Dirty Tricks (Note Added February 07, 2016 to Cruz)
Donald
Trump claimed that Cruz stole the Iowa election and he might well have
as he pulled two dirty tricks right before and during the caucuses.
The first and most mild one is:
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is defending a campaign mailer that Iowa’s secretary of state says misrepresents election law.
(1)The mailer bills itself as a “voting violation” notice and tells the
recipient it’s been sent due to “low expected voter turnout in your
area.” It then grades the recipient’s voting history and that of several
neighbors, citing public records.
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Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate says in a statement that there’s “no
such thing” as an election violation related to voting frequency and
that insinuating otherwise is “not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa
Caucuses.”
It is not clear to me that this notice benefited
Cruz except that expect he sent to to districts or more elderly people
where he thought he might benefit. It has been said that the names and
the number of elections they have missed do not track and that the
notice is just made up.*
(2)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on
Wednesday accused rival Ted Cruz of stealing a victory in the Iowa
caucuses and called for another vote or nullification of Cruz's win.
Trump had gone into Monday's caucus
voting ahead of the Texas senator by 5 percentage points in a key poll
but Cruz ended up winning, four points ahead of the New York
billionaire.
"Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it," Trump (@realDonaldTrump) tweeted. "That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!"
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Trump, who finished second behind Cruz,
lit up Twitter on Wednesday with a series of posts saying the outcome
was tainted because the Cruz campaign had deliberately spread
misinformation about Trump's stand on Obamacare and an erroneous report that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.**
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"The press is reporting that Dr. Ben Carson is taking time off from the
campaign trail after Iowa and making a big announcement next week," the
Cruz email read, according to CNN. "Please inform any Carson caucusgoers (sic)
of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz."
I wonder what dirty tricks Cruz has planned for New Hampshire?
* http://nbc4i.com/2016/01/31/ted-cruz-campaign-sends-iowans-notice-of-voting-violation
** http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/trump-ted-cruz-stole-iowa-caucuses
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