Christie to Trump: You don’t get a do-over in Iowa

Trump slammed Cruz for putting out a statement from Iowa saying that a fellow candidate, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, was quitting the race, and “lying” to thousands of voters about Trump’s policies.

Ted Cruz for spreading inaccurate information about Dr. Ben Carson getting out of the race the night of the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump is now saying he’s no longer interested in taking legal action. The network said it reported only that Carson was going back home to Florida after the caucuses and not straight to New Hampshire or SC as did other candidates.

Several social media users tweeted screengrabs of an alleged deleted tweet from Trump’s official account, in which he said Cruz “illegally” stolen the vote.

Jeanne Zaino, a professor of political science in NY, said Trump’s outburst – just his latest – was a strategic move created to counter the narrative that he lost in Iowa and that his campaign is beatable.

Trump polled 24 per cent of the vote behind Texan senator Ted Cruz’s 28 per cent. That sounds like bad news for Republican establishment leaders and moderates, who fear that the nomination of either man would be an electoral disaster that would gift the November elections to their Democratic Party opponents.

“We have now gotten used to the temper tantrums, or Trumper Tantrums, that he throws”, Cruz said Wednesday.

Cruz shot back at Trump yesterday with his fiercest attack yet on the billionaire mogul who has dominated opinion polls in New Hampshire, suggesting the reality star doesn’t like the reality of losing. “I don’t care about it anymore, I’m so into New Hampshire now, and making America great again, and winning New Hampshire”.

“That’s a huge component of Donald Trump’s campaign. I have no question about that”, Carson said on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on Thursday. The New Hampshire vote will test that assumption.

The Cruz insult ensured once again that Trump headlined the media coverage of the Republican presidential election – and again saving him from spending millions on campaign advertisements.

Asked if he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, Trump said, “Yes, and I think it’s a possibility to do”.