In the video posted Saturday, Ivanka Trump explains how voters can determine their caucus location, offering resources through Trump’s campaign website and provided phone numbers.
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If the numbers hold – that is, if Ted Cruz loses by 5 points – the results will be devastating.
Trump also predicted that “many” senators would “soon” endorse him rather than their Texas colleague. Trump did not offer any senators’ names. Rubio, despite rumblings of a surge here, sits in third with 15 percent.
On the Democratic side, Iowa caucus-goers usually make more realistic choices, at least if judged by who eventually secures the party’s nomination. “We are looking forward to four additional debates”, a Sanders campaign source tells BuzzFeed.
Voters aren’t voting for a candidate directly. This contrasts with 45% of the Iowa Republicans who said they could be persuaded to change their minds before Monday night.
A snowfall forecast to start Monday night appeared more likely to hinder the hopefuls in their rush out of Iowa – and to New Hampshire, with its February 9 primary – than the voters. So far, 361 have said they would support Hillary Clinton at the convention.
The rally, a two-hour affair that ended another grueling day of barnstorming Iowa for Cruz, came less than 48 hours before the caucuses.
McCaskill, the Missouri senator, says Sanders is running on “promises that in his gut he’s got to know can’t be kept”.
Joined by Robertson, patriarch of the “Duck Dynasty” clan from Louisiana, Cruz sounded a duck call usually reserved for hunting.
“You can definitely tell – people are getting excited. Because he can’t defend his substantive record”, Cruz said. He attended James Madison High School and Brooklyn College, before transferring to the University of Chicago. That’s why I trust Cruz.
Cruz went on to suggest that maybe one of his guests at the rally, reality TV star Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame, could lure Trump into a one-on-one debate with a duck call.
First, just almost half of likely Republican caucus-goers have a favorable opinion of Trump, while 70 percent like Rubio and 65 percent like Cruz (it being possible to like more than one candidate).
“It is so dishonest. It is so dishonest”, Trump said. Even so, it’s hard to see why the media, the pundit class, or voters in other states would deem a candidate who doesn’t fare well in Iowa as somehow disqualified or mortally wounded. Their heads turned up to the sky at the roar of a Boeing 757 – Donald Trump’s private airplane was coming in for a landing.
“Frankly, I don’t think we can” match 2008, he said Monday. “Marco Rubio’s different, the Republican Obama who championed Obama’s amnesty and led the Gang of Eight”, a reference to failed immigration legislation in 2013 that would have provided a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. “How can we continue to ignore the toll that this is taking on our children and our country?” she shouted, pushing for stricter gun control measures, a goal that has little chance of passage in a Republican-controlled Congress.
“This election has to be about the future”, he said. “Stick with a plan, stick with experience”. Earlier, his campaign said it raised $33 million over the last three months of 2015, compared to $37 million for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the same time period. “I feel ready. I feel strong, and I think I’m the best person to be the nominee and to defeat whoever they nominate in November”.
The Iowa caucuses’ legend was born when a little-known anti-war senator, George McGovern, finished a surprising second then won the nomination – a dark-horse triumph later replicated by Carter and Obama.
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“Well, you tell them that you understand something very profound”, Sanders said, “and that is if you are not fighting for your rights, who’s going to fight for you?” If you can’t do that, he said, don’t speak.
