Posted on 02/03/2016 1:06:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The bromance has long ended and the bitter battle is only beginning to rage between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as the Republican presidential primary devolves into a slugfest now that the crowded field is winnowing down to let the dominate contenders duke it out leading into the New Hampshire primary.
But first, the results of Monday's Iowa caucus continue to be a point of contention days after Cruz was declared the winner.
On Tuesday, Cruz was forced to apologize to Ben Carson's campaign for misleadingly suggesting to caucusing supporters that the retired neurosurgeon planned to drop out of the race in an apparent effort to corral additional voters to the Cruz camp. Carson actually only intended to return to Florida to change clothes before eventually returning to the campaign trail.
After initially shocking observers when he appeared to accept defeat with a modicum of graciousness Monday night, Trump decided to lash out at Cruz Wednesday, tweeting that a "either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified"
Trump amplifying Carson's allegations of "dirty politics" played by the Cruz campaign surely wasn't what was expected when Cruz admitted fault while still defending his campaign's action as "fair game." After all, the Cruz campaign initially denied the allegations.
"For months, my campaign has survived the lies and dirty tricks from opponents who profess to to detest the games of the political class, but in reality are masters at it," Carson complained on Monday before citing various "political tricks" by the Cruz campaign.
During an interview with right wing radio host Mike Gallagher today, Cruz walked back much of his admission of guilt and shifted blame to the liberal media for turning Carson against him.
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RE: “Never apologize...it’s a sign of weakness!”
Not even if you’ve done something wrong?
What about “To err is human....”?
Cruz walked back much of his admission of guilt and shifted blame to the liberal media for turning Carson against him.
Ugh. So typical of Cruz to flip flop......so he went from I didn’t know, to oh, to really? to sorry to never mind, we didn’t do anything. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
RE: The caucus is history. If they had any sense, they should be moving on.
If Carson is the real victim here, then the caucus should NOT be history. He should be filing a complaint with the FEC.
Is there a time limit for doing this?
Trump is embarrassing himself.
Have you seen the polls.......Cruz is extremely low in NH. Trump is winning so far ahead that he probably could go to SC and still win.
What time was the Cruz tweet?
“He isn’t looking bad, he is embarrassing himself”
LOL!
Saying that 100000 times isnt going to make it true.
“deliberately using it in a misleading way.”
Huh. I thought Cruz was a smart guy? I guess he skipped pot/kettle class.
The Cruz team tweet was 34 seconds after the CNN report.
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Sounds like a very efficient social media organization Cruz has working for him.
Trump threatens lawsuits all the time practically whenever someone doesn’t compliment him, but he only follows through
once a year or so. So Cruz et al may be safe for now. Although there do need to be changes to the Iowa system to make sure this degree of chaos doesn’t happen again.
1) What time was the CNN tweet or report?
2) What time was the Team Cruz tweet or post?
3) What time was the Team Rubio Tweet or report?
Still want to know in the interest of uncovering the truth regardless of the results:
1) What time was the CNN tweet or report?
2) What time was the Team Cruz tweet or post?
3) What time was the Team Rubio Tweet or report?
1) What time was the CNN tweet or report?
2) What time was the Team Cruz tweet or post?
3) What time was the Team Rubio Tweet or report?
Look! Look! Over there! Squirrel!! - BOYS! FOCUS!!
The ENEMY is HITLER-Y!!! - FOCUS!!
hearing a Breitbart story will be out soon...apparently unfavorable to Cruz. Will come out via @Libertarianblue
Look at that Twitter rant!!!!!!!
This guy is unhinged!!!!
Arrrrrrgh!!!!
You are embarrassing yourself, Carson, or should I say DR. SORE LOSER-SON FATTY FAT FAT LOSER GUY!
Jesus officially hates you! St. Patrick too.
You should find out.
But Rubio has momentum from Iowa and he’s being pushed by the establishment. Fox is practically drooling over him. He needs to be exposed for his part in this sleazy scheme. He may be in 3rd now, but he won’t stay there.
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