Ted Cruz: Donald is throwing a ‘Trumpertantrum’

Donald Trump has accused fellow Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz of comitting “fraud” during the Iowa caucuses, and has called for a rematch.

The endorsement from Brown, a popular GOP figure in New England who also has many fans among the Republican establishment, could prove a significant boost to Trump a week before voters in the Granite State go to the polls. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are tied nationally at 21 percent and the rest of the field, with the exception of Dr. Ben Caron with 11 percent, sit in single digits just days before the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary. The Texas senator fired back, questioning the controversial real estate mogul’s sanity.

Carson, meanwhile, added fuel to the debate as he escalated accusations Wednesday that Cruz supporters spread false rumors on caucus night that he was suspending his campaign.

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.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, during a campaign event at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa.

Trump, who was leading in the last polls in Iowa, with the Des Moines Register poll released on January 31 showing him with 28 percent of the vote, ended up with 24.3 percent, with 23.1 percent for Rubio. Ted Cruz got the most Iowa caucus votes with 27.7%. Sanders enters the primary with a double-digit lead over Clinton in the polls in a state that Clinton won in the 2008 primary.

Trump said this in an interview on Boston Herald Radio, that was flagged by BuzzFeed.

While Carson only indirectly criticized Cruz, his longtime adviser Armstrong Williams was blunt: “He cheated”.

“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”. “I ended up coming in second”.

“We need someone with judgment and the temperament to keep this country safe”, Cruz continued. On Tuesday night in New Hampshire, he told reporters he was “very happy with what happened in Iowa”.

“He has said really outlandish things in the past and none of them have really hurt him in the polls”.