Trump on Cruz: ‘They’re going to sue his ass up’

That poll found Trump, at 34%, maintaining a large national lead over both Cruz (18 percent) and Rubio (13 percent).

Ted Cruz speaks at New England College on February 3 in Henniker, N.H.

The New York business man accused the Ted Cruz campaign of fraudulent activities during the Iowa caucuses, after controversial voter mailers and reports that Cruz staffers lied to caucus goers by indicating Dr. Ben Carson was dropping out in order to gain votes for Cruz.

A University of MA poll out Wednesday showed the bombastic billionaire leading in the Granite State with 38% support among likely GOP voters, with Cruz and Marco Rubio in a distant second and third, with 14% and 12% respectively. “These media people. They say Trump humiliated, Rubio is the victor”, Mr. Trump said, pointing at the media enclosure at the back of the auditorium. “I think he’s done pretty well from the start”, said Mr Eli Johnson, 33, from nearby Brookline, New Hampshire.

Importantly, voters are not ready to count Donald Trump out.

He also questioned why Marco Rubio was hailed as “surging” for his third-place finish.

“I don’t think he has any fixed (positions) he’d go the White House and fight for”.

“The caucus system is a complex system that I was never familiar with”, Trump said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.

The American people are not interested in Trump’s “circus sideshow of insults”, he said. The former secretary of state and first lady defeated Sanders by less than three-tenths of 1 per cent, the closest result in Iowa Democratic caucus history, the state party said.

Carson came in a distant fourth in Iowa and falls to last among the remaining Republicans in most New Hampshire polls. The tweet, which appeared on the tycoon’s official Twitter page, said: “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any why he got more votes than anticipated”.

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie holds a townhall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on January 24, 2016. “That’s a big factor and therefore I’m going to vote for him.’ And yet it is a big factor”.