This was especially evident Monday in Iowa, where exit poll data showed Sanders had the backing of 84 percent of 17- to 29-year-old Democratic caucusgoers.
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The billionaire, who has never before complained about the money he’s been spending, griped about his unexpected defeat to Texas Sen. “Hillary Clinton has won the Iowa Caucus”, Matt Paul, the Iowa state director for Clinton said in a statement released in the early hours of Tuesday morning. But he said he did not regret it, and said he would change little about his campaign. But it didn’t take long for him to start making a series of excuses for why he came in second. “I came in a strong second”. Ted Cruz defeated him in the Iowa caucuses.
“I got calls from several people who told me their internal intelligence said I was going to do extraordinarily well”, Carson told Fox News. “Some of the press doesn’t want to give it credit”.
The tycoon went on to accuse the Cruz campaign of sending mailers to “thousands” of Iowa voters that were created to look like “voter violation” certificates. I didn’t expect to do so well.
Brad Anderson, an Iowa political consultant who supports Clinton, said Sanders’ supporters had a noticeably easier time conveying their message to undecided voters.
This was a messaging shift for Trump on the poll: He had for months touted polls showing him ahead in Iowa, and criticised The Register’s survey as unreliable when it showed him behind.
“The fact that I introduced one one-sentence amendment to fix one problem in the bill does not mean you get to stick on me all the rest of the problems in the bill, particularly when I was leading the fight against the whole bill”, Cruz said.
Fans interviewed before the rally said Trump’s loss did not bother them.
But Trump insisted he did quite well in Iowa, and accused the media of hypocrisy by going out of its way to tout Sen.
Rubio on Tuesday told supporters in Exeter, “Perhaps no state in the country demands more of candidates than New Hampshire does”.
In attacks posted on his official Twitter account on Wednesday, Trump said “either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified” in Monday’s Iowa contest.
Instead, Trump knocked the media for what he said was over-hyping Rubio’s performance in Iowa.
“They told me I had to wait my turn”, Mr. Rubio said.
He repeated numerous same arguments about his second-place Iowa finish at his subsequent rally in Milford.
The emergence of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who finished a close third, however, keeps the hopes of conventional Republicans alive – that they could stop the nomination of Mr. Cruz and Mr. Trump, both considered insurgents and out of tune with the party’s traditional base.
But when pressed about whether he’d actually file a lawsuit, the real estate mogul sidestepped the question and replied, “The problem with politics, it’s so dishonest”.
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Bush released a two-minute TV ad that featured Trump’s claim that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose votes, and included some of his derogatory comments about McCain’s military service and a reporter with disabilities.
