Texas senator had a sophisticated ground game that recruited volunteers across the state and used detailed psychological profiling techniques to sway votersIowa caucus results: track the votes,county by countyTexas maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) Ted Cruz dramatically burst the bubble of Donald Trump on Monday in a surprise victory over his Republican rival in the Iowa caucus that supporters hope will herald a rightwing resurgence to match that of Ronald Reagan.
Ignoring the media-friendly bombast of Trump in favor of a purer strain of anti-establishment conservatism, Republicans in the state voted in favor of Cruz, and according to initial projections by the Associated Press.
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Source: theguardian.com