Posted on 02/03/2016 12:33:54 AM PST by springwater13
Trump's backers maintain that the most painful part of his loss to Cruz, by a 3.3-percentage-point margin, is that it never should have happened. Trump actually won the battle for supporters, they believe, especially among nontraditional Republican voters, but he lacked the tools to get them to participate in Iowa's Byzantine caucus system. As a result, a candidate who could have been vaulted into New Hampshire with huge momentum on top of an impressive polling lead is instead looking shrunken and chastened.
Trump's staff "got outclassed and outmaneuvered ― the Iowa team simply didn’t have the tools they needed, which is why they overpromised and underperformed," said a source close to the Trump campaign. "The Iowa team did an amazing job with the tools that they had, but that's like saying that Al Qaeda did an amazing job in a battle with the U.S. Army because some Al Qaeda fighters didn’t get killed."
At one point early in the campaign, Trump representatives talked to Cambridge Analytica ― the firm now being credited with engineering Cruz’s cutting-edge targeting operation ― about retaining the company’s services, but they decided it was too expensive.
The campaign's lackadaisical data effort is seen in some quarters as coming down to Trump's lack of willingness to use his own cash on something that's seen as essential in modern-day presidential politics. "Trump's a businessman," said Joe Rospars, who served as a chief digital strategist to President Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns. "He's not going to spend any more money than he has to, and he made his bet."
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No one is switching their vote from Trump because he lost by 3 points.
The Ted & Rubio donors and voters are confused now at what to do.
it’s his first campaign of any kind into politics.. let’s see if he’s a fast learner.. I expect he is and he already told Hannity things were not going to be played the same way on his part(get out the vote, ads and ground game)as it was in Iowa.. we will see next Tuesday
I think a lot of people people are trying real hard to read a lot more into Iowa than is actually there.
Why invest mega-bucks and practically LIVE in weird IOWA when IOWA’s delegates are NOT a winner take all?
Cruz earned 8 delegates
Trump and Rubio each earned 7
excatly. But it was a monumental victory for Cruz. Riiiight.
In a sane world this would automatically eliminate Trump as a candidate to support because his whole spiel is hiring the best people to get things done. Yet in the first big test since running he failed to do so. Go figure.
Yep. I’m sure he had people advise him about the ground game, but he believed in a more consolidated, tech centric, large event appearances approach.
Lesson learned. His desired approach may actually work better in later states, though I’m expect that he’ll respect the traditional ground game a lot more after yesterday.
This is a MAJOR problem for Trumpsters. I read the exact same thing about Ross Perot. He had problems because he was not willing to spend his own money and tried to do everything on the cheap. Billionaires got where there are in part by being greedy skinflints. You think the Scrooge McDuck stereotype is not there for a reason? Trump Tweeted Tuesday that self-funding his campaign is not worth it, but he'll continue to do so. If he continues as he's been doing, it looks like he'll lose. Turns out it's much smarter psychologically to take donor money so you're less naturally stingy with it. Knowing that you are not allowed to spend it on yourself later, you have no choice but to use it on your campaign.
Because Trump wants attention, he doesn’t want to be president.
ROTFLOLOLOL.
With that ... I am going to bed.
Mr. Trump can command attention ANYTIME HE WANTS.
He didn’t get into this race for the nomination to LOSE!
HE LOVES TO WIN!
“Vote for anyone but Cruz,” declared the much-vaunted Iowa establishment governor, Terry Branstad. Between Trump, the establishment, and Fox News, they threw everything they had at him in the months preceding the 2016 Iowa Caucus.We heard it all: birtherism, ethanol, Goldman Sachs loans, the Palin endorsement, Cruz supposedly losing every debate, the Santorum/Huckabee sniping, the entire establishment ganging up to defeat him. Then we were told that even if Cruz wins Iowa, a victory would only occur in the event of low turnout. After all, the newbies will all be for Trump. Well, Cruz won with a record turnout, projected to be near 180,000. It also appears that Cruz will break Mike Huckabee’s previous record of the most total votes received by the caucus winner. And he did it in an eleven-person race.
Trump and Cruz need to target Rubio this week.
Thats my hope anyway.
Yep, I let Soros’ Politico tell me what to think.
he’s building a campaign for the whole country.. just because he didn’t want to spend a year of his life coddling Iowans holding hands with everybody in the state(and that’s what they want you to do) doesn’t mean his strategy of rather doing dozens of huge rallies and events out across other states almost everyday for 7 months like NH, SC, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Nevada and Arizona wasn’t the correct one,, nobody else could have done better using the least amount of money and getting 1 delegate shy of the guy who won
Nobody is really suprised that he won. I honestly figured he would do better than he did in Iowa. Winning only 8 delegates to Trump’s 7 and Rubio’s 7 is not a decisive victory. he invested a lot into Iowa and Iowa is a state tailor made for him and he still only managed to walk away with one more delgate than Cruz or Rubio. I think a lot of people are making more out of that win than there is. In the grands scheme of things, it meant very little.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump and Rubio target Cruz this week.
That is the kind of excuse Trump would ridicule others for as being a “Loser”.
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