I’m wondering what the news stories will be like after Trump trounces everyone in NH? These ‘Cruz killed Trumpm in Iowa’ stories all seems to push the theme that Trump is totally weak and a huge loser in Iowa. He came in second by a few points, he wasn’t in Jeb territory.
He came in second with very little ground game while Cruz literally had an army of carefully organized supporters in the thousands working for months. Bravo for Cruz, he did a great job managing his resources and getting out the vote. He spent almost all of his time and effort in Iowa while Trump has been campaigning everywhere and still Trump came in second without having the drag people to the caucuses.
Cruz has been all through the South, too. What he did in Iowa is being done throughout the Super Tuesday southern states.
Cruz didn’t focus exclusively on Iowa any more than Trump did (Cruz was in Iowa for 40 days since Trump entered the race, Trump was there 29 since he entered.)
Trump didn’t build a ground organization as strongly as Cruz did. A lot of people were saying that Trump could break the rules of how to win in Iowa, but that didn’t turn out to be true.
Will he win New Hampshire? Absolutely, no question. Then a few more will drop out and the contest turns to South Carolina.
But I thought Trump was a winner. A winner that wins so much we would all get tired of winning. I guess first loser counts as winning.