our mailer was modeled after the very successful 2014 mailers that the republican party of iowa distributed to motivate republican voters to vote and which helped elect numerous republican candidates during that cycle. some voters who received them have posted them online and said that they are quite offended because it looked so official, it came in an envelope, even though it was marked it was from the reelection campaign, finally the secretary of state here in iowa issued a statement saying that this was a piece of literature from the cruz presidential campaign and that it mist represents the role of my office and worse mist represents iowa election law and he said that because it suggested if you read it sort of briefly and you are not a regular political participant and looking at this that somehow you might be in trouble if you didn't go to a caucus. of course, it is a right, it is a privilege, but it is not an obligation to participate in the caucuses. todd. >> of course. kerry sanders, you've got to give the trump campaign credit for making what is a routine political mailer somethi

election officials nonetheless condemned the mailer. iowa's republican secretary of state saying it, quote, misrepresents the role of my office and worse, misrepresents iowa election law. cruz defended the mailer as routine while donald trump slammed him for it. >> the chairman of our campaign put out a public statement saying these mailers are routine. that the iowa republican party has done so in the past, and past elections. and i will apologize to nobody for using every tool we can to encourage iowa voters to come out and vote. our country is in crisis. >> i guess it's something that has been done. it's not allowed to be done. then they're giving you "fs" for your voting records and they're saying, immediately come and vote. i think it's one of the most horrible things that i've seen in politics, and i've seen pretty bad stuff just like you have. and this just came out. and now as you know, he's under investigation by the attorney general or whomever in iowa. >> should say that this time it does not appear that cruz is under any kin

nobody's told me about a mailer. >> the battle of the mailers goes back and forth. know that this is something that charges have been levied both ways. thank you both very much. >>> a unique two-night town hall event, you'll see both of these candidates as well as the other gop candidates, all six of them will answer questions from the voters of south carolina. john kasich jeb bush and donald trump on thursday night. both events live at 8:00 eastern. >>> and next, a republican senator breaking ranks on a supreme court nomination. why he's saying give president obama a chance. >>> and hillary clinton with a big lead over bernie sanders. why sanders says she's in for a big surprise. t cards. it was time for experian. they gave me tools so i could finally get serious about my credit. now lenders see me for who i really am... go to experian.com and start your credit tracker trial membership today. ♪ ♪virgin islands nice ♪ ♪so nice ♪so nice, so nice ♪ spend a few days in the u.s. virgin islands and return with a lifetime of experiences. that's virgin islands nice. ♪so ni

let's look at the real big picture here and put the controversy aside on these mailers. we're talking about 54% of the voting aged americans cast a ballot. don't they deserve to be shamed? >> inherent in the right to vote is the right not to vote. if you look at the field and you decide not to participate, that's an exercise of your democratic right. this is probably why sanders is having such support. when you look at the system and it doesn't work for you, your option is to look for a candidate that voices those or not vote at all. i have friends that don't vote. i believe it is right, even if you write in an fictional name >>> talking about using pure pressure in this scenario, you're telling your neighbors brotherish? >> no. not at all. the science that he tried to use for this campaign actually suggested that when you say you should be keeping up with the joneses, even in terms of voting, you are demoralising people. the political science equivocal indicates-- equivocates whether it is effective. the mail ears may be one thing but the shame plus getting people to te

morning marco was on national television, you noted this afternoon it was revealed he had sent out a mailer virtually identical to us. >> nicole: the republican obama. rubio fired back accusing him of using negative and false attacks. >> senator cruz built campaign that he's the only conservative in the race, as people have learned more about him, he's not a consistent conservative he's a politically calculated one. caucus begins tonight, we will have full coverage. >> lauren: absolutely. forecasters saying an expected blizzard will not hate the state until after caucuses. good morning, maria, good news for potential voters. >> maria: overall not a bad scenario. we have a blizzard for most of the state of iowa, western parts and southern states of iowa could be looking at some impact. you're going to be looking at showers. that could impact voters that are going to be heading out. the blizzard doesn't get going until late tonight and also through the day on tuesday, that's when we are going to see the heavier snow totals and gusty winds. that's why we have the blizzard watches and upgraded

cruz says he's not sorry for sending out the mailers. i-35 @ mills civic i-235 @ 22nd for those of you headed out to in mind. you have to be 18 or older by election day, which is november eighth. you have to be a registered republican or democrat, but you can do that at your caucus location tonight. you have to be in the door ready to go by 7 p-m. so plan to get there early, especially if you need to register. you can find your precinct by visiting iowa democrats dot org or iowa g-o-p dot org. we put links on our website at w-h-o t-v dot com. some iowans will be forced to choose caucus.. or basketball tonight. norwalk is moving its boys and girls games against pella christian from tuesday to caucus night. the dowling southeast polk game was also moved to tonight. tuesday's expected snow storm... and dowling's athletic director says both players and school staff were fine with the change. many hawkeye fans spent their sunday focused on basketball... not politicians. back home last night at carver- hawkeye arena against northwestern. after

oh, this mailer. so he's now doing a mailer. he's a bad guy calling him a lying guy yesterday in my interview. a lying guy. >> i think it's important that it's instructive about what trump is willing to do and able to do. he was behind here two weeks ago, three weeks ago and he made sure that he could pull ahead and he pulled ahead. >> all you guys know this political system. how do you have that hoodspa and say, he's my compadre, my partner, we agree on everything, and then in one moment he's illegal, he's constitutional, and just turn on the guy. like, frightening! >> if we do it on abortion and a host of other issues, why not do it on ted cruz? >> having said he was eligible, to say he's ineligible -- >> i don't buy that the relationship was ever that warm. it was cruz who was courting trump, cruz who was going to trump tower. trump never really needed cruz. it was cruz who was looking for the trump voters. >> it's at both ends. >> cruz said, i'm tired of you drafting me. i'm tired of you cruising behind me in the bike race h

do you denounce the mailer that your pac sent. >> i haven't seen the mailer. second not from my campaign. third, we are at a stage where i had close to $35 million of adds run against me. many from jeb bush's super back. down to the final moments. i have tremendous respect for the bush family, jeb, no matter what happens in the campaign. i will have admiration, respect, for him. this is not about him, his family. . future of the country. going to be in the 21st century. >> we feel very good. did well in iowa. strong second. would have come in first had the votes not shifted from ben which was a terrible thing that was done to ben carson in my opinion. frankly i think we are doing really well in new hampshire. tomorrow. not what i want. >> you want a big turnout. >> i want a big turnout. snowstorms generally don't help. >> boy, looks like. >> we are doing really well. we watched the debate. seemed look you and jeb bush go into it. he stepped up his attacks on you. >> well, you know he is trying to show he is a tough guy. he is not. he is the opposite. he spent

iowa secretary of state paul pate is criticizing his campaign for this mailer... in addition to reading "voter violation"... it also gives voters a score... and tells recipients to caucus in order to improve their score... channel 13's political director sat down with cruz who said he's not sorry for sending out the mailers. "i will apologize to no one for using every tool we can to encourage people to come out and vote for the caucuses. our country is in crisis." cruz fired up iowans during a late night rally at the iowa yesterday. his campaign estimated more than 11-hundred people filled the room. the senator will be there again tonight for his caucus night watch party. many hawkeye fans spent their sunday focused on basketball... not politicians. back home last night at carver- hawkeye arena against northwestern. after just 9 points against maryland jarrod uthoff bounces back... iowa leads by 16 at the half. peter jok brings the hawks a total of 26 points. hawks win this one easily, 85-71. meanwhile also uni back home against southern illinois. still ahead on t

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also fighting back this morning over controversial mailers... telling iowa voters their turnout will be *graded* by state election officials.iowa election officials blasted the mailer as misleading... but cruz is refusing to apologize. on the democratic side... it's a tight race between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. sanders' volunteers knocked on 75-thousand doors this weekend alone.he finds himself trailing clinton by three points. "what our job is in the next 24 hours is to make sure there is a large voter turnout." meanwhile... clinton got some last-second support on the campaign trail from her husband... bill and daughter... chelsea. a group of local high school students are getting a real world lesson on politics. they're watching the iowa caucuses... *in* iowa. these are pictures of students cleves... at some of this weekend's campaign rallies.the students in the school's a-p u-s government and politics class met ben carson and hillary clinton saturday.they also made it to trump and sanders rallies yesterday.the students had planned

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. >>> ted cruz is coming under fire for sending mailers to iowa voters designed to look like official documents that accused them of a voting violation. >> the envelopes are labeled election alert. the document inside includes the voter's voting score, even information about their neighbors. >> iowa secretary of the state is calling the mailer deceptive. cruz is refusing to apologize for what some are calling voter intimidation. stay with abc news later this morning, george and robin will and david muir will report from des moines on "world news tonight." count on abcnews.com with updates throughout the night. >>> the next republican debate right here on abc, folks, this saturday after iowa and just days before the new hampshire primaries, moderated by david muir and co-anchor martha raddatz of "this week." >>> iowa is bracing for a major snowmakers expected to ramp up just after tonight's polls. flagstaff, arizona, could see as much as 15 inches of snow. yes, that is lightning you see there. strong winds could trigger whiteout conditions. >>> in southern, high winds gusting up 40 mil

iowa's secretary of state denounced the mailer as deceptive. over at the ankeny diner these folks are still truly undecided. jk: and when are you going to make that decision? maybe 7pm tomorrow? (everyone laughs) the democratic presidential candidates will make closing arguments to new hampshire voters on wednesday. votes are cast in that state's first-in- the-nation primary. former secretary of state hillary clinton, vermont senator bernie sanders and former maryland governor martin o'malley will each field questions from town hall participants you can watch the town hall this wednesday on cnn. vo the local culinary union isn't backing any candidate before nevada's caucuses next month. the union represents thousands of casino workers here in the valley. right now, the groups says it is focusing on the general election instead. the union backed barack obama back in 2008 during his primary race with hillary clinton. union leaders say--they want to focus on getting thousands of people to vote, but they also want to concentrate on growing their ra

voting score, even information about their neighbors. >> iowa secretary of the state is calling the mailer deceptive. cruz is refusing to apologize for what some are calling voter intimidation. stay with abc news later this morning, george a robin will be live from iowa on "good morning america." and david muir will report from des moines on "world news tonight." count on abcnews.com with updates throughout the night. right heren abc, folks, this saturday after iowa and just days before the new hampshire primaries, moderatedy david muir and co-anchor martha raddatz of "this week." >>> iowa is bracing for a major snowmakers expected to ramp up just after tonight's polls. flagstaff, arizona, could see as mu as 15 inches of snow. yes, that is lightning you see there. strong winds could trigger whiteout conditions. >>> in southern, high winds gusting up 40 miles per hour, uprooting trees. one of the falling trees killed a driver in san diego. >>> the latest radar shows those powerful storms now headed northeast. impacting the central rookies and central plains, eventually taking aim at the g g

the point is this voter violation mailer. did ted cruz know his campaign was arguably committing a misdemeanor? >> you know who should be mad about this ted cruz/ben carson thing? donald trump. if them i'm an evangelical myself, i'm going to vote cruz. maybe that could have possibly gone to trump. we'll never know. unless we do it again. >> and you can get your charge out of that. >> how many people when you look at a document like that. it is a nigerian e-mail. >> you would be surprised. we investigate a lot of these. there were problems with them in san francisco. people send out the mailers. it is like people who, refinance right now. call this number or you'll lose your house. there is a tremendous amount. >> with the vote in iowa, cruz would win by more and trump would win by l rubio would come in second. >> on that note, let's move on, shall we? >> sure, greg. who said that? he is not the front-runner. but you would think he was, is marco rubio is biggest threat to the other candidates? ahead of new hampshire. plus anot