Jeb Bush released a commercial in which he called Trump a man of “deep insecurity and weakness”. Governor Chris Christie sarcastically called him “Donald the Magnificent”.
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Billionaire Minnesota broadcast executive Stanley Hubbard is Exhibit A. He’d previously expressed interest in giving heavily to groups helping Bush, Rubio or another GOP contender who can beat Trump and Cruz.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who placed third among the Republicans in Iowa, said he will try to persuade some of Rand Paul’s supporters to redirect their support to him, despite the stark differences the two have on foreign policy.
Hillary Clinton is striking back Wednesday at accusations by her Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders that she is only a progressive “some days”.
If Hillary Clinton was disappointed in anyway about her razor thin margin of victory in Iowa last night she was not letting on. Next is New Hampshire on February 9.
The Democratic race was so close in that tellers in six precincts were forced to toss coins to decide the result.
Donald Trump has admitted his decision to boycott the final Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses may have cost his campaign.
Trump has been leading the Republican polls in New Hampshire, which has historically favoured more moderate candidates than Iowa. The candidate began firing off Tweet after Tweet, calling for a new Iowa caucus and accusing Cruz of stealing votes from Carson (and by proxy, from himself). Late in the afternoon, Trump’s campaign announced he had won the endorsement of Scott P. Brown, the former MA senator now living in New Hampshire.
As the Washington Post reported, the debates will take place in the battleground state of New Hampshire this week, followed by Flint, Michigan in March, Pennsylvania in April, and California in May. “I would like to finish first”. “We knew each other, obviously, in NY”.
Sanders holds a solid lead in polls there and has the advantage of being from Vermont; candidates from neighbouring states have won the state’s primary in recent decades, and Sanders is admired in the state.
The determination to take on Mr Trump transcends the different political camps on the Republican side in New Hampshire.
At her caucus night party here, Clinton sought to put the best face on a tight result that had almost half of Democrats voting against her. “As I stand here tonight breathing a big sigh of relief – thank you, Iowa!” she said, joined on stage by Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea.
Coming off his defeat in Iowa, it might be Trump who needs rescuing. She said she and Sanders share numerous same ideals as wells as the priority preventing Republican from regaining the White House.
Clinton is being careful with the expectations game, knowing that a Monday poll had Bernie Sanders up by 30 points.
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Mr Kasich acknowledged at a stop in Claremont on Tuesday that he could not afford a lopsided loss in the state. “I didn’t expect to do so well”, Trump declared, despite predicting a “tremendous victory” on Monday hours before Iowans headed to the caucuses that would ultimately crown Cruz the victor. Asked by a disability advocate about Trump’s mockery of a New York Times reporter with a disability, Rubio went relatively easy.
