Marco Rubio is catching up to the field in the Republican primary race, with a new poll showing the Florida senator slipping past Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in a three-way contest.
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A second hiccup, at the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday, would spell political disaster for the reality television star. “This is the place I’m focused on now”. Trump appeared to take the loss graciously on Monday night, but by Wednesday morning he had turned. He cited Clinton’s large lead in SC polls, and Bill Clinton’s continuing popularity with African-Americans, who make up a large segment of Southern primary voters. The network added that he planned to stay in the race.
“The senator has already apologized for not more quickly making that clarification, and there is no evidence that our sharing of this news story impacted Carson’s campaign – he well outperformed expectations”. Bliseman said the voice mail posted on Brietbart is the one she got.
But by Wednesday, Trump accused Cruz of stealing the caucuses and called for either a new vote or the results to be nullified. “Although it affected me maybe more than Ben”.
Trump may turn out to be like the Wizard of Oz, after the curtain was pulled back to reveal the real man who was busy projecting an awesome image.
For his part, Cruz shot back, mocking Trump for his “Trumpertantrum”, which caught on, on social media.
In any case, he said, “I wouldn’t throw my vote away on Bush now”. Cruz could win him over, he said, if he can address the Iowa situation to his satisfaction.
Trump was initially set to hold two campaign events on Thursday. John McCain famously sparked a comeback in 2008 after he grinded out town hall after town hall there, ultimately winning the primary.
Trump told Cooper that he wasn’t necessarily changing his strategy. “Here’s the problem – nobody wants to make a deal”, Trump said. As I write this, he has … three events planned in New Hampshire before Tuesday night’s vote.
In addition to speaking with Cooper, Trump also took questions from nearly a dozen attendees at the restaurant. The Republican turnout was high; first-time voters represented 45% of the total and, as expected, many backed Mr Trump.
“No one has been fired”, Williams said. “I’ve been here a lot”. “We have a strong sense of fairness in Iowa”, Branstad told Radio Iowa. There was no suggestion that he was “suspending” his campaign – the technical term candidates use when they drop out of a race. “How are you gonna do them?”
Everything, however, depends on Trump’s followers, and on how much they have what William James called “the will to believe”. You know, those people, there’s such love in the room, they want the country fixed. After all, since 1977, four of the nation’s six presidents have been former governors – Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
“Throughout the course of this campaign, you’ve said some disparaging comments about women, about people from other counties, other religions, and about everybody who’s disagreed with you”, Manzoli said. His assiduous effort to get them out on an icy evening made Mr Trump’s campaign look dilettantish.
There’s also the question of the tactics Cruz used to win.
He acknowledged that he does in fact tend to say things that are controversial. “I understand it’s a hard issue… but I have to chose between the right of a person to choose what to do with their body with the right of an unborn chilld to live and I chose to defend the right of an unborn child to live”.
“Who told you to be here, Bernie?” he asked. But he has been cheering Christie on, calling him “a great campaigner… a good friend…an effective governor”.
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“He got hooked on alcohol”.
