Donald Trump to Ted Cruz: You stole Iowa

Trump, who campaigns heavily on poll results, failed to overcome rival Cruz, though.

Cruz’s appearance in SC – which doesn’t hold its primary for another three weeks – instead of New Hampshire, which votes next Tuesday, is for a reason: the Cruz gameplan relies on him besting Donald Trump here.

Talking Points has a message for Senator Sanders – nobody was astounded, Bernie, all the polls said you would compete very well in Iowa.

“Will not be chosen by the lobbyists, but will be chosen by the most incredible, powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in this nation, by we, the people”. His next closest competitor is Marco Rubio, with 11.8% support.

Ted Cruz, the Republican victor of the Iowa caucuses who is a 16/1 outsider to replace Barack Obama as president later this year, mentioned Denmark as part of some rather unflattering remarks about his outspoken competitor, Donald Trump.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves after speaking at his caucus night rally in Iowa.

Also, polling puts Sanders ahead in New Hampshire – nothing astounding about that either.

“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Trump (@realDonaldTrump) tweeted.

After leading in almost all of the polls heading into the Iowa caucus, the GOP frontrunner took in 24.3% of the vote to Mr Cruz’ 27.7%.

He also claimed that Mr Cruz’s campaign sent out a notification to Iowans warning that not caucusing on Monday would be a violation.

Trump said he could have used a “better ground game” – generally defined in politics as an organization to get out the vote – but he said it was a term he wasn’t even familiar with until he started his first political campaign.

“And finally, Cruz strongly told thousands of caucusgoers (voters) that Trump was strongly in favour of ObamaCare and “choice” – a total lie!” he said.

“I don’t think T’s meltdown today is helping his campaign”, he told AFP.

The latest skirmish between Cruz and Trump comes as the two are battling for the top spot in the New Hampshire primary, with Trump having a sizable lead.