Donald Trump claimed that Sen. Ted Cruz stole his Iowa caucus win in a tweet early this morning. In an initial posting on Twitter, the Republican presidential frontrunner wrote “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any way he got more votes than anticipated. Bad!” He deleted this posting, fixed his spelling, and took out the word “illegally” in a new version of the tweet that remains up. After a string of tweets blasting the Cruz campaign’s controversial “voter violation” mailers and an email that seemed to suggest Ben Carson was dropping out of the GOP race, Trump accused the Texas senator of “fraud,” said the Monday results should be nullified, and demanded a do-over.
