“Iowa and New Hampshire ceased being the alpha and omega a long time ago”.
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“Now we take this campaign to the entire country”, Clinton said. Trump has led national polls for months and the New Hampshire victory reinforces his position as front-runner, proving he can win votes and adding credibility to his upstart populist candidacy.
After finishing behind Cruz in Iowa last week, Trump embraced some of the more traditional trappings of presidential campaigns, including smaller town hall events with voters.
“We’re going to win in South Carolina”, Trump told supporters.
At a polling station in Manchester, Joan and Roland Martineau said they voted for the two candidates they believed they could trust to shake things up. After his second-place finish in Iowa, he accepted some of the more traditional trappings of presidential campaigns, including smaller town hall meetings with voters.
The battle for the third place is under way among Marco Rubio, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the victor of the Iowa caucuses Texas Senator Ted Cruz. That new dynamic could come into play as soon as South Carolina’s February 20 primary, sinceChristie is already reassessing his campaign.
CREATIVE WRITING | Candidate Bill Clinton masterfully framed his second-place finish in New Hampshire in 1992 as a big victory for the “Comeback Kid”. But he stumbled in a debate Saturday under intense pressure from Christie who cast the young senator as too inexperienced and too reliant on memorized talking points to become president.
At stake Tuesday were less than 1 percent of the delegates who, at party national conventions in July, will choose nominees to succeed President Barack Obama.
Mrs Clinton conceded defeat but said she would continue to “fight for every vote in every state”.
Almost two-thirds of New Hampshire voters agreed the United States should temporarily ban Muslims who are not American citizens from entering the country.
Their wins Tuesday sent the confounding campaign on to SC after a chastening night for Democrat Hillary Clinton and a muddled one for the legions of anti-Trump Republicans pining for someone to rise from the pack and take him down. “As a public servant, it requires me to do all that I can to ensure that every person lives with dignity and security”.
Now money matters. She’s spent a lot.
Clinton’s campaign argues she will perform better as the race heads to more racially diverse states, including Nevada and SC.
Sanders, once labeled a “fringe candidate” by his detractors, received majority support from younger voters and was narrowly favored by women.
Overall, Clinton has amassed at least 392 delegates and Sanders at least 42; the magic number to clinch the nomination is 2,382.
New Hampshire voters on Tuesday night – Republicans and Democrats alike, as well as the state’s famously independent undeclared voters – delivered a sharp rebuke to politics as usual. But it won’t be much of a lead. Among them: The Congressional Black Caucus political action committee promised to make its endorsement after New Hampshire.
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On how this helps Trump: “This win brings back the momentum Trump needed to move forward in SC”.
