Trump wants do-over in Iowa
As a result of their low votes in the Iowa caucus, Democrat Martin O’Malley and Republican Mike Huckabee both suspended their presidential campaigns late on February 1, 2016.
But Trump didn’t stop there as he leveled other claims against Cruz, including that the Texas senator falsely suggested he supported Obamacare.
Republican Ted Cruz may have prevailed in Iowa despite the polls favouring Donald Trump but New Hampshire is quite a different challenge with a more moderate and less religious electorate than the evangelical Cruz would like.
Iowa Republican caucus victor Ted Cruz apologized to Ben Carson and his campaign Tuesday afternoon after a Cruz staffer spread a rumor Monday evening implying that the retired neurosurgeon was suspending his campaign. But the Twitter conversation did reflect a change in the days following the final Des Moines Register poll Saturday that showed Trump reclaiming the lead.
Cruz said after the results: “This is a victory for the grassroots, a victory for the greatest conservatives across Iowa”. Rubio said he would seek to win over voters who supported Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who dropped out of the race Wednesday.
But Mr Trump turned this afternoon, accusing Mr Cruz of lying to and defrauding voters.
Carson, who came in fourth in the Iowa caucuses with 9.3 percent of the vote, accused Cruz of playing “dirty tricks”. But even the short-fingered vulgarian apparently has limits on how far he’ll go: Trump initially tweeted that Cruz “illegaly stole” the caucus, but that missive was promptly deleted.
A third Republican candidate, Ben Carson, had reportedly signalled that he was going to speak early that night in order to fly home to Florida and rest. Tim Tighe, 21-year-old student from New York, was wearing an I Love New York t-shirt, and said he had come out in protest of Mr Cruz’s comments that Donald Trump had “New York values”.
To the beat of country music and the applause of supporters, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz walked into his first New Hampshire event after his big win in Iowa.
“The headline is ‘Winner Of The Night, Marco Rubio!”‘ he shouted at a campaign rally in Milford, N.H. on Tuesday.
Rubio’s been making that case against Cruz for weeks, most recently charging that a controversial mailer sent out by his campaign pressuring Iowans to vote based on their past voting records and that of their neighbors was “desperate” and part of that tendency to say or do anything to get ahead.
When Gallagher asked Cruz if he was angry about his campaign officials’ actions, the Texas senator replied, “Well, look, I was disappointed that an impression had been left that was incomplete”.