Ted Cruz is the first Hispanic candidate to win a presidential caucus

Ted Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucuses, calling for a redo or for the results to be nullified.

Donald Trump said he’s proud of his second-place finish in the Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa but skipping the Fox News debate and his inexperience with mobilizing voters on the ground hurt his campaign.

Analysts say the billionaire businessman failed to turn support among blue-collar workers into votes. This is unlikely to help him in liberal-leaning New Hampshire, where Messrs Trump and Rubio are now the favourites.

The results of Monday night’s Iowa Causes were close on both sides.

His tally – just above 24 per cent, for second place after Cruz and just ahead of Senator Marco Rubio – in the first vote after months of wall-to-wall media coverage raises serious questions about whether showmanship has a winning strategy.

Hours before the end of the Iowa caucuses, three Republican candidates had already assembled in New Hampshire to rally their supporters for the primary next week.

“It’s a much different thing to go out and turn out voters on a cold night in Iowa or New Hampshire than it is to attract them to a Trump extravaganza where he provides entertainment for 90 minutes”, Cantor said.

What this does for Rubio is makes him the only viable option for more mainstream, establishment Republicans. 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 is the source of two-thirds of his campaign’s fundraising, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

The political meme of the moment suggests that Hillary Clinton narrowly edged out her Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucus due to six consecutive coin tosses wins.

In another tweet, Trump said Cruz had lied about his opinion of President Barack Obama’s healthcare program.

Cruz has consolidated conservatives in the state, including the quarter of the state’s GOP voters who are evangelical.

“I don’t think I get any credit for self-funding my campaign”, he said. It’s also important that the population of Iowa (and other early primary states like New Hampshire) are overwhelmingly White and not reflective of the greater population of the U.S.