Trump accusations: Cruz ‘illegally stole’ Iowa caucus win

Christie has made the exchange with Ashcraft a staple of his New Hampshire stump speech. Rubio says he’d seek his endorsement, despite Paul’s call for limited USA military engagement overseas. That poll found that Trump had an overwhelming national lead, 34 percent to second-place Cruz at 18 percent. He stopped short of saying that Trump’s loss was the result of the Cruz campaign’s tactics, however, noting that skipping the Fox News debate last week probably hurt him.

“He just doesn’t have any experience”, Christie said Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America.

Rubio gained another three points to reach 15 percent – passing Cruz, who remained steady at 14 percent despite his win in Iowa – to move into second place.

Trump referred to an email that Cruz’s campaign sent on Monday that implied another Republican candidate, Ben Carson, was about to drop out of the race and that his Iowa backers should be urged to vote for the Texan instead.

“He needs to coalesce the vote before he can challenge Trump”, said Republican pollster Greg Strimple, who is unaligned with any of the campaigns.

“I don’t think people are interested in temper tantrums, I don’t think people are interested in insults and attacks”. “That’s a huge component of Donald Trump’s campaign”.

Trump has a chance to reset the narrative in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, which most recent polls show he’s favored to win.

“Reality hit the reality TV star in Iowa, so nobody is talking about him now, so he’s trying to regain some attention on Twitter”, Cruz’s Communications Director Rick Tyler told CNN.

Cruz apologized to Carson on Tuesday and said his team should have also distributed Carson’s statement denying the rumor that he was about to exit the race.

The leading Republicans are sparring over allegations of dirty tricks during the Iowa caucuses.

“I like Ben Carson very much and he got pretty roughed up, frankly”, Trump said.

From left, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Donald Trump and Sen. 11% think Cruz will carry the state, 9% Rubio, with the rest of the field at 1% or less.

The tough response came after Trump unleased a hail of tweets accusing the Texas Republican senator of cheating in the Iowa caucuses – calling for either a new election to be held or the results to be nullified. “I don’t know what’s going to happen with Hillary, she’s got other problems, maybe bigger than the problems she’s got, in terms of nominations, but we’ve had so many different indications, and polls that we beat her, and we beat her easily”, he said. I think Donald-I wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing Donald has tweeted.