Donald Trump wants Iowa rematch, accusing Cruz of ‘fraud’

“People didn’t talk about my second place [finish]”, he said. “I think we’ll get a lot of Sanders’ voters”.

Donald Trump’s gracious acceptance of his second-place finish in Iowa was short-lived.

Trump tweeted Wednesday: “Ted Cruz 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”.

In this January 7, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flashes thumbs up after an address to a group of supporters at a campaign stop at the Flynn Center of the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont.

Lord also pointed out that Trump, perhaps unexpectedly, somewhat split the evangelical vote with Sen.

The Kentucky senator was the second Republican candidate, behind former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, to drop out of the race since Monday’s night’s Iowa caucuses.

Trump took to Twitter two days after the caucuses and accused Sen.

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“Many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud”, Trump wrote, suggesting the efforts may have given Cruz a winning edge.

“Ted Cruz gave us Obamacare”, said Mr Trump of the health insurance scheme so despised by Republicans, which in fact prompted Mr Cruz and other conservatives to shut down the government in 2013. Ted Cruz (Texas) participate in the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum Jan. 14. It’s a given that she’ll lose New Hampshire next week, but after that her campaign should be rescued by a number of primaries and caucuses in more friendly states, including South Carolina, Nevada, Alabama, Arkansas, Massachsetts and Minnesota. Trump is now saying it cost him the caucus win that was supposed to be his – according to polls.

“Unfortunately, they did not then forward the subsequent story, that was Ben’s campaign clarifying that he was continuing the campaign and was not canceling the campaign”, Cruz said.

“I won’t worry about it yet”, Christie said in a news conference at a state legislative office building.

Cruz also used #Trumpertantrum on social media, where the term was the third leading national trend on Twitter Wednesday evening.