In the run-up to Monday’s Iowa caucuses, polling – including the almost-always-right survey conducted by Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics – suggested that Trump was poised to win.
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“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Trump tweeted on Wednesday.
He criticised Cruz for putting out a statement saying that a fellow candidate, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, was quitting the race, and accused Cruz of lying to thousands of voters about Trump’s policies.
US Presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a new election in Iowa, accusing the Republican victor, Ted Cruz, of fraud. Trump managed to secure 24 percent of the final vote-edging out the third place finisher, Senator Marco Rubio, by only one percentage point.
As the candidates barrel toward New Hampshire, which on Tuesday will hold the election’s first primary, early signs have shown Rubio to be climbing there after his Iowa performance. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the victor of the Iowa caucuses, had 22 percent and Florida Sen.
“I think it could’ve been with the debate”, Trump admitted in New Hampshire when asked about his second-place finish.
“I think he’s done pretty well from the start”, said Eli Johnson, 33, from nearby Brookline, New Hampshire.
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump’s poll standing deflated in the first national survey released after his loss to Sen. On CNN Newsroom Wednesday, Baldwin said “when Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here…we reported it accurately”, she said on air.
“I’m going to have some work to do to reach out to young voters – maybe first-time voters who have to make a tough decision as they evaluate who should be our president, our commander-in-chief”.
“Despite the Iowa setback, Donald Trump is way ahead of his GOP opponents”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll.
“It’s clear that there were people who tried to take advantage of a situation”, Carson said.
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Wednesday’s tweetstorm could hint at how Trump might change his game plan and exit the race, or at least the Republican primary.
