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.
“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.
This.
The "evangelicals" (Iowa's self-proclaimed moral arbiters) early on looked art Carson/Huckabee/Santorum but trended to Cruz. The GOP-e (including the blue-rinse and polite politics set) that would have gone for Jeb trended to Rubio. Trump was going to have to carve out a chunk from the middle, which he did.
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