Donald Trump, who gave a gracious concession Monday night after finishing second to Ted Cruz in Iowa, took to Twitter on Tuesday accusing the Texas senator of fraud and calling for the caucus results to be nullified.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets with attendees during a campaign stop Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, in Milford, N.H.
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Cruz responded in a Tweet by noting that Democrat Bernie Sanders had not conceded in Iowa to Hillary Clinton. “Maybe Donald should go back to IA & join the Ds,” wrote Cruz.
The New York billionaire accused the Cruz campaign of telling GOP caucusgoers before they voted that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was dropping out of the race. The false information – for which Cruz apologized to Carson – was based on a CNN report that Carson was not heading to New Hampshire to campaign, as were the other candidates. Carson competed directly with Cruz for the evangelical vote, which made up over half of the GOP caucus results.