Posted on 02/02/2016 4:20:09 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
To many of those who tuned in, Donald Trump’s three-minute remarks after finishing second in the Iowa caucuses appeared remarkably humble. He even congratulated Ted Cruz, whom Trump had called almost every name in the book in the days before.
Clearly, Trump’s strategy of attacking his rival’s character didn’t work. But Cruz’s strategy of attacking Trump on his views apparently did.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
You’ve flipped the winners & party IDs.
Trump has fans. Fans are not always voters.
Not this stuff again! Won’t vote for any Republican over Hillary if your guy doesn’t get the nod? Great - give Hillary the election and you’ve done a great disservice to this country. But, by golly, you’ve proven your point, haven’t you?
As a Trump supporter, I hope that this impresses him to stick to issues, the issues that propelled him to where he is, to slow it down and make his points.
I still don’t know why, for instance, that he doesn’t gig Cruz over voting for the Obama agenda in the form of TPA and the Corker bill.
Trump did well in a state that wasn’t exactly hospitable terrain for him.
He underperformed but not to the point where it was a bad loss.
Trump will be stronger going into NH next week.
About a month ago, wasn’t Trump down 10 in Iowa? He closed quickly. NH and SC will be a different story.
I agree with your post 100%.
Don’t like how the caucus works. Should be straight voting. Too easy to manipulate and I think that’s what happened and Rubio got to be where he is.
The “personality” of the states are about as different as you can get. In one you have mid-western values, in the other you have East Coast Social libertarianism. Southern NH is virtually Boston. Dartmouth, an Ivy Lague school will be good for Bernie.
People in NH like Trumps populist message. They are turned off by Cruz’s evangelical talk.
No one likes Hillary.
Yup. To be down by only 4 was a good night for Trump.
He was never going to win over a majority of evangelicals on the values issue but all things considered, enough did vote for him to keep him in the top three.
Cruz got 43% of those who self-describe as very conservative, to Trump’s 21%.
You might have the opportunity to vote for Hilary, vote for a third party candidate or not vote...That could be a difficult choice. Best wishes with it...
Bush in 04, and Reagan in 84 are running for 2nd terms, and running unopposed. Those dont count. Even 76 (Ford) almost doesn’t count because he was a sitting president.
So it seems like 2000 is the only example.
No one liked Hillary in IA.
She barely beat Bernie on points but the Bern showed he is in it for a long slog.
Her worst nightmare.
8 - Cruz
7 - Trump
6 - Rubio
1 - Carson, Paul, Kasich,
Bush, Fiorina, Huckabee
0 - Christie, Santatorum“He underperformed but not to the point where it was a bad loss.
“Trump will be stronger going into NH next week.”
Cruz exposed Trump’s biggest policy weaknesses - pro-Obamacare and pro-eminent domain. I don’t think either stance plays all that well in NH, either. And if he doesn’t think he’s going to get “carpet bombed” with attacks on those, he’s out of his mind...and it’s going to be hard to backtrack his way out of them 140 characters at a time.
And what is the 2016 version of 'moderate republican'? It's a 20th century liberal democrat and that's who the Rubio supporters are.
Yes, the Iowa GOP caucus is just continuing its tradition of irrelavency.
After NH, it will likely be Trump, and Rubio with more delegates than Cruz.
Rubio is a GOPe bomb ready to go off.
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