Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders continued attacking Hillary Clinton’s progressive credentials on Wednesday, reminding voters they made different decisions on backing the Iraq war, taking money from Super PACs and on trade and energy policies.
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Americans from New Hampshire to California should share those candidates’ pleasure, because while the Iowa results winnowed the fields of contenders a bit, they also presented voters in upcoming primaries with a healthy range of choices.
He will also have a confident Marco Rubio chasing him who after his third place surge in Iowa is viewed as a unifying candidate for the Republicans.
He leads polls in New Hampshire, which will hold its primary February 9.
The only solution, he said, was to cancel the result and run the entire contest again. As Rubio said in his own post-Iowa speech, he will unify the party around his candidacy, something I think that neither Trump or Cruz will be able to do.
But Trump didn’t stop there as he leveled other claims against Cruz, including that the Texas senator falsely suggested he supported Obamacare. On CNN Newsroom Wednesday, Baldwin said “when Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here…we reported it accurately”, she said on air. That’s thanks to the complex formula used in Iowa to pick a victor via delegates: The ones decided by the coin flips were county delegates, who make up just a fraction of the state delegates who decide the outcome.
But Mr Trump turned this afternoon, accusing Mr Cruz of lying to and defrauding voters.
“Many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud”, Trump said in one of his tweets. Cruz has apologized for the “mistake”. Both candidates did poorly in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, which were dominated by Mr Cruz’s defeat of Mr Trump. “There are support groups for Twitter addiction, perhaps he should find his local chapter”.
An earlier – and since-deleted – tweet said Cruz “illegally stole” the caucus win.
“The people of Iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment, to the economic establishment, and by the way to the media establishment”, the 74-year-old said.
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Q: What changed on Tuesday afternoon that led the AP to call the race for Clinton?
