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 NASHUA, N.H.—Still riding a wave of confidence after winning the Iowa Caucuses, Ted Cruz was in rare form Wednesday night as he mocked Donald Trump over everything from losing Iowa to a previous record of liberal policy positions. 
 
 “Have you noticed Donald doesn’t take losing well?” he said at a town hall here. “Donald told us every day for a year he was going to win Iowa, win it big, win it ‘yuuuuuge,’” he said, poking at Trump’s speaking style. 
 
 “I don’t think people are interested in temper tantrums, or you could call it a ‘Trumpertantrum,’” he continued, when asked about a number of criticisms Trump has thrown at him recently, including that his Monday night win in Iowa was fraudulent. 
 
 Cruz’s comments came hours after his first major escalation of attacks of the day, when he suggested Trump’s temperament was so poor that he might be inclined to "nuke Denmark," and Cruz also suggested his young daughters were more mature than Trump. 
 
 On Wednesday night, Cruz gloated over a report that former Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s comment that he would prefer Trump over Cruz because Trump would be “malleable.” Cruz said he instructed his team to track down video of those remarks from Carter, who is deeply unpopular among Republicans. 
 
 “I read the article on my iPhone today, my comment to the team was, if there is video, get the video, I want the video, I’m going to pay to air Jimmy Carter’s attack on me,” he said. 
 
 When protesters interrupted Cruz, with some yelling about climate change, Cruz said it appeared that “these children attended the Donald Trump-style school of debate.” 
 
 And when he was asked about his wife’s ties to Goldman Sachs and an undisclosed loan from the bank in the Senate race, Cruz defended the move and pivoted back to Trump attacks. “Heidi and I did something that is very novel and unfamiliar to Donald: we paid it back,” he said to applause. “We have never declared bankruptcy, we have never stiffed a loan, we have never walked out on a loan, we paid it back.” 
 
 Cruz said Trump’s last financial disclosure form showed he had millions of dollars in loans, and “it could literally be billions of dollars he owes.” 
 
 “For him to make this attack, to use a New York term,” Cruz said, “is the height of chutzpah.” 

 NASHUA, New Hampshire — Ted Cruz feistily took on his chief rivals in a rambunctious town hall on Wednesday night, capping a spirited day for the caucus winner who hours earlier suggested his two young daughters “are better behaved” than Donald Trump. 
 
 "It’s no surprise that Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum — or, if you’d like, yet another ‘Trumpertantrum,' Cruz told reporters before an event in Goffstown, New Hampshire. “It seems that his reaction to everything is to throw a fit, to engage in insults.” 
 
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 Cruz continued on with his spirited assessments late Wednesday night at the town hall at a local middle school. He scathingly questioned the policy positions of Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in what were perhaps Cruz’s most targeted, wide-ranging remarks since entering the 2016 race. 
 
 His first critique, however, was directed at Sarah Palin, who accused his campaign of “dirty tricks” in allegedly suggesting the night of the Iowa caucus that Ben Carson had dropped out of the race. 
 
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 "You know, it’s interesting — if you spend too much time with Donald Trump, strange things happen to people,” Cruz told the crowd in response to a question from Boston conservative political radio host Jeff Kuhner. 
 
 Shifting to policy, Cruz focused several minutes on the future of healthcare in the country, taking repeated shots at the “land of pixie dust” dreamed of by candidates seeking to implement “socialized medicine." 
 
 “We don’t live in a land of pixie dust,” he explained. "I know sometimes this campaign seems like a reality TV show. But if someone wants to be president, they actually have to confront reality. The reality is, socialized medicine is a manifest disaster.” 
 
 Cruz also took aim at Trump's financial history when an audience member questioned him on his family’s connection to Goldman Sachs. Cruz's wife is on unpaid leave from the firm. 
 
 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a town hall campaign event on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Henniker, N.H. Elise Amendola / AP 
 
 In response, Cruz questioned the extent to which Trump owes money returned on his own loans. 
 
 "It could literally be billions of dollars that he owes in loans,” Cruz openly pondered before the 1,300 in attendance. "It is, for him to make this attack — to use a New York term — is the height of chutzpah.” 
 
 When the Texas senator later answered a question about climate change — which he unflinchingly told the crowd was based on “pseudo-science” — about a dozen protesters broke out into a far-from-unison chant of “climate deniers have got to go.” 
 
 Cruz took the moment, again, to dig at Trump. 
 
 “Apparently someone has invited the children to the event. And it does seem that these particular children attended the Donald Trump school of debate,” Cruz said as the protesters marched out of the auditorium. "That — if the facts are uncomfortable, simply yell and scream and stomp your feet rather than actually discuss and address the substance.” 
 
 But he also took a slight dig at the young protesters themselves for being "precious." 
 
 "I understand in our colleges there are some young people who are surrounded by trigger warnings,” Cruz continued. "They need a safe space. There are micro-aggressions that they’re very — we are raising such precious, precious, fragile young people. 
 
 Trump wasn't the only target of Cruz's criticism on Wednesday night, though. The candidate also took a swing at Rubio, telling the crowd that "Marco’s views are virtually indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton’s” on immigration, U.S. Intelligence gathering and trade policy. 
 
 Wednesday's event wrapped up a five-stop day for Cruz across the state. He continues onto four more cities in the Granite State on Thursday.
– Ted Cruz claims Donald Trump's "reaction to everything is to throw a fit, to engage in insults." On Wednesday, however, the insults were coming mainly from Cruz himself. Six biggies: At a town hall in New Hampshire, Cruz managed to turn nearly every answer into a critique of his rival. "Donald told us every day for a year he was going to win Iowa, win it big, win it 'yuuuuuge,'" he said, per Politico. "I don't think people are interested in temper tantrums, or you could call it a 'Trumpertantrum.'" Earlier Wednesday, Cruz said his young daughters "are better behaved" than Trump ... ... who might suddenly get angry and "nuke Denmark" if elected president, per NBC News. When a town-hall audience member asked about Sarah Palin accusing the Cruz campaign of "dirty tricks," echoing similar words from Trump, Cruz responded: "If you spend too much time with Donald Trump, strange things happen to people." When protesters interrupted Cruz as he spoke about the "pseudo-science" behind climate change, he said it seemed "these children attended the Donald Trump-style school of debate." And when he was asked about an undisclosed loan he received while running for Senate, Cruz said that "Heidi and I did something that is very novel and unfamiliar to Donald: We paid it back." He then suggested Trump might owe "billions of dollars." (Of course, Trump spent Wednesday tweeting about how Cruz "illegally stole" Iowa.)