Mr Cruz said the businessman does not like losing and threw a “Trumpertantrum” after coming second in Iowa.
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Trump, who placed second in Iowa, on Wednesday accused Cruz, who won, of stealing the election and called for either a new set of caucuses in Iowa or the results to be nullified. Several social media users tweeted screengrabs of an alleged deleted tweet from Trump’s official account, in which he said Cruz had “illegally” stolen the vote.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated”.
In the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, he held leads in nearly every statewide and national poll though his dominance in Iowa wobbled after Mr Cruz won a key endorsement from a local evangelical Christian leader.
“We simply, as a campaign, repeated what Ben Carson had said in his own words”. Cruz apologized to Carson for misinterpreting a CNN report about Carson going home, rather than straight to New Hampshire, after the caucus.
Cruz – who scored a solid victory in Iowa – was already in trouble for a mobile app message that went out on the night of the Iowa caucus telling recipients that Ben Carson “will stop campaigning after Iowa”. “Also, Cruz sent out a VOTER VIOLATION certificate to thousands of voters”.
“There are support groups for Twitter addiction, perhaps he should find his local chapter”.
Although the state’s voters are not a microcosm of the US electorate, Iowa’s first-in-the-nation test of popular support for the candidates automatically makes it a milestone in the process.
Polls show Mr Sanders leading by double digits in New Hampshire, which neighbours Vermont.
“Some people thought the debate, you know, not doing the debate might have been a positive for perhaps my opponents”, Trump said. “I didn’t devote tremendous time to it”, he said.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is casting her performance in the Iowa caucuses as a win, even though she is separated from rival Bernie Sanders by just a few hundred votes. “And I do think it affected that”. And he doesn’t want you to remember he got silver in Iowa.
