Posted on 02/03/2016 8:27:51 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
Milford, New Hampshire (CNN)Donald Trump on Tuesday said his decision to skip the last Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses may have led to his second-place finish in the Hawkeye State.
"That could've been with the debate," Trump acknowledged to reporters in Milford, New Hampshire, where he was introduced and endorsed by former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. "I think some people were disappointed that I didn't go into the debate."
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Cruz cheating cost Trump Iowa.
Not being Conservative & calling the people of Iowa stupid might have hurt some too.
The liberal media can just shove it
You losers are not king makers
No one should have showed up to that stooge debate
Being an obvious liberal & trying to fool people into believing you are conservative may have done it for Trump, too.
In my opinion, Trump could end up sabotaging himself.
Are you referring to the Cruz campaign saying that Carson had dropped out? I doubt Carson would have gotten much more than his 8-9% one way or the other.
Attending the debate might have cost him the election. It was an ambush aimed solely at taking Trump out. Megyn had to settle for attacking Cruz & Rubio.
If Trump did what Cruz did
It would be 24/7 TRUMP CHEATED on the cable news networks
Just wanted to point that out
Being a putz amd not doing the ground game cost you.
Get on it.
bookmark
Trump’s childish attacks and lack of a ground game probably had something to do with it also. The majority of people don’t want to hear that stuff and get turned off by it.
Jekyll & Hyde: One thing in public and another on twitter.
The debate was an ambush FOR Trump against his opponents. Fox has been promoting Trump.
Here’s my view on this....
- To the committed Trump voter it wouldn’t have made any diff.
- To the ‘undecided’ voter, they’re still trying to decide.
- The undecided voter waits.... ‘late into the process’.
- The debate missed was .... ‘late into the process’
- Trump NEEDED to be trying to SWAY to the ‘undecided’ voter that late into the process.
Personally, I hope that Trump learns from his mistakes and doesn't pull foolish stunts like this before. I really don't care whether Trump or Cruz win, as long as we don't get stuck with Rubio or some other establishment-approved candidate.
Whose loss was it, really?
What he did demonstrated Trump's true character. What a certain other campaign did to win shows theirs.
odd that it was aimed “ONLY” at djt but they had video surprise for Cruz.. oh and Cruz won.
He should have never attacked Megan Kelly
Instead he should have said he isn’t going to the stooge debate, and decided to something more positive with his time.
He should not have mention Megan Kelly, I cringe every time he talks about her, too much butthurt
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