Trump said this after seizing on a new topic with which to criticize Cruz: retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s accusation that Cruz played “dirty tricks” on the night of the Iowa caucuses. The Texas senator fired back, questioning the controversial real estate mogul’s sanity.
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Edward Foley, an election law professor at Ohio State University, said Trump hasn’t shown any evidence that the Cruz campaign’s statement about Carson affected a single vote, let alone how the candidates ranked.
“Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified”, he also tweeted on Wednesday. “We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would’ve nuked Denmark”. Irrespective of these claims, Cruz apologized to Carson on Tuesday while dismissing Trumps tweets, by referring to his attacks as a “Trump-er tantrum”. “We need a commander in chief, not a twitterer in chief”.
“I think it did, yes”, he said Wednesday at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “I was getting a lot of intelligence from a lot of different places saying I was going to do extraordinarily well”. He has held a comfortable lead in national polls, as well as surveys in Iowa and New Hampshire for months, but had to settle for second in last Monday’s opening caucuses.
Trump said he will spend more money to win New Hampshire and vowed that even if he falls short in there, he will keep campaigning for upcoming nominating contests in SC and Nevada. More than a third (36%) say they’ve ruled out Trump. According to the PPP poll, Trump’s “surprise” loss in Iowa on Monday night has resulted in his lead falling to just 4 points – now at 25% to 21% each for Cruz and Rubio. “His reaction was to get very angry”, the presidential contender said during a town hall in New Hampshire on Thursday”. The email also encouraged to “inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Cruz”. The poll finds just 2% have ruled him out as a possibility, compared with 14% who have ruled out Cruz, 9% Bush, 5% Rubio, and 3% each for Christie and Fiorina. In the run-up to Monday’s Iowa caucuses, polling – including the almost-always-right survey conducted by Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics – suggested that Trump was poised to win.
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“It may be that some of the surrogates or some of our caucus precinct captains … went too far”, Tyler told CNN.
