Sanders is leading Clinton in New Hampshire right now, which is the next state to vote. “He weathered $30 million in negative ads and late deciders broke his way due to his upbeat and optimistic close”, said Republican strategist Scott Reed.
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In poll after poll and fundraising total after fundraising total, nothing has proven further from the truth, a result Iowa has only confirmed. “Last night illustrated that the old Reagan coalition is coming back together”.
In 2004 then-Massachusetts Senator John Kerry claimed the prize in New Hampshire in a landslide primary election.
Four years before that Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis was the victor.
Sanders’ campaign had told The Hill on Tuesday that he wouldn’t appear at the debate unless Hillary Clinton agreed to more debates. He beat her by an astounding 70 points those aged 17-29. Clinton’s support in Iowa’s cities and suburbs on Monday night proved robust; voters from minority groups that in 2008 supported Obama are now firmly in her camp; and she maintains virtually absolute support of the party establishment, with Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, earning no endorsements from his colleagues.
Sanders said his campaign is now mulling over whether to contest the results given the razor-thin margin.
In accordance with the official tally released early Tuesday with 100 percent of the 1,681 precincts being counted, Clinton garnered 49.8 percent while Sanders won 49.6 percent. According to the New York Times, a Democratic candidate needs 2,382 delegates to win the nomination. With few and minor exceptions, Sanders has taken large bite after large bite over Clinton’s national lead, shrinking it from almost 40 points in August to roughly 12 today.
‘We’ve tried to be very accommodating but, you know, we have agreed with everything that they have asked us to do, ‘ Clinton said today on CNN.
“I don’t make a practice of scapegoating staff members when it’s politically convenient”, Cruz added.
“We’re in this for the long haul”, Sanders told reporters as he arrived in New Hampshire where polls put him as a strong favorite.
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.
-With assistance from Erik Larson in NY. “They told me that we have no chance because my hair wasn’t gray enough and my boots were too high”.
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Trump’s complaints: What Cruz said about the billionaire’s positions on Obamacare and abortion; controversial mailers Cruz sent to caucus-goers; and how the Cruz campaign alerted caucus-goers to rival Ben Carson’s decision to go home after the caucuses, stoking speculation he would drop out.
