National Politics - 2016

Ted Cruz Triumphs In Iowa

DONALD TRUMP, MARCO RUBIO TANGLE FOR SECOND PLACE … Suddenly, the anti-establishment movement within the “Republican” party has more than one face. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz won the Iowa GOP Caucus on Monday night –  giving his Tea Party-backed presidential bid fresh momentum heading into other early-voting states. Meanwhile Donald Trump…

DONALD TRUMP, MARCO RUBIO TANGLE FOR SECOND PLACE …

Suddenly, the anti-establishment movement within the “Republican” party has more than one face.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz won the Iowa GOP Caucus on Monday night –  giving his Tea Party-backed presidential bid fresh momentum heading into other early-voting states.

Meanwhile Donald Trump – the national GOP frontrunner and current leader in early-voting New Hampshire and South Carolina – tangled with establishment favorite Marco Rubio for second place in the Hawkeye State.

With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Cruz had captured 27.7 percent of the vote compared to Trump’s 24.3 percent.  Rubio was nipping at Trump’s heels with 23.1 percent support – well above where the amnesty-loving lawmaker had been polling prior to election day.

Cruz won eight delegates, Trump seven and Rubio six – the first of 2,472 delegates to be awarded over the course of the “Republican” primary.  To capture the party’s nomination, a candidate must earn 1,237 of them.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson finished a distant fourth with 9.3 percent of the Iowa vote (picking up two delegates), while U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky finished fifth with 4.5 percent (earning one delegate).

The rest of the field?  They put up disappointing results  … especially former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who captured just 2.8 percent of the vote despite the fact his campaign (and a political action committee supporting it) spent millions of dollars in the state.

In fact one reporter estimated the Right to Rise political action committee spent a whopping $25,000 per vote in Iowa – all so Bush could finish in sixth place.

Ouch …

Trailing Bush were Ohio governor John Kasich (1.9 percent), former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (1.9 percent), New Jersey governor Chris Christie (1.8 percent), former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (1.7) and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

Huckabee – who won the Iowa Caucus in 2008 – announced he was exiting the race before all of the votes had even been tabulated.  Santorum – who narrowly won Iowa in 2012 – is expected to follow in his footsteps soon.

Up next?  New Hampshire … on February 9.

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84 comments

dwb619 February 1, 2016 at 11:16 pm

Grandpa Munster!
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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carlos February 1, 2016 at 11:22 pm

How totally liberal of you…

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nitrat February 2, 2016 at 8:29 am

Another humorless Republican?

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nitrat February 2, 2016 at 8:28 am

While Paul Ryan is Eddie Munster.
Two Munsters in one party? What are the odds?

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Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:30 am

Will put up a communist thread for you.Go use it.

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idcydm February 1, 2016 at 11:33 pm

I love it, Hillary on CNN and MSNBC, Cruz on FOX. Cruz’s speech started first, it looks like Hillary is trying to our Trump him.

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Mom February 1, 2016 at 11:33 pm

Cruz – the ONLY fiscal conservative!

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Hank February 2, 2016 at 2:38 pm

Cruz is a nut who thinks he was anointed by god to take wealth from the wicked and give it to the Preachers, like his father.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa5w9js48s

If this guy wins I will vote for whoever is running against him.

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Dick C Normis February 1, 2016 at 11:36 pm

It wasn’t exactly a crushing win.

Trump takes N.H., and then there was S.C. I wonder what happens here? We have lots of evangelical loonies that can vote for Cruz but we also have lots of xenophobes who will vote from Trump. Hmmm….maybe we’ll just vote for Gingrich again.

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Herman W. "Buz" Martin February 2, 2016 at 5:07 am

Then too, in SC we have our own very special evangeloxenophobicalloonicons, who could go either way. Hence their nickname: Flippers.

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Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:32 am

I predicted the Cruz win yesterday.No go jack off to your Gloria Tinabu poster before mommy gets up.

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fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:33 am

HEY!!! Leave Boz alone.I think she is cute!

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Rocky Verdad February 2, 2016 at 9:55 am

You predicted it? Yeah, after I told you it would happen.

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flip's youngest son (D) February 2, 2016 at 10:05 pm

While you jack off to pictures of hairless young boys in your favorite magazine, Pederasty Illustrated!

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Bwahahaa February 2, 2016 at 10:11 am

evangeloxenophobicalloonicons! You should trademark that and put it on a t-shirt.

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Flip February 1, 2016 at 11:47 pm

Hillary is stealing this.These young folks won’t forget this in November.

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Loser February 2, 2016 at 7:57 am

But….what about Trump?

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Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:38 am

Trump had a great night.I predicted a Cruz victory because of evangelical vote and organization.

Republicans had great night.Trump wins New Hampshire,South Carolina,Nevada and Florida.

It’s over.

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The Colonel (R) February 1, 2016 at 11:57 pm

Well now, the mighty Trumpster (rhymes with dumpster) ain’t all that and a bag of chips after all. Even Rubio is nipping at his heels.

Hillary and Bernie, the winner decided by a coin flip… Seems appropriate somehow.

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Col.Flagg February 2, 2016 at 12:13 am

Ain’t no doubt you will jump on the winning bandwagon.That’s what RINO”s do. Course they never win.

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The Colonel (R) February 2, 2016 at 12:18 am

Dude, pay attention, I’ve been decrying the reality TV star since he announced. I can support Rubio or Cruz without any problem. If I had my druthers, I’d probably go with Cruz.

All of that said, Iowa seldom gets it right.

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Col.Flagg February 2, 2016 at 12:33 am

Breaking news.My ‘sources’ tell me Tim Scott is endorsing Rubio.Won’t matter.

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The Colonel (R) February 2, 2016 at 12:35 am

I agree, I don’t think endorsements carry the weight they once did. Scott’s endorsement might encourage some folks of color to consider Rubio, but not enough to matter.

Nick February 2, 2016 at 6:23 am

People like Tim Scott but his endorsement means little.

mamatiger92 February 2, 2016 at 9:19 am

endorsements = people looking for favors later

fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:20 am

BERNIE BERNIE BERNI!!!!

papatiger69 February 3, 2016 at 10:29 pm

I endorse mamatiger 92!

Who Dat? February 2, 2016 at 10:09 am

Many “Folks of color” think Scott is a sellout Uncle Tom…he’s a Repub after all.

euwe max February 2, 2016 at 2:36 am

Would you trust Cruz or Rubio to lead a battalion of marines – or the mess hall?

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Herman W. "Buz" Martin February 2, 2016 at 5:04 am

I would trust Christie to lead a battalion of marines to the mess hall. I just wouldn’t trust that he’d leave enough for the them.

fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:20 am

I love you Boz.Can we hold hands?

Yo Mamma February 2, 2016 at 6:22 am

More than I would trust those you worship…Obama, Gore, etc.

You are a cynical old partisan hack that sucks the life out of any argument.

vicupstate February 2, 2016 at 8:32 am

Were you looking in a mirror when you wrote that last sentence?

Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:34 am

LMAO!!!You picked Trump yesterday.You are 0-28 since 2014.

vicupstate February 2, 2016 at 8:37 am

YOU LIE !!

I did not pick Trump.

Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:41 am

You were all over Trump in Iowa.You and Fits ought to start your own political consulting firm-‘We pick em and lose em’. :)

vicupstate February 2, 2016 at 8:44 am

I only said that IF Trump won Iowa, he would be the nominee. Look through yesterday’s prediction post and paste my Trump prediction on here.

Jack February 2, 2016 at 2:31 pm

BigT/GT/Filp’s prior predictions

2012
President Perry
President Gingrich
President Palin
President Santorum
President Romney

So if he is predicting your candidate will win, I am sorry.

vicupstate February 2, 2016 at 8:38 am

How did you like the Louisiana Governor’s race BTW.

Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:40 am

He had a lot of baggage with that affair.WE punish our elected officials when they are perverts.You elect them again.

vicupstate February 2, 2016 at 8:42 am

I guess you forgot that Vitter DID get elected again, to the Senate.

I guess you have never heard of Eliot Spitzer or Anthony Weiner?

Convenient memory you have there.

mamatiger92 February 2, 2016 at 8:45 am

See Mark Sanford

Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:48 am

He repented and defeated the establishment.

p.s. Fits set you socialists up another thread about Bernie/Hillary.Go use it.

mamatiger92 February 2, 2016 at 9:05 am

Since this is a Cruz piece, I thought the socialist talk would be here. You being the resident expert on Castro, I figured you’d know that.

“Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s father was a 1950s Cuban revolutionary who longed to slip into the island’s eastern mountains and join Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army.”

fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:28 am

BEEEEERRRRRRNIIIIEEEEEE!!!LOVVVEESSSSS FIDEL!!!!

fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:29 am

Obama’s daddy was a marxist-so is his son!!!! BEEEERRRRRNNNIEEEEE!!!!

Flip February 2, 2016 at 9:32 am

Is Cruz’s dad running for President,Sanders IS a communist.See if you can get a refund on that public education that failed you. :)

fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:32 am

HA HA!!! Flip nailed you!!!!

fl ? p supports PP! February 2, 2016 at 9:44 am

Leave my colonel boy alone.He is saluting the Rainbow Flag.Why does that bother you??? BEEEERRRRRRNIIIEEEE!!!

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Uh huh February 2, 2016 at 12:41 am

Let’s reflect on the success of the last GOP caucus winner in Iowa:

Rick Santorum

Ted Cruz is an unlikeable dick who takes loans from Goldman Sachs. (just like Rick Santorum was an unlikeable dick)

I promise you there’s no way Ted Cruz wins the GOP nomination.

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The Colonel (R) February 2, 2016 at 12:43 am

We will see…

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euwe max February 2, 2016 at 2:34 am

In 2008 it was Huckabee.

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fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:19 am

Didn’t my boy BERNIE look NUTZ last night????He even gave us a Howard Dean SCREAMMMM!!! Dem people behind Bernie looked NUTZ.

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fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:00 am

Santorum is what Tango and I make every night! LMAO!!!

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Losers February 2, 2016 at 9:12 am

Who thought Trump had a chance?

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enpassant February 2, 2016 at 3:19 am

“The Khazarian mafia will not be allowed to steal another U.S. election”: http://benjaminfulford.net/

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RIP GOP February 2, 2016 at 7:56 am

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL,
Told you, suckers!

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Loujtanner February 3, 2016 at 4:29 am

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Oops February 2, 2016 at 9:11 am Reply
We care not who makes its laws February 2, 2016 at 10:11 am

You know you scramble for the Joo bucks too.

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Bible Thumper February 2, 2016 at 5:56 am

Iowa has gone Democratic 3 of the last four elections and Democrats record turnout in 2008 was almost twice the Republican record turnout in 2012. But yesterday the Republicans beat the Democrats

Interest and turnout were high on both sides. Republican officials said there were more than 180,000 people at Monday’s GOP caucuses, up from the previous high of about 121,000 in 2012. The Iowa Democratic Party said their caucuses drew 171,109 supporters, well short of the record 240,000 caucus-goers in 2008. — Fox News

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Flip February 2, 2016 at 8:29 am

Thank you Donald Trump.He is the 2016 Obama on voter turnout.Cruz or Rubio will be vp if they bevae themselves.Cruz may not be eligible however and Rubio needs to do the build the wall thing.

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fl ? p supports PP! February 2, 2016 at 9:50 am

Bernie brought everybody out after he got em all high and drunk!!!!! Berine!!!!!!!BBBBBBBEEEEEERRRRRNIIIEEEE!!!

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fl ? p February 2, 2016 at 9:16 am

Call flip after New Hampshire and South Carolina.Them damn Republicans kicked Democrat ass last night.I am for the BERN!!! A true communist and would take everybodys homes and 401-k’s!!!!!!!

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Rocky Verdad February 2, 2016 at 10:00 am

Well now that it’s over – let’s see. How hard will Trump start attacking Rubio, the guy who sweats too much. I expect Trump to throw the kitchen sink at him, and what a kitchen sink it is. Millions wasted to redecorate his office when he was Speaker of the House in FL. Millions wasted on travel. GOP AmEx card used for personal use. Payments to his wife, his Mom, his cousins. A multi-million state grant to a college in Miami, where he ends up with a paying job after he leaves the Legislature. And let’s not forget Amnesty as the request of his Mom, David Rivera lovefest, the house in foreclosure, did I mention Amnesty, Amnesty, Shumer love, Amnesty.

In SC it’s not going to matter much. Trump has a lot of support outside the midlands, along the I-26 corridor, in the Pee Dee, and maybe some around Chas. Rubio will have a lot of support in Lex Co and Columbia area, and Hilton Head. But dang, Ted’s going to crush ’em upstate, and that’s were a huge number of the Jesus GOPPERS live.

Trump wins NH, Cruz wins again in SC, setting up the big slugfest in FL.

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Rocky Verdad February 2, 2016 at 10:01 am

Second place in a state that’s voted for Obama twice. Supppa!!!!

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Sic Semper Tyrannis February 2, 2016 at 10:07 am

Trump must really hate (republican quality) himself right now, cause he is a LOSER!

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swpbbls February 2, 2016 at 10:49 am

On the front page of The State is a photo of Fake Teddy giving a fake hug to a fake engaged couple…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427255/Fake-engagement-Cruz-rally-protests-gay-marriage-view.html

Where in the annals of history is the big hug photo of Karl Rove + Teddy the Fake + his intended power marriage partner at a caucus of the doomed peoples?

Ted Cruz has Karl Rove’s fingerprints all over him. Look what Karl Rove architected for us the last two presidencies? W and Obama.

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Donald Loser February 2, 2016 at 12:26 pm

Sour grapes over on Trump’s twitter.

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mamatiger92 February 2, 2016 at 12:42 pm

Donald J. Trump
?@realDonaldTrump
I don’t believe I have been given any credit by the voters for self-funding my campaign, the only one. I will keep doing, but not worth it!

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Donald Loser February 2, 2016 at 1:14 pm

A FU to the voters, LOL. Presidential isn’t he? Wonder if he is going to pull a Palin and quit.

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Tom February 2, 2016 at 1:14 pm

I actually, think Trump was a big winner in this election. He spent a fraction of what Cruz, Rubio and Bush did in this state. Had no real organization like Cruz. This was a state that was heavily evangelical. Despite all of that he comes in a close second.

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Donald Loser February 2, 2016 at 1:17 pm

I would hope he placed at least second since he had 24/7 media coverage.

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mamatiger92 February 2, 2016 at 1:18 pm

Someone’s been reading Trump’s twitter excuses this morning.

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Tom February 2, 2016 at 1:24 pm

No, I am not a Trump supporter. But I think he has shown again that he is very capable of winning this race. I think this shows he can go head to head with Cruz in the states were Cruz should by rights have crushed him.

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Donald Loser February 2, 2016 at 1:22 pm

Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump 30 Dec 2013
“No one remembers who came in second.” – Walter Hagen

Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump 3 Jan 2013
Just shows that you can have all the cards and lose if you don’t know what you’re doing.

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Donald Loser February 2, 2016 at 1:29 pm

“Had no real organization like Cruz” But I thought he was a great businessman.

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swpbbls February 2, 2016 at 4:02 pm

If these are real evangelicals who are thrusting him upon us, they should have the spiritual discernment to see the monkeys flying around inside his fake suit.

1. No real evangelical tithes like a skinflint.
2. No real evangelical marries a vegetarian cultie from California.
3. No real evangelical would want another one running the country at this critical juncture – we are at war with everyone, including ourselves.

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LOLOLOLOL February 2, 2016 at 2:07 pm

Benny ?@bennyjohnson 3h3 hours ago

LOSER(dot)COM redirects to Donald Trump’s Wikipedia page. Try it:

http://loser.com

WHO MADE THIS?

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Harry February 2, 2016 at 3:16 pm

While I am no Trump supporter, my biggest regret from NH is that we have to keep looking at that Canadian weasel. I probably should not say that it is an insult to weasels.

Here is how Rafael Cruz’s freshman college roommate, Craig Mazin, described him.
“Cruz ’had a habit of donning a paisley bathrobe and walking to the opposite end of their dorm’s hallway where the female students lived. “I would end up fielding the [girls’] complaints: ‘Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?'”

“I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone,” Mazin said. “I would rather pick somebody from the phone book. Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being.”.

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Jesus Christ Superstar February 2, 2016 at 5:23 pm

Ask President Huckabee and President Santorum how much winning Iowa helped them.

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CorruptionInColumbia February 2, 2016 at 8:32 pm

I wonder if Cruz shot himself in the nads by playing dirty with Dr Carson.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/02/ben-carson-slams-dirty-deceit-of-gop-rivals/

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