If Trump can get a win in New Hampshire it may help him regain his momentum, but if Cruz can get a second win in a major area it may spell the end for many candidates.
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That’s not quite how the story was shared by the Cruz campaign, which spread word in Iowa that Carson seemed to be suspending his campaign.
Cruz took his critique of Trump’s maturity a step further, comparing the reactionary Trump to his own daughters.
Trump also ripped Cruz over a controversial campaign mailer that aimed to get Iowans to the polls by claiming they had committed “violations”.
Carson came in a distant fourth in Iowa and falls to last among the remaining Republicans in most New Hampshire polls.
But the real winners of the Iowa caucus were Marco Rubio on the Republican side and Bernie Sanders on the Democrat side.
A new national survey just released by Public Policy Polling shows that although Donald Trump is still the national frontrunner, he’s lost significant support among the GOP field since coming in at second place in Iowa Monday.
Donald Trump went on the offensive Wednesday, accusing Republican rival Ted Cruz of stealing victory in Iowa as he sought to burnish his standing ahead of next week’s primary voting in New Hampshire.
A previous tweet from Mr Trump accused the Cruz campaign of telling Iowa voters that Ben Carson was quitting the race so he could steal Mr Carson’s votes.
“Ted Cruz proved he could successfully beat back Trump attacks because he had a great ground game and identified well with evangelical voters”. On that basis, Trump called for Cruz’s win in Iowa to be nullified and the election done over.
Iowa caucusgoers are multiple locations told the Des Moines Register that Cruz representatives who gave speeches announced Carson was suspending his campaign.
“I think it could have been the debate”, Trump, who finished second behind Ted Cruz, said during a news conference in Milford, N.H., on Tuesday.
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Trump, though, has insisted that the uncertainty swirling around Cruz’s eligibility – largely stoked by Trump on the campaign trail – would make Republicans vulnerable should Cruz become the party’s nominee. “What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out”.
