Bernie Sanders said Wednesday morning that he would participate in a Democratic debate this week in New Hampshire after some negotiating between his campaign and presidential rival Hillary Clinton.
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz soundly defeated billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa’s Republican nominating contest on Monday, upending the party’s presidential race and creating a three-way competition with establishment candidate Senator Marco Rubio.
Those were the thoughts of Republican president hopeful Ted Cruz after his victory in the Iowa Caucus.
The race could be reset yet again in New Hampshire eight days from now. Like their fellow voters in Iowa, Democrats in New Hampshire will be weighing in on what they want, more so than how to get it. Want a financial system that isn’t run by big business?
But the playing field in New Hampshire will be considerably different.
In the Democratic race, Clinton had 49.8 percent support to 49.6 percent for Sanders with 94 percent of precincts reporting.
Sanders is leading Clinton in New Hampshire right now, which is the next state to vote.
The Iowa caucus has come and gone.
Sanders celebrated his stronger-than-expected showing in Iowa, landing at dawn in Bow and addressing a hardy group of supporters who met him.
That work paid off Monday as GOP officials smoothly handled a record turnout that gave Ted Cruz a victory over Donald Trump. While campaigning for his wife in the Palmetto State, former president Bill Clinton took a few jabs at then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida, who beat expectations with a solid third-place showing of 23 percent – well ahead of his pre-caucus average in the polls of 17 percent.
A national Washington Post-ABC News poll late last month found Clinton holding a roughly 40-point lead among nonwhite Democratic-leaning voters.
“It looks like it’s a three-way race” between Cruz, Rubio and Trump, said Suffolk County Republican chairman John Jay LaValle. “If Sanders had won half of the coin tosses and split the six delegates three and three with Clinton, he would have finished at 698.49 delegates to Clinton’s 696.57”.
Clinton, in New Hampshire Tuesday campaigning ahead of the state’s February 9 primary, said she was “so proud I am coming to New Hampshire after winning Iowa” adding, “I’ve won and I’ve lost there and it’s a lot better to win”.
That’s why Bernie Sanders was here just a week ago campaigning and it’s why Hillary Clinton’s daughter is holding rallies across the state. Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Martin O’Malley dropped out as Iowa’s results were rolling in.
Clinton on Tuesday urged voters to get practical and ask themselves “does this just sound good on paper or does this get done?”
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Susan Duprey, who served as chief of staff to Ann Romney, Mitt Romney’s wife, in 2011 and 2012, announced her support for the Florida senator on Tuesday night.
