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Iowa Republicans pick Cruz

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a caucus night rally as his wife Heidi listens Monday in Des Moines, Iowa. Cruz sealed a victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses, winning on the strength of his relentless campaigning and support from his party's diehard conservatives. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a caucus night rally as his wife Heidi listens Monday in Des Moines, Iowa. Cruz sealed a victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses, winning on the strength of his relentless campaigning and support from his party's diehard conservatives. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife bounded on stage at Cruz's Iowa campaign headquarters, hugging and shaking hands with supporters. "Iowa has sent notice that the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media," Cruz said. "Will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by lobbyists." The next president, the Iowa Republican Caucus winner said, will be chosen by the people. The first-term senator proclaimed that he would ride to the White House by embracing what made the country great: free-market principles and Judeo-Christian values/Oregonian. More here.

Question: What does this mean for Donald Trump?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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