It backfired, as their other slimey tactics have.
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Slimey tactics seem to all be yours.
Your butt hurt is your own fault; Trump had offered no reason for anyone to be swooning over him. He didn’t have a chance in Iowa, and his phony birther attack was the slimiest event of this election cycle.
Yeah, it “backfired” so bad that Cruz won Iowa convincingly and now his numbers will go up in the other states.