Mr Trump, who finished second to Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night, has accused the Texas Senator of dirty tricks and demanded a re-run of the vote.
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“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Mr Trump said in a series of tweets. “That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!” Mr Trump amended the tweet shortly afterwards, removing the word “illegally”.
“Will not be chosen by the lobbyists, but will be chosen by the most incredible, powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in this nation, by we, the people”. O’Malley suspended his presidential campaign upon seeing the results.
Cruz, reacting hours later to Trump’s calls for an entirely new election in Iowa, added that Trump’s tweets on Wednesday morning showed no more maturity than Cruz’s two young daughters, aged 5 and 7.
After accepting his second-place finish at the Iowa caucuses with uncharacteristic grace but calling the result an “honor”, Donald Trump accused rival Ted Cruz on Wednesday of having won the contest through fraud.
Cruz had apologised to Carson on Tuesday because of an email from his campaign before the caucuses, which are the crucial first vote in the U.S. presidential nominating process.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson grabbed 11%.
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.
Mr Cruz’s camp is not taking the accusations too seriously.
“Having worked for the previous four Republican nominees for President, I know what it takes to not only win the Republican primary, but also to take on the Democratic Party machine and win the general election”, Duprey said in a statement. The letter assigned its recipients low grades that it claimed were based on their voting history, and urged them to caucus “to improve your score”. It will be the first debate since former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley dropped out of the race, leaving just Clinton and Sanders competing for the nomination.
Mr Trump, who boldly predicted victory for himself time and again in the run-up to the count, initially conceded.
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Senator Paul, who is also focused on winning another US Senate term, said he would continue fighting for limited government, criminal justice reform and “reasonable” foreign policy.
