Trump Says Iowa Caucus Results ‘Very Unfair’

“I’m not thinking about Iowa, I’m thinking about New Hampshire”, Trump said while lamenting the caucus system.

Christie and Rubio, along with Jeb Bush and John Kasich, are jockeying to become the preferred alternative to outsiders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the GOP race. Marco Rubio, who finished a close third behind Trump. Trailing them are three governors whose campaigns have not lit up the GOP’s restless and disaffected grass roots.

For a young, fresh-faced, new presidential candidate, the charge of being unprepared is tough to overcome.

One other thing about the morning-after media attention was that the GOP contenders had to share it with their counterparts on the Democratic side.

“I think it’ll make a difference”, she said of his debate performance on Saturday.

The day after making headlines in the final Republican debate before the New Hampshire primary with blistering attacks on Marco Rubio, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie kept up the offensive as he pushes for a strong finish in a state he made crucial to his uphill campaign.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, left, hands a copy of her book back to an audience member after autographing it at a campaign event at Maple Avenue Elementary School Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, in Goffstown, N.H. He won the night, if not the vote, in Iowa with some well-executed stagecraft, appearing before Cruz got to claim victory and acting as though he were the victor. They mocked the way he responded to charges that he’s just as inexperienced as Barack Obama by saying that Obama is actually very smart and talented but using it for the wrong aims.

“As far as that message, I hope they keep running it and I’m going to keep saying because it’s true”, Rubio said. “We’ll know on the 10th – look, we’re going to do very well”.

“Do you really want to spread lies?” the staffer scolded. That would put some wind at his back heading into what is likely to be a raucous primary in SC on February 20.

Brit Hume sounded like he might cry as he talked about the debate hurt Marco Rubio in New Hampshire and beyond after he had been, “so fluid a coherent”. What lurks beneath the hoopla of the candidacy is the reality of GOP voters’ resistance to him becoming the party’s nominee.

“The whole race changed last night”, he told CNN. It was that skill that vaulted him to the top of the polls.

“That was not a good moment for you, was it?” Overall he did not command the stage. Marco Rubio was widely acknowledged to have stumbled in the debate, while Govs.

He’d been calling Rubio “the boy in the bubble” for the past few weeks. Today there is considerable resistance to his candidacy among those elites and many rank-and-file Republicans. Trump quipped the catcalls were coming from “donors and special interests”, the only people who could get tickets to the high profile debate. His followers are intensely loyal. “I thought he’s having an off night and everyone has an off night once in a while”.

There was a little-noticed finding in the last Des Moines Register-Bloomberg Politics poll in Iowa a week ago.

That represents a flashing yellow light for Trump.

“Ted Cruz had the greatest ground game we’ve ever seen in Iowa”.

They contend that Iowa was never a natural fit for him, and that he was still able to turn out the second most caucus-goers of all time behind only Cruz, who set the record.

In that state, Cruz had been seen as a favorite and other evangelical candidates, such as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Sen. He said something even more fatal. Can he prosper in states where the share of evangelicals is below 45 percent or 50 percent? It explains Bush and Christie’s unofficial, temporary détente, too. They now have just two days to capitalize. In fact, it’s the nation’s first primary and the next in a series of clues into what Americans want in their next president.