Cruz, an ulta-conservative Texas Senator, trounced Trump by four per cent in a decisive victory this Monday.
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“These people – I’d like to use really foul language”, Trump said at a campaign rally in Exeter, N.H.
And the man who got the voters turning out in their droves on Monday Donald Trump is definitely putting his shock second place behind him. He operates as his own spin doctor, capable of explaining away any flaw, any loss that defies the former reality TV star’s image as an unstoppable victor – never mind that he threw something of a tantrum and didn’t attend the last Republican presidential debate in Iowa four days before voters went to the polls. Meanwhile Ted Cruz, who came in first in Iowa, has 5 meet-and -greet events in New Hampshire today, Marco Rubio has 4, and the rest of the candidates will be crisscrossing the state as well.
He also called Iowa’s caucus system “much more difficult” and acknowledged that “we could have done much better with the ground game” in the state. Carson was going home, but not to give up his presidential aspirations, just to recharge his batteries before the New Hampshire primary.
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%.
Jeanne Zaino, a professor of political science in NY, said Trump’s outburst was a strategic move created to counter the narrative that he lost in Iowa and that his campaign is beatable.
“Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified”, Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. Democrats were girding for a protracted slugfest between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, locked in a virtual tie.
In 2016, none of the 13 major candidates on the New Hampshire ballot has anything close to “the big ‘mo”, although some of them may have a diminished version of that, “Mini-mo”.
“I think I did very well in Iowa”, Trump said, “especially considering how Ted Cruz got some votes”.
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Sanders’ sizeable lead over Clinton in New Hampshire polls has held steady or increased in recent weeks.
