” It’s amazing that Trump still came within a few percentage points on a shoestring operation.”
Yes, and wait until next week to see if your gloating wasn’t premature.
If Trump won and Rubio placed 2nd, it would be a worse situation.
I can’t believe Jeb and all these idiots are staying in the race.
I think most of the RINOs are happy with at least 4 years of Clinton as long as they can spurn Rubio or whoever pissed them off.
Yes lets be like Cruz who will take money for anything to get ahead. Wonderful. That is all we need a guy who will do anything for money.
Trump doesn’t need anybody’s money. I think that is better.
1. Cruz had most votes ever. Big ground game. A unique election nationally.
2. Skipping the debate. An error. Lot of people make up their minds the week of or even day of (!) the election. Those broke to Rubio.
“if Trump didn’t want to self-fund tens of millions of dollars for infrastructure comparable to Cruz, all he really had to do was ask.”
AKA. His bloated ego got in the way.
I don’t think the issue is cheap, I think it’s arrogance. Trump was certain he would win. He LIVES by polls and the fake polls showed him winning so he hung his hat on it. Further, he had big crowds at events and thought that translated into votes and, obviously, it does not.
He’s not stupid enough to spend his own money on the campaign. And he really doesn’t have enough money to do the full presidential campaign. Yeah
He’s spending his own money so he’s being frugal, not cheap.
Iowa was always a crap shoot for him.
Watch what happens going forward.
Iowa has always been an anomoly for Republicans.
The winner is usually NOT the nominee.
Agreed. There was a guy on the radio here in SF, big Trump fan, who said that he was told by the campaign that they didn’t need a rep in his caucus, then when he got there, and they asked for a rep from each campaign, there wasn’t anybody there to speak for Trump.
But don’t speak too soon. The Iowa caucuses have never really been a good indicator on the Republican side. Cruz could easily end up the 2016 equivalent of Santorum and Huckabee. Trump may have effectively kept his powder dry in order to focus on the upcoming states.
Exactly right, the wealthy invest other people’s money, not their own. His Cheapness will cost him the nomination.
Trump’s biggest problem is not that Cruz beat him by 4 percentage points,
especially after the monumental effort Cruz put into Iowa.
His big problem is that Rubio came within 1 percentage point of his support. So,
he lose from above and below.
No competitive candidate is losing the nomination because of Iowa. It’s picked only 2 of 6 GOP nominees in the last six races where no incumbent was running.
Cruz did not have huge rallies, however, he traveled to a lot of small towns and met with people at small venues. Not very exciting, but a sound strategy for IA.
I agree with you. Trump does one of two things at this point. He realizes this is a live fire exercise and fights to win, or he shrugs it off and leaves the arena for those who are serious.
I hope the latter. He is the only one changing the dynamics or the rotted and suffocating system. Winning the election will be easier than shifting the accumulated dung of the uniparty and the spooks.
Cruz had a huge Army.
And only won by 6000 votes.
Only 3.75 votes per Caucus location
(6000 / 1600 locations)
Not that impressive.
So....if Trump wins NH, what will you attribute that to?
Spending almost nothing compared to Bush, Cruz & Rubio?
Almost all winners of the nomination lose in Iowa.
It means little.
so kid, Jebbie should win ???