After previously claiming Carson was suspending his campaign, Cruz’s team said it should’ve clarified that Carson was indeed staying in the race.
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MILFORD, New Hampshire Donald Trump, the NY businessman seeking the Republican U.S. presidential nomination, said on Tuesday he felt “a tinge” of disappointment after losing to Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses.
Trump puts a positive spin on his second place finish in Iowa, saying he put very little in resources comparatively.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Mr Trump tweeted. Now, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has accused the Cruz campaign of deliberately poaching his voters in the state.
Cruz finished first with 27.6 percent of the Republican vote, followed by Trump with 24.3 percent and Sen.
“I have won and I have lost there, it is a lot better to win”, Clinton told a crowd in Nashua, New Hampshire, just before the announcement, CNN reports.
Donald Trump’s speech Monday night in Iowa after his surprising loss in the caucuses was perhaps most noteworthy for its graciousness.
Cruz’s sins began as a grab for more evangelical voters, specifically Carson’s evangelical voters.
Trump skipped a Fox News debate over a long-standing feud with the network. Rubio, he said, takes a couple of questions at his events and rarely takes questions from a group of reporters.
Carson called Cruz out for it, Cruz apologized and everyone went on their merry way. Ted Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucus and wants a do-over.
While he has said he’s “honored” to have placed second in Iowa, he told Tuesday’s crowd: “Finishing second wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world”.
“We’re looking at it right now, but the important point is that at the end of the day we came from nowhere to really startle the entire world, ” he said.
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Martin O’Malley dropped out of the Democratic race Monday night while Mike Huckabee left the Republican race.
