BREAKING: Ted Cruz Wins Iowa Caucuses

In Surprise Upset, Texas Tea Party Evangelical Beats Billionaire Donald Trump

Ted Cruz has won the Iowa Caucuses. 

Despite trailing the GOP frontrunner in Iowa and nationwide polls, the Texas Tea Party Evangelical has beat Donald Trump. Most Iowa polls had Trump beating Cruz by high single-digits.

Cruz is running on a platform of promising to revoke or repeal nearly every advancement President Barack Obama has made, from Obamacare to LGBT civil rights, from education to science to immigration.

Huge turnout helped propel Cruz to a win. Nearly half of the Iowa caucus voters are first-timers. 

Trump has insulted and attacked nearly every minority, and women, and every one of his opponents, mercilessly. He has appeared anything but presidential, he has spent little money on advertising, and most of all, has ignored the basics of retail politics 101 – shaking hands and getting to know Iowa voters. Trump entered the race calling Mexicans “rapists” and quickly catapulted to first place, and held it almost every single week.

The billionaire real estate titan managed to slough off his more Democratic beliefs, including supporting a woman’s right to choose, and appealed to the xenophobic, nationalistic, racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, bullying mass of the Republican Party. He has been embraced by the GOP’s evangelicals – despite clearly not having much understanding of the Christian religion or the Bible. He’s been embraced by the ultra-conservatives, by moderates, by Tea Party supporters, and by white supremacists.

Yet Cruz managed to overcome these odds to go on to win the first race of the 2016 presidential campaign season. The next primary is New Hampshire, on February 9.

Stay tuned to The New Civil Rights Movement for final results from the Democrats in the Iowa Caucuses, later this evening.

UPDATE:

Cruz wins with 28 percent, Trump takes 24 percent, and Rubio, 23 percent. Here’s how the delegates look now:

 

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