Trump: Cruz Has ‘Put Everything He Has into Iowa’

GEIST: “Hey, Donald, it’s Willie, good to talk to you on this caucus morning.”
TRUMP: “Hello Willie.”
GEIST: “Ted Cruz obviously is your closest challenger here tonight. A lot of people are saying if you beat him tonight, he’s finished going forward in this race. Is it your mission tonight to finish off Ted Cruz?”
TRUMP: “No, not to finish him off. I don’t think he’ll be finished but he’ll be certainly hurt, because he’s put everything he can into Iowa. He put every single person, he put all of his money and he put a lot of effort. As you know, he’s doing terribly in New Hampshire. He’s not doing well after Iowa, this is sort of, you know, his hope I guess, is to do well in Iowa to win it and to then do better in New Hampshire than he’s doing right now. So I really don’t know — I know that we’re doing really well in New Hampshire, you look at New Hampshire, I say it in one world, I think we have a 25-point lead just came out yesterday. So it’s going to be — Willie, all I can say is let’s see what happens. He’s got a tremendous number of people here but I tell you what I have so much spirit, the spirit of the people, we gave yesterday, Dr. Jerry Falwell endorsed me. And a lot of people say that Donald’s doing really well with the evangelicals and that’s true, we have tremendous support and they really like me a lot. And they like — you know, I won’t say the reasons why because it may sound braggadocious, but I can say they like strength for the country and they can see that. And they like the strong military and they like the borders and I’m the real borders. We also had Sheriff Joe from Arizona endorse me two days ago. You know, he is — if you talk about borders, there’s nobody like him on the borders that we know and that meant something. And of course, Sarah Palin who’s terrific and she endorsed me very strongly and everybody thought she was going to endorse Cruz and she said she just couldn’t do it, she thought our campaign was so amazing and it’s a movement. It’s literally a movement, I’ve never seen anything like it. We go to a room, we think, you know, we’re going to have just a small gathering and we end up with 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 people. So, it’s been —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. Mike Barnicle.”
TRUMP: “— you know, we have the biggest crowds. We have actually much bigger crowds than Bernie, but he is second, I will say, because it is amazing what he’s done also. But he also gets very good crowds, but it’s been amazing.”