The real estate mogul made the sensational accusations on Twitter, telling his 6 million followers that the first-time senator from Texas had committed fraud in the first caucus of the 2016 United States presidential election.
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In the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, two anti-establishment candidates, had dominated the polls in the state while Rubio lagged well behind.
Ted Cruz of stealing his first-place victory and calling for Cruz’s win to be nullified or for a new Iowa vote to take place. Rubio exceeded expectations with a robust third-place showing in Iowa, finishing just one percentage point behind Trump.
It’s the final debate before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, and Donald Trump is rejoining his Republican presidential rivals on the stage.
After leading in almost all of the polls heading into the Iowa caucus, the GOP frontrunner took in 24.3% of the vote to Mr Cruz’ 27.7%.
Listening to his father push his credentials as a Republican front-runner, Marco Rubio’s boy Dominick couldn’t stop himself from giving a large yawn while his father was mid-speech. “So I don’t think this is going to hurt him so much and he’s attacking someone whose not wildly popular even in his own party”, said Zaino, in reference to Cruz.
“A win is a win”, he said.
Carson thinks this dirty political trick cost him votes.
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.
Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, who attended Mr Trump’s most recent wedding in 2005, has distanced herself from the Donald in an interview with People.
“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…”
At another campaign event in Arkansas on Wednesday night, Mr Trump jabbed at his opponent, claiming that he was dishonest and helped push for the confirmation of United States supreme court chief justice John Roberts, who voted for president Barack Obama’s healthcare law.
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Cruz repeatedly raised the prospect that Trump could decide to skip the next GOP debates in SC and in New Hampshire because he found them “stupid”, a term the real-estate magnate once memorably used to describe Iowans attracted to Carson’s campaign.
