Shortly after Donald Trump went off on Twitter and said the there should be a redo of the Iowa caucus, Sarah Palin took to Facebook on Wednesday to tear into Ted Cruz for his campaign’s role in the fiasco that had some believing Ben Carson was pulling out of the presidential race. The real estate mogul argued for a “new election” or for the Texas senator’s results to be “nullified”.
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“I don’t know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the button”, Cruz said during a press conference in New Hampshire (see video below).
I think it’s still too early to really make a sound guess for the Republicans with so many candidates still in the race.
Donald Trump’s speech Monday night in Iowa after his surprising loss in the caucuses was perhaps most noteworthy for its graciousness. Ted Cruz stole the Iowa caucus and that the vote should be taken again.
“As far as I can tell, there’s not even a single voter coming forward saying, ‘I would have voted for Carson instead of Cruz if I’d known Carson was in the race'”.
Cruz finished first with 27.6 percent of the Republican vote, followed by Trump with 24.3 percent and Sen.
Trump also hit Cruz over a provocative mailer the senator’s campaign had sent some voters in Iowa.
In another tweet, Trump said Cruz had lied about his opinion of President Barack Obama’s healthcare program, Reuters reported.
Donald Trump admitted that his choice to skip the Fox News-hosted GOP debate could have contributed to his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses Monday night.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has a significant gap to overcome in the statewide polls if she wants to defeat Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders following her razor-thin victory in Iowa.
In the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, he held leads in nearly every statewide and national poll though his dominance in Iowa wobbled after Mr Cruz won a key endorsement from a local evangelical Christian leader.
“I did a good job and I came in second and spent a lot less than anybody else”, he also said, adding that had he known he’d be so-well liked in Iowa, “I would have spent more time there and won it”.
“I don’t think T’s meltdown today is helping his campaign”, he told AFP.
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After emerging as the leading “establishment” candidate competing with Trump and Cruz, Rubio faces high stakes in New Hampshire.
