Since his impressive showing in Iowa, University of MA and 7News polls have shown Rubio increase from 8 points to 10 points, boosting him from fifth to third place among GOP candidates.
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“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Trump said in a series of tweets.
Donald Trump’s gracious acceptance of his second-place finish in Iowa was short-lived. Brand observes, “Polls predicted Trump would prevail in Iowa, as well as in the upcoming primary states of New Hampshire and SC”.
“It’s been an incredible honour to run a principled campaign for the White House”, he said in a statement. “The Twitter rant is just one more example of this media strategy, particularly at a time when Cruz and Rubio are basking in the glow of their performances in Iowa”.
Already Rubio, has picked up several key endorsements, most recently from conservative Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator who dropped out of the race Wednesday and immediately threw his support at the junior senator.
The first questioner noted that Rubio had poked other candidates, “but not Mr. Trump”.
The former Florida governor commanded an enormous early fundraising advantage through an outside group known as a super political action committee. “Many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud”, Trump wrote. She said she had considered Rubio’s short Senate career, but “In the whole overall decision making, I decided it didn’t play enough of a part”. “And much of what they say is very similar but we really are debating very hard about what the differences are”, Hyatt said. And this should never again happen. And the Bush campaign bought a full-page ad in the Union Leader, New Hampshire’s biggest-circulation newspaper, in which eight leading Florida Republicans charged that Rubio “is not the best choice to serve as commander in chief”. “There’s obviously a disconnect between his campaign and what the people want”. “It’s about what we’re going to do too”, he said.
He thinks Kasich and Christie could do it – but not Bush.
Bush, meanwhile, told supporters at a campaign stop in Hanover that the next president “needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we’re prepared to act in the national security interest of this country – to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world”.
The most intriguing candidate of the moment is neither a sitting governor – like these three – nor a political bomb thrower like Trump or Cruz.
Cruz eagerly noted that financial advantage as evidence he’s the GOP candidate to beat. “The conservative is supposed to be broke, and instead we’ve got the resources to compete nationally combined with a grassroots army from the ground”.
A repeat performance in New Hampshire would make Rubio the overwhelming favorite of establishment Republicans – and spell a quick end for the others.
But a Cruz campaign spokeswoman told Breitbart News, which first obtained the voicemails, that the messages “are in line with the reports that were made at that time”.
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Christie and Kasich raised barely anything via Washington lobbyists, the reports showed. “No one”, said Claude Malo, a 71-year-old Rubio supporter from Dover. Chris Cline, a billionaire coal executive, gave $1 million to the Bush super PAC Right to Rise through one of his limited liability companies. The university said Sanders and Rubio are the strongest candidates in general election matchups.
