He mocked the headlines that he said followed.
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“This isn’t a student council election, everybody”.
“Politics is a contact sport with few referees, so torturing your opponents with questions about the transparency of an election can be very harmful and damaging”, said Steffen Schmidt, a longtime political observer and professor at Iowa State University in Ames. “Let’s get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble”. Polling indicated Rubio would be a distant third – an afterthought behind the two candidates expected to duke it out for first: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The rumor that Ben Carson was quitting the race was circulated by Cruz’s camp, and Cruz apologized for it Tuesday.
Starting today, it’s all about New Hampshire.
Donald Trump’s gracious acceptance of his second-place finish in Iowa was short-lived.
While Sanders’ surge of support has taken some by surprise, analysts expect Clinton to still clinch the Democratic nomination not least thanks to her greater support among African Americans and Latinos. That gives Cruz eight delegates for the Republican National Convention. And we’re bringing all that energy and all that excitement, all that determination right here to New Hampshire. Mike Dennehy, a New Hampshire-based GOP strategist, said “this year is different”.
Another slide declared, “Jeb Bush has more Congressional public support than any other candidate”.
That puts enormous pressure on Bush, Kasich and Christie. What I wanted to see is on top of New Hampshire three more debates.
Trump also said Cruz told voters that Trump supported Obamacare – the ultimate sin among Republican voters – which Trump called “a total lie!” Did you know that the Senator from Texas has strong views on Iowa’s fireworks ban?
“You can be a moderate, that’s fine”. “They never voted against anybody from next door except when an incumbent president asked them to do something else”, Clinton said, according to AFP.
“Folks have figured out that Marco is a candidate who connects with voters and who closes strong”, said a senior Rubio campaign official. He was upbeat and said he hoped to replicate his Iowa success in next Wednesday’s primary. But they’re deeply concerned about her struggles with young people, a key part of the coalition that propelled Barack Obama to the White House.
The additional debates will held in Flint, Michigan on March 6, and two other cities in April and May, with details to be determined later. “Vermont shares a media market with New Hampshire, and the voters of New Hampshire have a history of supporting candidates from New England”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wrote in the memo, which was obtained by Politico.
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If you listen very, very quietly you can nearly hear it buzzing just below the surface of the post-Iowa caucus coverage.
