After a tepid start, Ted Cruz plans to ‘play hard’ in Iowa

Sen. Ted Cruz wound his way through the small towns and rolling hills of western Iowa last week, doing the gruntwork of retail campaigning: shaking hands, posing for photos, giving stump speeches and, most importantly: making entreaties for support in a state that could determine the trajectory of his presidential campaign. --“Whether we win or lose, this race will be decided by the men and women gathered here,” he said last Friday to a group of mostly older people sitting on folding chairs in a conference room.

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