Rubio’s strong third-place performance in Iowa has given him momentum coming into New Hampshire, where he’s battling with Cruz for the second slot in most polls.
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Carson tried to clear up any confusion later Monday night, saying he planned to return to the campaign trail in New Hampshire on Wednesday.
“One of the problems in the global warming debate is that far too much is driven by politics and political agendas”, Cruz told a crowd at New England College in Henniker. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie all hope New Hampshire will breathe life into their flagging campaigns.
Trump and the Carson camp both complained that Cruz campaign workers alerted voters to Carson’s decision to go home for a break after the caucuses, stoking speculation he would drop out.
And from there, Cruz proceeded to unload on Trump.
Campaigning in Goffstown Ted Cruz said that Donald Trump is “losing it” because he can’t handle having been beaten in the Iowa caucus.
Republicans have also come to see it as a four-person race.
Trump took to Twitter two days after the caucuses and accused Sen.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton’s extremely narrow Iowa victory – or “virtual tie”, as many early press reports have called it – has done less to change the way people view the race.
For seven months, businessman Donald Trump held the mantle of Republican presidential frontrunner, confounding widespread expectations that his support would collapse well before GOP voters cast their first ballots. And he doesn’t want you to remember he got silver in Iowa.
Cruz’s campaign said later that they should have sent “around the follow-up statement from the Carson Campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race”.
The joke drew a smattering of chuckles from those present, but Trump was in no laughing mood, tweeting that “based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified”.
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Trump fielded question after question from reporters about why he thought he lost and whether it made him anxious about primary elections in other states ahead of the November 8 presidential election.
