Trump: â€˜Honoredâ€™ With Second-Place Finish, Vows Heâ€™ll Win Nomination

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was "honored" with his second place finish in the Iowa caucuses and vowed that he will win the nomination and beat "whoever the hell" the Democrats nominate in a speech in Iowa on Monday night.

Trump said, "[O]n June 16th, when we started this journey, there were 17 candidates. I was told by everybody, 'Do not go to Iowa. You could never finish even in the top ten.' And I said, 'But I have friends in Iowa. I know a lot of people in Iowa. I think they'll really like me. Let's give it a shot.' They said, 'Don't do it.' I said, 'I have to do it.' And, we finished second, and I want to tell you something, I'm just honored, I'm really honored."

Trump then congratulated all the other candidates, mentioning Iowa's winner Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Mike Huckabee, who suspended his campaign, by name.

After thanking his staff and family, Trump stated, "We have a poll, we're 28 points ahead, okay? New Hampshire. We love New Hampshire. We love South Carolina. And we're leaving tonight, and tomorrow afternoon, we'll be in New Hampshire, and that'll be something special. It's going to be a great week, and we're going to be up here next week. And I think we're going to be proclaiming victory, I hope." He added, "I don't know who's going to win between Bernie and Hillary. I don't know what's going to happen with Hillary, she's got other problems, maybe bigger than the problems she's got, in terms of nominations, but we've had so many different indications, and polls that we beat her, and we beat her easily. And we will go on to get the Republican nomination,

Trump has a NH rally at 7PM tonight. He’s probably resting up for a big race to the NH primary.

61 posted on 02/02/2016 11:27:06 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)

By next week no one will be talking about Iowa.

62 posted on 02/02/2016 1:02:38 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)

By next week no one will be talking about Iowa.

I didn't wanna talk about Iowa before Iowa. So that'll be a relief.

63 posted on 02/02/2016 1:09:31 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)

He won’t do any of that. He’d rather take your property and work with Reid and Pelosi and McConnell to build an ethanol plant on it. You know, “get things done”.

64 posted on 02/02/2016 1:20:14 PM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

...and where do the complaints about how rough talking Trump is go now? Right up your ass, next to your head.

65 posted on 02/02/2016 2:54:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)

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