Trump Demands New Caucus in Iowa, Accuses Cruz of Fraud

Donald Trump managed to be gracious in defeat after coming second in the Iowa Caucus… until now.

It was a dig aimed at Donald Trump who accused Cruz via Twitter of fraud, and stealing the Iowa caucuses.

Trump, a flamboyant political novice, wrote a Twitter message alleging that Cruz, a conservative firebrand, “didn’t win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated”.

Election ads sponsored by Mr Cruz and his allies included old footage of Mr Trump supporting women’s right to an abortion and saying that state-backed healthcare is necessary.

But Mr Trump turned this afternoon, accusing Mr Cruz of lying to and defrauding voters. “Bet they’d love #TrumpCare”, Cruz tweeted. “It’s clear that there were people who tried to take advantage of a situation, who tried to distort information”, Carson said. Third, the AP vote count, which tabulates all actual votes as they are reported from precincts to counties, or towns or parishes.

The billionaire then hastily deleted his tweet, only to repost his words after correcting an error and taking out “illegally”. Ted Cruz of Texas in the Monday-night Iowa caucuses.

The network’s reporting-that Carson would make a trip to Florida before resuming his campaign-came as voters in Iowa were preparing to make the first solid votes of the 2016 campaign.

CNN reported Monday that Carson would go to Florida instead of New Hampshire or SC immediately after the caucuses to take a “deep breath” and get clean clothes.

Carson said the Monday comment amounted to “dirty tricks”. Carson finished a distant fourth with 9 percent of the vote. Cruz later apologized for the email. “I think it did, yes”, he said today at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “I was getting a lot of intelligence from a lot of different places saying I was going to do extraordinarily well. It was based on public news reports, and so some of the media folks who want to use it to impugn integrity are deliberately using it in a misleading way”.

Mr Trump also cited Cruz leaflets that accused Iowans of “voting violations”.

Even if Trump could demonstrate that the Cruz campaign’s comments affected the outcome of the caucus, he’d still have to prove that Cruz had intentionally engaged in wrongdoing, according to the professor.