After Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes Press: Notorious RBG vs Notorious GOP The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Washington on edge amid SCOTUS vacancy MORE (R-Texas) won this year's Iowa caucuses, his campaign manager, Jeff Roe, reached out to share advice with the Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE campaign, according to former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.



During a panel discussion about the presidential election sponsored by Harvard Institute of Politics, Lewandowski said that Roe called him following Cruz's Iowa victory and proceeded to give him advice on securing a win in New Hampshire, Politico reported.



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A source with the knowledge of the conversation told Politico that the two campaign managers did more than just talk strategy. The source said that Roe, who had access to important polling data, shared the numbers with Lewandowski during the call.

Roe confirmed Lewandowski’s account to the Los Angeles Times . At that point in the campaign, he said, “we needed Trump” to defeat other candidates.

“We knew we had to win New Hampshire. Or I did at least for my job,” Lewandowski said during the panel discussion.



“Donald Trump changed his strategy on the Thursday before the Tuesday election in New Hampshire to go out and be positive for the rest of that cycle and then we won fairly large in a small state," he added.

When asked about the phone call, Lewandowski did not directly say if he took Roe's advice. “Some suggestions you take, some you don’t,” he told Politico.

Trump easily won New Hampshire with 35 percent of the vote in a still-crowded field.

“He said, ‘You know in New Hampshire your numbers are dropping like a rock. John Kasich is going to catch you if you don’t fundamentally change the way you’re running your campaign and go out and be positive,’” Lewandowski recalled of Roe’s phone call, as reported by Politico.“Because it used to be that when people were leaving us they were going to Cruz but Cruz wasn’t playing in New Hampshire,” he added.