Trump says in Iowa “I sort of just went through the motions.”
For real, or convenient excuse?
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I'm pretty sure you blew a lot of cash on commercials and rallies to 'just go through the motions'.
He admitted elsewhere that despite the advice of his campaign guys he didn’t take the Cruz ground game seriously and said he won’t make that mistake again.
It’s IA, but Cruz and Rubio did much better with da yuts despite a LOT of polling to the contrary, but, of course, . . . Those were polls, which have proved useless.
He definitely didn’t put much money into developing an organization there, that’s for sure. He also tended to fly in, and out rather quickly most of the time. Only in the closing days did he seem to really be putting for an effort. Skipping the debate wasn’t his best idea, but he did manage to raise a lot of money for vets, so there is that. Despite all the shortcomings of his campaign, he did come in 2nd, which was a good showing.
Iowa was a big wakeup call for Trump.
I expect a huge shift in his strategy. He won’t make the same mistake again.
Didja hear how he said “okay”?
What an outrage!!!!!!!
I am still not sure why winning in Iowa is such a big deal. The winners seldom go on to win the nomination. Trump still is in the driver's seat in this primary, as far as I am concerned. Cruz will do well too. Rubio, not so sure about. The rest are just excess baggage from now on.
But come late summer, unless the Republicans do something stupid, like defaulting to Yeb Bush, the general election is ours to win.
If I wanted someone for president who just “goes through the motions” then I’d vote for Rand Paul or Ben Carson. If he’s not serious about it then Trump should get out.
Reagan lost Iowa too
ANd he skipped the last debate before it
Like going to church.
The interesting question this raises. Will Trump’s supporters turn into votes, or, are a good percentage of them merely fans? Hard to tell with Iowa being a caucus state. NH and SC should answer this question.
Let’s see. He says he surrounds himself with smart people, but doesn’t listen to them?
Keep talking, Donald. Eventually a man’s word do reveal who he is.
“Trump: In Iowa, ‘I Sort of Just Went Through the Motions’”
That’s crap Donald.
He threw everything he had into winning. He sucked all the oxygen out of the room and always had top billing in news stories.
He didn’t have to spend as much money; as he generated tons of attention for free.
Trump has already said he didn’t do enough for Iowa. How is this news worthy?
Cruz spent more time in Iowa than Trump has in total campaigning. If he didn’t win it would be shocking.
Given Iowa’s recent record of picking candidates it’s Cruz who should be worried.
Trump touts Iowa ground game as caucuses near
“We’ve got such an incredible ground game,†he said.
Donald was ill-advised to pursue a birther tactic with a side blow on Cruz being a maniac who couldn’t get along with McConnell.
I detest McConnell. Everything Cruz did to expose McConnell’s complicity in falling in line with funding Obama for everything and McConnell’s duplicity in show votes to make it look like the US Senate was powerless to act was heroic. Donald attacked the heroism of Ted Cruz. This was a huge mistake.
To be sure, the people behind Cruz are greedy and are not at all capable of inspiring Americans to unify to be great again. Ted Cruz is running on a ghost of Ronald Reagan when in fact Donald has the ability to inspire like Reagan.
A winning strategy for Donald against Cruz would be one that is genuine which is that Ted is a good guy who says all the right things but has no experience in actually getting things done. He could hammer it home that a large part of today’s electorate were children and teens when Reagan left office and they never knew or understood why Reagan was so great.
Ted is running on a playbook that is based on Reagan’s second term and not his first term. That’s the key fact for Ted Cruz to understand (he doesn’t get it now) and for Donald to hammer home. Donald hammers it home by pointing out that ‘words’ don’t bind the electorate to you, ‘actions’ do and that would be future actions not past actions. In other words, nobody can repeat Reagan until they’ve been in office for a few years and have made people proud to be Americans again.
Reagan did not get into the White House with ‘words’, he got there because of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, because he was viewed as a hardliner who would not negotiate with terrorists or the Soviets, and because Jimmy Carter was a gross incompetent.
Trump needs to get back on track with his message that he can turn the country around and make Americans be proud again by putting Americans first and that he has the right stuff whereas Ted has the right ‘words’ but not the experience.
Donald also needs to address his past transgressions, not by admission as he did with Marla Maples that it was all just ‘lust’ (it was a mixed up time in his life), nor by apology (which strong leaders are not to do) but by pointing out that in his life he has always strived to make the people that were close to him, who he loved, to make it good for them, to take care of them, not leave them to suffer, to always strive to leave things better than when he first encountered them. This is all true about Donald Trump. It is what sets his transgressions apart from others who are true scoundrels.
It’s amazing how Cruz and Trump supporters(I’m for Trump) go at each other for causing the caucus results to be so unlike what the polls indicated and what was expected.
Fox News, the political propaganda machine, among others, is laughing itself silly. Rubio, the come from behind(can you guess why?)surprise of the night is what split and brought down the voting averages of both Cruz and Trump. That and the amazing numbers of Democrats who miraculously changed their party affiliation to vote Republican. It’s a pretty safe bet that most of them didn’t vote for Trump or Cruz.
Cruz got the majority of the delegates to mollify the Evangelicals, as is usually the case in Iowa.
Trump got taken down a peg, which was a much desired outcome for many Republicans and Democrats alike.
The preferred candidate of the GOP, Rubio, got a huge and astounding takeoff in the race. Rubio, with the help of his backers, Fox News, who spent the week running up to the caucus exclusively pushing their guy, came from the bottom rungs of the ladder up to third place. He very narrowly missed second.
What amazing results coming out of a “fair” system! It couldn’t have worked out better for the GOP uniparty OR the Democrats if it had been........(gasp) rigged.
I’m just saying that, true to form, most people are looking in the wrong place for the villain. The American voter is up against much more diabolic intrusion than they know. Unless we start being smarter ourselves, it doesn’t really matter who we wind up with as our representatives.
Cruz comes in first in IA and everyone says look how well Rubio did. If Cruz hadn’t finished first the same people would be saying he’s done. Love Cruz or hate Cruz he deserves credit for his win.
Really? Then knock it off about the cheating or whatever and get on to New Hampshire.
(Him, not you.)