“During primetime of the Iowa Caucus, Cruz put out a release that @RealBenCarson was quitting the race, and to caucus (or vote) for Cruz”.
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“We would like to say how disappointed we are in the dirty tricks that were played in tonight’s campaign”, Carson’s campaign Manager Barry Bennett said Monday night. Unusual. Yesterday afternoon, a still-humble Trump broke his silence, proclaiming that his second place finishing was “nice”.
“I beat a lot of senators, a lot of governors”.
“What Senator Cruz did to Ben Carson was a disgrace and an insult to Doctor Carson and the process”, he said.
Matt Rourke/AP Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finished second in Monday’s Iowa caucuses. Christie said Wednesday at a town hall in Lebanon, New Hampshire, according to northjersey.com. On Tuesday night in New Hampshire, he told reporters he was “very happy with what happened in Iowa”.
Carson’s reluctance to criticize Cruz comes from a deeply-held tenet of his campaign: from the outset, he has said he will not, under any circumstances, attack another candidate.
But he loses out to Florida Sen. It will be the first debate since former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley dropped out of the race, leaving just Clinton and Sanders competing for the nomination.
Clinton and Sanders took turns answering questions for two hours from the audience and CNN moderator Anderson Cooper.
“It is total voter fraud”, Trump said. The CNN story Cruz was referring to only noted that Carson was going home to Florida, not that he was “making a big announcement” in addition, which is what the Cruz campaign sent out to precinct captains.
Cruz later apologised to Carson and said his team should have circulated Carson’s statement denying the rumours.
A decision in this regard was taken by the newly formed “Indian Americans for Trump 2016” – a political action committee – at its meeting in New Jersey on Tuesday.
“Meet Ted Cruz, your new front-runner”, added Glenn Thrush in Politico.
Rubio, whose star has risen in recent weeks, won more than 23 percent, anointing him as the Republican establishment candidate of choice best placed to defeat presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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“He over-performed expectations”, wrote Amber Phillips in the Washington Post. “They’re both fighting for the same things, and they’re more for the people, but right now, I’m for Hillary”, Dover resident Edna Von Husen said. George Grow was the editor.
