“Trump appeals to Americans because voter are fed up with political correctness”.
At least that is what he told supporters during a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa on Saturday.
A CNN/ORC poll has Donald Trump up in Iowa with 37% to 26% for Ted Cruz.
Grassley, a six-term senator who is regularly re-elected with two-thirds of the vote, appeared at the event on the same day that Texas senator Ted Cruz made a campaign appearance in Grassley’s hometown of New Hartford, Iowa, population 514.
“His advisers and associates said he was galled by Donald J. Trump’s dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton’s stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side”, according to the New York Times, which first reported the development.
“Look, Glenn’s a loser”.
He blasted Trump’s past reluctance to strip federal money from Planned Parenthood and cast the billionaire’s plan to deport more than 11 million people who are in country illegally as “amnesty” because he would then let many of them return.
Donald Trump thinks his supporters are so devoted that he could “shoot somebody” on Fifth Avenue without losing any voters.
“It’s not somebody who’s got a lot of strip clubs and casinos”. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican and conservative firebrand, and Iowa social conservative leader Bob Vander Plaats encouraged local Republicans to unite behind Cruz. They helped boost Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum to victory in Iowa in 2008 and 2012.
He urged his fans to courageous the cold on the evening of February 1 to support him in their precinct caucuses.
“Ted Cruz is trying to prove that you can win with them alone”. I’m watching them for Rubio.
Traditional Republican candidates like Jeb Bush, whose father and brother have both served as president, have fallen by the wayside in the polls.
Although the Palin endorsement brought Donald Trump – and Sarah Palin – a good deal of media attention over course of the week, Trump also took a virtual drubbing from the prominent conservative publication National Review, which published a special edition of the magazine entitled “Against Trump“.
The ad shows clips from Trump’s past interviews, including one where he labels himself a Democrat and another where he declares that “Republicans are just too insane right”.
When likely Iowa caucus-goers at the rally were asked about Trump’s charge that he is bulletproof in the polls, some dismissed his turn of phrase. Grassley told AFP as he entered the packed university building.