Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Iowa.
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“I do wonder, in an hour, if Donald Trump is going to accept my invitation”, Cruz told reporters at about 7 p.m. “To date, Donald has not accepted the invitation, but in the Iowa debate, they said they didn’t know up until the minute of the debate whether he’d show up”.
Trump told Fox News about the race: “We had a great week and maybe even a great couple of weeks in Iowa”. “Are you afraid of snow?”
Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign received a boost with the influential New York Times endorsing her in the Democratic presidential primary describing her as “one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history”.
“I just think that this election is unique, that we have candidates from both sides that aren’t traditional”, Jerry Miller said.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has a very slim edge over Bernie Sanders but it’s within the poll’s margin of error of four points. Ted Cruz by 5 points, but pollster J. Ann Selzer noted that if evangelicals turn out in similar percentages to years past, Trump’s lead shrinks to 1, though he still leads. Just over half of New Hampshire GOP primary voters in 2012 and 2008 said they considered themselves conservative according to exit polls, well below the more than 8-in-10 who said so in Iowa and roughly 7-in-10 in SC.
“Maybe the folks who were deciding among the Rubio-Christie-Bush thing think Rubio has the best chance”, Schwarm said, referring to GOP establishment voters in Iowa.
Trump on Sunday strongly pushed back at Cruz and his allies’ claims that he supports government-run, universal health care, noting that he says in almost each campaign speech he gives that “Obamacare is a total disaster” and that he would “repeal and replace” Obama’s signature health care law with something “terrific”.
Iowa offers only a small contingent of the delegates who will determine the nominees at each party’s national nominating convention in July. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a shot at two of his opponents, Sen. Sen.
“We all believe Cruz has a very very sophisticated ground game”. Mr Rubio polled 15 per cent in the final Des Moines Register poll at the weekend, well behind both Cruz and Mr Trump on 23 per cent and 28 per cent respectively, but his aides whispered that their internal polling shows him doing far better.
Cruz’s campaign was challenged by Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate over a mailer sent to potential voters that seemed created to look like an official notice warning recipients about “low expected voter turnout in your area”.
“Accusing citizens of Iowa of a “voting violation” based on Iowa Caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act”, Pate said in his statement.
Cruz brushed off the fuss.
“I will apologize to no one for using every tool we can to encourage Iowa voters to come out and vote”, he said.
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“I am thrilled where we are right now”, Cruz told reporters here before a rally.
