retired neurosurgeon, who said his fourth-place performance in Iowa would have been better had the email never been sent, criticized the move as “a dirty trick” and said the Cruz campaign should face some kind of consequences.

But any humility was fleeting as Trump went on to say he beat Rubio by getting support from nearly 3,000 Iowans – “That’s a lot of people” – and that he had gotten a larger percentage of support than any other Republican candidate in history “except for that one number”, he added, referring to Cruz’s win.

“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Trump tweeted Wednesday morning in the opening salvo of a series of tweets eviscerating Cruz.

Trump doesn’t like to share the spotlight and the Cruz flap has helped him figure out a way to get back on the front page.

That, Trump said, equated to voter fraud.

During an interview on Boston Herald Radio, the Manhattan mogul accused Cruz of committing voter fraud in order to win the Iowa Republican caucus.

Earlier on Wednesday, Paul became the second Republican to drop out of the race since the Iowa caucuses, behind former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

“I do not know any progressive that has a Super Pac and takes $15 million from Wall Street”, Sanders said.