Polls show well over half of Republican voters have yet to make up their minds.
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Mr Pate said Mr Cruz’s mailers “misrepresent Iowa election law” and that they were “not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses”, but he stopped short of any official action.
“That could’ve been with the debate”, Trump said.
But if we’ve learned anything over the last few months, it’s that Trump only takes advice from one person and one person alone – and that person is none other than Donald Trump himself.
“I’m so much into this, into New Hampshire, that I just – I don’t care about that anymore”, he told CNN Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire, five days before the Feb 9 primary contest there.
On Tuesday, Trump declared the Cruz campaign’s efforts around Carson “a disgrace”. In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Trump called for Cruz to be disqualified from the recent election calling him a “total fraud”.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it”, Trump tweeted.
“The person that came in third, Marco, they made it sound like he had one of the great victories of all time”, Trump said Wednesday on NBC’s “Today”.
It was Bush’s challenge in a nutshell: The race’s focus has increasingly been on front-runners Cruz, Trump and Rubio.
Carson, who finished fourth in Monday’s Republican caucuses, criticized the winning Cruz camp of using “shameless tactics and dirty political plays” by fueling false rumors that Carson was dropping his presidential bid.
Campaigning in Goffstown Ted Cruz said that Donald Trump is “losing it” because he can’t handle having been beaten in the Iowa caucus.
Mr Trump also cited Cruz leaflets that accused Iowans of “voting violations”.
Trump, during a campaign speech, repeatedly attacked his top Republican presidential rival on a host of issues, including the mogul’s favorite attack line: Cruz’s birth in Canada.
In response to the Cruz mailers, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said Cruz’s campaign had misrepresented state law. “But I won’t say that…it’s too controversial…it’s not politically correct”, said the businessman. I just want to take care of you.
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“You know when you go and you speak a little bit rough to somebody and you end up fighting for your job, it’s not going to happen anymore”, he said.
