Cruz, who in December vowed to “carpet bomb” Islamic State into oblivion, adding that “I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark but we are going to find out”, said the result was a rebuke to what he called President Obama’s liberal agenda and a win for “Judaeo-Christian values”. Marco Rubio. Heading into next week’s New Hampshire primary, Trump’s campaign is not quite on life support, but it has lost its inevitability and most of its swagger. There was little time to celebrate or sulk, the remaining candidates quickly shifted focus to next week’s vote in New Hampshire.
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But Trump insisted that he did quite well in Iowa and accused the media of hypocrisy by going out of its way to tout Sen.
While Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the polls, had been touting his large fan base in Iowa, the real estate mogul was eclipsed by Cruz, who took 27.7 percent of the vote to his 24.3 percent, with Florida Sen.
“Hillary Clinton has won the Iowa Caucus”. His caucus night party in West Des Moines likewise had empty space, and a crowd that booed CNN’s declaration of Cruz’s victory, but was otherwise subdued.
Yes, Mr Sanders did very well against a political giant, but Iowa is arguably Sanders-friendly territory having more liberal Democrats and a white population. However, Butts said Trump does have an advantage because he can afford to fund his own campaign.
Trump vowed to keep up his fight, telling cheering supporters that “we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up”. In his concession speech that day, Trump painted his second-place showing as better than expected compared to where he was when he launched his campaign last summer.
And the man who got the voters turning out in their droves on Monday Donald Trump is definitely putting his shock second place behind him.
Many conservatives love Cruz and hate Rubio, but they might be making a mistake by throwing their support behind Cruz.
Trump also said there was a chance his decision to skip a Fox News debate among Republican candidates on Thursday might have hurt him in the caucuses.
On the other side, the Texas Democrats echoed the same excitement for a competitive primary come March 1.
Diaz said he considered the results in Iowa potentially “troubling” for Clinton supporters, and he suggested that the caucus served as a boost to Sanders’ campaign.
Hillary Clinton claimed the first victory in the Democratic presidential race with the narrowest of victories over Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucus.
In such a delegate-rich state, Butts said the competition will heat up as Texans prepare to cast their ballots. Republican candidates Rand Paul (4.5%) and Jeb Bush (2.8%) each earned one delegate, while Carly Fiorina (1.9%), John Kasich (1.9%), Mike Huckabee (1.8%), Chris Christie (1.8%), Rick Santorum (1%), and Jim Gilmore (0%) did not earn any delegates.
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