“We’ve got to win Iowa, oh we’ve got to win it, otherwise we’re wasting our time”, he said.
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By The Associated Press He thought his story was movie material.
Trump today made it sound like he’s concerned and just wants to help out Cruz, but Wallace noted that “people say you’re trolling him” and rather than helping, he’s “sticking in the knife”. In fact, some people say, ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter if you win Iowa.’ Now, don’t let them talk to you that way. “He’s from Texas, I guess that makes sense”, Trump said.
“I don’t think there’s a sense it’ll be time to panic if Cruz and Trump are on top in Iowa or New Hampshire”, said Katie Packer, who served as deputy campaign manager to Mitt Romney in 2012 and is among Trump’s biggest critics.
Belinda Smith-Cicarella, a 42-year-old finance professor at Buena Vista University, said she firmly supports Trump but is unsure whether she’ll caucus.
Speaking to reporters at the conclusion of his 28-county bus tour in Waverly, Iowa, on Saturday night, Cruz said candidates such as Trump are “dismayed” by his success in the polls and raising questions about his citizenship to avoid substantive debates about the future of the country. The father of the senator from Texas was born in Cuba.
“I haven’t seen this large of a division in my career”, said Sen. The feud escalated Saturday as Trump lashed out at Cruz on multiple fronts before a packed auditorium in Iowa. Hundreds more spilled into an atrium where they watched a live video feed of Trump’s speech. Who knows if it will last, but for now he is doing what they said they wanted to do, expanding the pool of voters. “You come here, you have the humility to stand before the men and women of this state and answer your questions”.
Trump typically holds a single major rally, then departs.
In saying he thinks Graham is qualified, the former candidate broke with his political partner, Sen.
A group backing Kasich put $15,000 into an online anti-Trump attack in late November and early December, but there was no special focus on Iowa.
But Lars Johnson, a retired chiropractor who lives near Decorah, Iowa, said he wasn’t concerned that Trump was sticking to massive rallies.
Trump questioned Cruz’s position on ethanol subsidies and hinted at the ongoing discussion surrounding Cruz’s US citizenship.
Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth and is thus a “natural born Citizen” within the meaning of the Constitution.
Cruz has said he has no interest in getting into a war of words with Trump.
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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said that he would implement a so-called “deportation force” in order to find and deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. Jeb Bush got 9 percent, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 7 percent, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Paul got 5 percent each, Carson at 4 percent and Carly Fiorina at 3 percent.
