One of the messages left for a Cruz precinct captain said, “Hello, this is the Cruz campaign with breaking news: Dr. Ben Carson will be (garbled) suspending campaigning following tonight’s caucuses”.
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In 1992, her husband took second place in the New Hampshire primary. The electorate tends to favor more moderate candidates, making him a more natural fit than he was in evangelical-dominated Iowa, despite his efforts to appeal to the group. If they don’t, donors and endorsers may begin to coalesce around Marco Rubio, the only establishment hopeful who performed better in Iowa than the polls had predicted.
Pate, the GOP Iowa secretary of state, was disturbed enough to rebuke the Cruz campaign, and he issued a statement that said, “There is no such thing as an election violation related to frequency of voting”.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is accusing Marco Rubio of having no accomplishments with new web ads hitting New Hampshire on Saturday, just days before the state’s primary.
Now presidential candidate Donald Trump is demanding that Cruz be either disqualified from the Iowa caucus or a new caucus be held.
Donald Trump, still fuming over his disappointing second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, said Thursday that politicians are “full of s-t”.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad also blasted Cruz, saying his campaign used “unethical and unfair” tactics against Carson, Newsmax said. On to New Hampshire. The latest episode revealing this was during a speech in New Hampshire where the former Florida governor railed against “blowharding” and “talking a big game without backing it up” as a Commander-in-Chief. Cruz will hope that his fundraising machine and national campaign infrastructure will carry him to the White House come November.
At a packed venue in Laconia, New Hampshire on Wednesday, Rubio told his supporters, “If I’m our nominee, we will win, and the Democrats know this”.
Cold, snow and windy weather is in store for the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday.
Carson said “as a Christian”, he has accepted Cruz’s apology but insisted that the people in Cruz’s camp responsible for the disinformation should be fired. Face-to-face campaigning is the only route these candidates can take to overcome the media’s obsession with The Donald and his polls. But he picked a fight with Fox over whether Megyn Kelly – who played hard-ball with him in the first Republican debate – would be one of the moderators and dropped out after Fox refused to drop her. And many mainstream Republicans, like former state party Chairman Cullen – figure their numbers are self-defeating.
A University of Massachusetts Lowell tracking poll, conducted daily, had Rubio jumping into New Hampshire’s No. 2 spot in Thursday’s release.
For Republicans, however, New Hampshire is political life or death.
Is he still confident about New Hampshire? Partly but not entirely, I conclude from extrapolations (necessarily somewhat imprecise) from Iowa entrance polls.
Other Republicans, meanwhile, have grumbled in the press that Bush’s rich friends have done worse than waste money – that they’re damaging the party’s hottest young prospect, who represents the Republican party’s future. Rubio’s plan has no specifics and makes no claims to covering as many or more people as Obamacare, likely because it can’t. What does it mean for you to have her on the campaign trail?
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“I can tell you that when it comes to the establishment, that is, people who have been involved for politics for a long time, they didn’t want me to run for president”, he told reporters.
