![]() Trump’s schedule this week, by contrast, illustrates his tendency to get out of town quickly. This week Cruz is crisscrossing the state in a bus, cruising through small hamlets with stops at a pizza place, coffee house and even a water park. presidential candidates typically do: He has made the state a virtual second home in the run-up to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus. ![]() Trump leads in polls in New Hampshire but he has slipped behind Cruz in Iowa. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire often want more personal attention they feel they play a special role in choosing presidential nominees because their contests are held first. Trump’s determination to sleep at home every night raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans, who say it could cost him. His nearest rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, has zigzagged around the state, holding around a dozen town halls and twice as many “meet-and-greet” sessions, and bedding down between stops in hotels. In November and December, Trump held six rallies in Iowa, visited a local production plant and held one town hall, flying home each night. REUTERS/Brian SnyderĪfter nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up his notes of a recent poll at a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire January 5, 2016.
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