“For a guy known for making bombastic, off-the-wall speeches, Donald Trump’s Iowa speech was something genuinely new: a conventional concession speech”, Timothy B. Lee wrote on Vox.
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A CNN/MRU poll shows that a whopping 31% of New Hampshire GOP primary voters before the Iowa caucus would never vote for Trump, a metric that has now jumped to 37%.
Former President Jimmy Carter surprised reporters in London Wednesday by saying he would choose Donald Trump over Ted Cruz to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, “which may surprise some of you”.
On Monday night, Cruz’s campaign noticed a report from CNN that said Carson was going to head home to Florida for a few days and aides interpreted the story as he was pulling out of the presidential race. “At no point did the network indicate Dr. Carson would suspend his campaign”. The next caucus takes place in New Hampshire on February 8.
Carson harshly criticized Cruz campaign for spreading misleading information.
“Shameless tactics & dirty political plays defined yesterdays #iacaucus”, he said, using a popular hashtag to refer to the voting.
“There is no place for this kind of behavior”, he added. Trump, who campaigns heavily on poll results, failed to overcome rival Cruz, though.
He also accused him of lying to “thousands of caucus-goers that Trump was strongly in favor of ObamaCare”.
Trump and Cruz appear together at a rally protesting the Iran nuclear deal in September.
Several polls leading up to Monday’s caucuses – including one from the Des Moines Register – pegged Trump as the victor for the Republican Party in the first round of votes. But his supporters defended their candidate, saying that his accusations against Cruz were accurate and justified. New Hampshire. We love New Hampshire.
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Last week – before the results in Iowa, where Cruz finished first and Rubio third – Trump was at 31 percent, Cruz 12 percent, Rubio 11 percent, Kasich 11 percent, Bush 8 percent and Christie 7 percent.
