Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was full of it after he blamed the cable channel for his snafu with Republican rival Ben Carson during the night of the Iowa caucus.
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The allegation comes a day-and-a-half after Trump gave a gracious concession speech following the Iowa caucus, and less than a day after he conceded he spent little campaign money there.
Now, Trump is accusing Cruz of fraud and calling for a new election, but GOP strategists said Wednesday that won’t happen.
Campaigning in Goffstown Ted Cruz said that Donald Trump is “losing it” because he can’t handle having been beaten in the Iowa caucus.
Trump also accused Cruz’s team on Twitter of sending out a mailer created to look like an official electoral document to scare Iowa voters into turning out at the caucuses.
Polls put Mr Trump firmly ahead among Republican voters in New Hampshire, but analysts warn that anything less than a win there will further damage his campaign message that he is a victor.
“Reality just hit the reality star – he lost Iowa and now nobody is talking about him, so he’s popping off on Twitter”, Mr Cruz’s communications director Rick Tyler told Politico in an email. A Cruz spokesperson suggested he seek help for “Twitter addiction”. Marco Rubio. The poll found that nationally, Trump’s support has fallen to 25 percent, while Cruz and Rubio are tied with 21 percent each.
That has irked Carson and his team, who has said the decision by the Cruz team to share only part of the CNN report was a dirty political maneuver. He said on Fox News he was suspending his run and called Rubio a “born leader”.
Trump and Cruz are going head-to-head for voters in New Hampshire, where Cruz’s evangelical Christian credentials will not be as helpful as they were in Iowa.
As the candidates barrel toward New Hampshire, which holds the first primary next Tuesday, early signs have shown Rubio climbing there in the wake of his Iowa performance. Mr Santorum, who won the 2012 Iowa Caucus, attracted just one per cent this time around.
“He said obviously he didn’t know that people were doing this kind of thing in his organization, and he didn’t agree with it”, Carson told reporters.
On Wednesday, Cruz responded to Trump’s malicious tweets.
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Meanwhile, 74 percent of Democratic respondents said they “definitely will vote” for the candidate they support, compared to 26 percent who said they could change their mind. According to a University of Massachusetts Lowell tracking poll released on Thursday, Rubio has jumped into second place in the Granite State.
