Looking specifically at clusters of donors that make up the Republican Party “establishment” – power centers on Wall Street in NY and K Street in Washington – Rubio is increasingly dominant. That’s the argument that Trump seized on in an effort to undermine Cruz’s win.
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Bush’s campaign hopes to cut into Rubio’s support before next week’s New Hampshire primary and is targeting his one-time mentee in his latest round of advertising.
Once a bromance, now a brawl.
When UMass Lowell and WHDH canvassed likely GOP New Hampshire voters Friday through Sunday – so just before Iowa – Trump was on top with 38 percent but Rubio was all the way down in fifth place with just 8 percent.
This marks a stark drop for Trump from the national survey by the same firm conducted in mid-December which found the real-estate mogul cruising ahead of the competition at 34 percent, while Cruz and Rubio trailed behind him with 18 and 13 percent respectively.
“It is no surprise that Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum – or, if you’d like, yet another ‘Trumpertantrum, ‘ It seems that his reaction to everything is to throw a fit, to engage in insults”, Cruz told reporters in New Hampshire.
Denmark once again featured during the race for the Whitehouse in the United States this week following the Iowa caucuses results. Opinion polls show Trump with a roughly 20-point lead in New Hampshire before next Tuesday’s primary.
“It’s clear that there were people who tried to take advantage of a situation”, Carson said Wednesday during the briefing.
The former Florida governor commanded an enormous early fundraising advantage through an outside group known as a super political action committee. He would also best Trump and Cruz in theoretical head-to-head bouts for the nomination. “We can not win if we are divided against each other”.
‘What do they do exactly in the United States Senate? Others have zero experience of actually running a governmental organization and having to take responsibility for the consequences of how it ran.
Moreover, his poisonous effect on the GOP field will linger.
“Trump needs to go away”.
He also claimed that Mr Cruz’s campaign sent out a notification to Iowans warning that not caucusing on Monday would be a violation.
Cruz has apologized to Carson.
“Well, I don’t know”.
Officials from the Iowa Republican Party did not respond immediately to questions about their process for handling complaints like Trump’s.
But he said in the next breath, ‘That’s not going to change my campaign. Opening a town hall meeting at a pub in Lebanon, Christie made a striking comparison between Rubio and himself. And he doesn’t want you to remember he got silver in Iowa. 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.
While the actual number of delegates each candidate got is not that different, the caucus is more about image and expectation. To everyone else, he urged, “Please clap”.
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton was seeking to turn a narrow victory in Iowa over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders into some momentum.
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“We’ve been fighting the progressive fight and getting results for people for years”, Clinton said at rally in Derry.
