Wednesday night, Cruz also responded to Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in Iowa.
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Trump, who placed second in Iowa, on Wednesday accused Cruz, who won, of stealing the election and called for either a new set of caucuses in Iowa or the results to be nullified.
Cruz fired back a salvo several hours later. “But at the end of the day the people of Iowa spoke”.
Trump took Ted Cruz to task over his admission that people in his campaign deliberately spread a rumor that candidate Ben Carson had dropped out of the race.
The poll found the most support for Rubio in a theoretical three-man race for the nomination, with 34% picking the Florida senator compared with 33% for Trump and 25% for Cruz.
“I’m going to trademark that before he does”.
“We need a commander in chief, not a twitterer in chief”, said the Iowa victor.
Cruz’s campaign dismissed Trump’s claims on Twitter with humour.
Sanders is favoured in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation February 9 primary as the state-by-state voting to collect delegates for the party’s nominating convention picks up speed.
After losing to Ted Cruz in Iowa, Donald Trump now says the Texas senator committed fraud in winning the caucuses.
Rubio, whose star has risen in recent weeks, took more than 23 percent, anointing him as the Republican establishment candidate of choice best placed to defeat presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Polls in the week leading up to the caucuses showed Trump five points ahead of Cruz, which raised expectations for Trump’s campaign, but Cruz finished first with 28 percent support, four points more than Trump.
The Iowa caucuses narrowed what has been an unwieldy Republican field, allowing debate host ABC News to scrap an undercard event for low-polling candidates.
Donald Trump also criticized his rival in his tweets for sending out Voter Violation Certificates to thousands of Iowan voters.
The poll was conducted entirely after the Iowa caucuses. But if the Hawkeye State was any indication, New Hampshire could come down to the wire.
“He has said really outlandish things in the past and none of them have really hurt him in the polls”.
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“Last night, when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and SC, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story”, Cruz said in a statement on Tuesday.
