And the Iowa caucuses, they’re now just weeks away.
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To help solidify his lead in early caucus states like Iowa and put Cruz’s growing traction in the rearview mirror, the Trump campaign is planning an expensive ad blitz, a barrage of media that will likely cost $2 million a week, according to Fox News. NPR’s Sarah McCammon attended a rally for Trump in Iowa last night. I mean, it is – there is now a chasm between Trump’s part of the Republican base, his 30 percent, 35 percent, whatever it is, of the Republican base and the party establishment with a whole bunch of people kind of in the middle trying to figure out what’s going on.
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“We’re doing really well with the evangelicals”, Trump said at the time.
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MCCAMMON: Trump told Iowans that if he becomes president, he’ll make sure their coveted first-in-the-nation status is preserved. Seconds later, when he hailed the Iowans attending, a much smaller round of cheers rang out. Granted, Trump has made some missteps which would have doomed other candidates and could hurt him in the general election if he gets the Republican nod.
“If anybody goes after me I will spend a lot of money against the people that go after me…” Ted Cruz is surging on the backing of the state’s robust evangelical conservative voting bloc. The senator from Texas was born in Canada to an American citizen mother, making him a citizen of the USA from birth.
Talking to a big bunch in Council Bluffs, Mr Trump vowed to return production jobs.
It was a bold declaration from a candidate who despite his fundraising advantages and favorable early-state polling, trails Donald Trump solidly in the national horserace.
RYAN MCDERMOTT: He says how it is.
MCCAMMON: But McDermott says any Republican would be better than a Democrat.
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Trump also managed to throw in a few bon mots about other candidates during the Council Bluffs rally: Bernie Sanders is “not even a socialist, he’s a Communist”. “Believe me, women, if it’s got to be a woman, which I am all in favor of someday, it shouldn’t be Hillary”, said Trump.
