Forty-five percent of caucus-goers said they were attending their first caucus, and they appeared more likely to support Trump than Cruz, 30 percent to 23 percent.
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Fresh off a win in the Iowa caucuses, Senator Ted Cruz took the stage for the first time in New Hampshire and offered this comparison: His campaign is like that of President Ronald Reagan’s New Hampshire effort in 1980.
Democrats spent much of the day wrestling over the Iowa results. But the result will be a wake-up call to her campaign.
If he is the nominee, “we’re going to beat Hillary Clinton and we’re going to turn America around”.
To qualify for the primary ballot, Democratic presidential contenders need a minimum of 5,000 signatures, as well as 500 signatures from each of the state’s 27 congressional districts to field delegate slates.
“Hillary Clinton emerged from Iowa with a razor-thin victory over Bernie Sanders – and a new round of nervous second-guessing from supporters”. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary. Still, he has been leading the polls in New Hampshire.
He criticized Cruz for putting out a statement saying that a fellow candidate, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, was quitting the race, and accused Cruz of lying to thousands of voters about Trump’s policies.
Looking specifically at clusters of donors that make up the Republican Party “establishment” – power centers on Wall Street in NY and K Street in Washington – Rubio is increasingly dominant.
He later charged that Cruz was already “under investigation” for the voter violation mailers when asked if he’d spoken to Iowa election officials about his complaints. Since then, however, he has resorted to his old ways, tweeting an extended riff on the Cruz campaign’s highly suspect way of courting and pressuring Iowa voters.
“I’m not thinking that far ahead”, she told CNN. Cruz held an evening rally in Greenville, South Carolina, before returning to New Hampshire. Cruz eclipsed Trump 34 percent to 22 percent among that group. His campaign announced the endorsement of South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Tuesday endorsed Rubio, his Senate colleague.
The establishment largely finds Trump and Cruz objectionable, with concerns that the party will lose the general election if one of the two wins the nomination. “Instead of saying, ‘Unbelievable job!’ they said, ‘Well, yeah, he did all right'”.
That won’t be easy.
For Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Hampshire increasingly looked like a do-or-die proposition: Show some momentum or pack it up. All three are hoping the state will breathe life into their flagging campaigns.
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“It’s, frankly, unprecedented”, Cruz told reporters Tuesday night on a flight from New Hampshire to SC. For Republicans, the pivot to New Hampshire meant the still-crowded cast of the candidates turned toward a less religious and mostly undecided electorate. Donors can contribute unlimited amounts of money to super PACs, a system that’s helped some candidates stay in the presidential contest even as their campaign fundraising lags. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign stop at the Claremont Opera House, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, in Claremont, N.H.
