In that online rant, Trump lashed out at Cruz for his campaign’s role in helping fuel speculation that Ben Carson was pulling out of the race after Monday’s Iowa caucus and said he may file a lawsuit for what he called “fraud” at the hands of Cruz.
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An aide for retired neurosurgeon Carson accused Cruz’s campaign of cheating to win the caucuses, while billionaire developer and reality television star Trump called for “a new election” or nullification of the results, Bloomberg reported.
The inflammatory accusation marked a reversal for Trump, who on Monday night delivered a concession speech thanking Iowans for his second-place finish and congratulating Cruz. Marco Rubio – in the first vote after months of wall-to-wall media coverage raises serious questions about whether showmanship has a winning strategy.
New Hampshire is the second in a series of state-by-state nominating contests to decide who will be each party’s candidate for president in November.
Mr Pate said Mr Cruz’s mailers “misrepresent Iowa election law” and that they were “not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses”, but he stopped short of any official action.
According to a new survey from Public Policy Polling, only four points separate front-runner Donald Trump from Iowa Republican caucus victor Texas Sen. The poll includes interviews with a random sample of 556 adult residents of New Hampshire, including 209 who say they plan to vote in the Republican presidential primary. Mr Rubio is trying to be the Republican establishment’s preferred alternative to Mr Trump or Mr Cruz.
The poll found the most support for Rubio in a theoretical three-man race for the nomination, with 34% picking the Florida senator compared with 33% for Trump and 25% for Cruz. “I couldn’t understand why the polls were wrong”.
“What he did is unthinkable”, said Trump, accusing Cruz of “voter fraud” and being a “fraudulent character”.
“I’m pro-life. He told everybody I was pro-choice”. “It’s so petulant and childish. And I want to congratulate Ted and I want to congratulate all the incredible candidates”, the second-place finisher said.
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But Trump, a man not exactly famous for reminding people there’s no “I” in “team”, got even hotter on Twitter on Wednesday morning before deleting his initial Cruz missile and rewording it.
