Appearing with evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr.at a Davenport, Iowa, town hall event, Trump said he was happier that he was connecting with evangelicals than he was leading the new poll. Democratic candidates win in Iowa by collecting delegates in every county instead of by running up the popular vote.
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Bernie Sanders says he’s ready to turn the political world upside down in Iowa. Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
“A lot of people have laughed at me over the years”, Trump said Friday at the end of a speech in New Hampshire, which will host the country’s next nominating contest and where Trump leads by double-digits. But Debbie Maestas, chairwoman of the Republican Party of New Mexico, said New Mexico Republicans are paying close attention to Iowa to help assess the unusually large field of GOP candidates.
On Monday night, a dozen Republicans and three Democrats remaining in the race for president will learn whether their hard work paid off when voters convene for the Iowa caucuses, the first official presidential contest of the 2016 election.
The result Sunday was a blur of sometimes conflicting messages.
None of the Democratic campaigns have scheduled any events for around the time that the New Hampshire debate is supposed to take place on February 4.
Indeed, the campaigns of Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, as well as Democrat Bernie Sanders, were fueled for months by anger, frustration and anxiety over an economic and national security landscape that is undeniably in flux. Trump did not offer any senators’ names.
The Vermont senator is in a tight race with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Whatever else changes, one factor remains huge when it comes to turnout: the weather.
In the last major preference poll before the caucuses, Trump had the support of 28 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers, with Cruz at 23 percent and Rubio at 15 percent.
– Five eventual nominees won the Granite State… He says if you can’t do that, don’t speak. He did not say how he’d pay for such coverage.
Voting in a primary is one thing. “Hillary is tough. Hillary is courageous”, she said.
This creates a “passion” among the billionaire’s supporters that “just doesn’t exist for other candidates”, said Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
At the bar, Michelle Heneman, 45, said: “He’s reliable and stable and positive, and he doesn’t give you rhetoric like so numerous other ones like Trump”.
“Frankly, I don’t think we can”.
It is an old campaign cliché, but the Iowa election will likely come down to how many of Trump’s supporters actually vote, which remains unpredictable. We’re seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarians and Reagan Democrats.
“We’ve come so far”, the email reads.
Cruz directed much of his final advertising against Marco Rubio as the senators’ feud grew even more bitter in the final day.
Jeb Bush, also speaking in Sioux City, Iowa, said Clinton lied. “There’s only one person who could stand up to the gun lobby and to huge, corporate, monied interests”, Kelly said. “Amnesty. The Republican Obama”.
At a stop Saturday in Des Moines, Clinton thanked supporters for agreeing to caucus for her and said she hoped “to persuade some more of you because we’ve got to keep the progress going”.
“Republicans get to Washington and become part of Washington”, said Brendan O’Brien, 51, of Portsmouth, N.H. Clinton and Sanders have been neck and neck in Iowa, but the former secretary of state received good news Saturday with the Bloomberg/Des Moines Register’s final poll before the caucuses showing her maintaining an edge.
Hillary Clinton campaigned Saturday with gun-control advocates Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, trying to draw a contrast between her push for stricter laws with rival Bernie Sanders’ record.
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Bauer reported from Ames, Iowa.
