NH poll: Trump on top, Rubio in second

Mr Pate said Mr Cruz’s mailers “misrepresent Iowa election law” and that they were “not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses”, but he stopped short of any official action.

In the Republican race, the libertarian-leaning Paul finished in fifth place in Iowa with 4.5 per cent of the vote.

Cruz’s campaign dismissed Trump’s claims with humor. They concluded then – before the Iowa caucuses – that 44 percent would vote in the Republican primary, 35 percent would vote in the Democratic primary and another 21 percent weren’t sure what they would do.

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.

“The Voter Violation certificate gave poor marks to the unsuspecting voter (grade of F) and told them to clear it up by voting for Cruz”, Trump tweeted.

Emboldened by Donald J Trump’s defeat in the Iowa caucuses, conservative leaders and rival candidates for the Republican presidential nomination began to challenge him aggressively in New Hampshire on Tuesday, aiming to cut into his wide lead here and perhaps even to embarrass him by denying him victory in a second consecutive state. Two-thirds of likely Republican primary voters describe his second-place finish in Iowa as more of a “temporary setback” than a sign of serious trouble for his campaign. 29% now expect Marco Rubio to be the nominee, following the Florida senator’s surprisingly strong finish in Iowa.

Asked if he will file a complaint with the Secretary of State’s office in Iowa, Trump told Herald Radio, “I probably will. What he did is unthinkable”.

An aide for retired neurosurgeon Carson accused Cruz’s campaign of cheating to win the caucuses, while billionaire developer and reality television star Trump called for “a new election” or nullification of the results, Bloomberg reported.

“There was no dirty trick”, Tyler said on CNN.

“So far in New Hampshire, it’s all Sanders as Clinton faces an uphill fight”, said pollster Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “When they said Ben Carson is out of the race and come vote for him, I thought it was awful”.

Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are seeing challengers push into their New Hampshire primary leads, according to a new poll from The Boston Globe and Suffolk University. Cruz’s team hit back by telling Trump to seek help for addiction to the social media site.