“He needs to go into SC and participate down there and participate reasonably well”. It is likely more candidates on the Republican side will drop out. “So we haven’t seen any polls yet to kind of see where SC voters stand now, but she was leading by nearly 30 points”.
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Noting that he was greatly honored by his sweeping victory in New Hampshire, Trump said he thinks he will do very well in SC. Bernie Sanders appeared on The View, and it would seem the win emboldened him to speak freely – even more freely than usual. In the months leading up to Tuesday’s primary, both Kasichs campaign and the super PAC supporting him unleashing a torrent of attack ads against Trump in New Hampshire.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich talks to Logan Peschiera during his last town hall before Tuesday’s first in the nation presidential primary Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.
In this campaign, you’ve heard a lot about Washington and about Wall Street.
Fans answered back with a wave of donations, resulting in $5.2 million given to the campaign in just the 18 hours between when the polls in NH closed and the following afternoon. Trump is still at the top.
I hate to waste time on this guy because he’s not going to win”, he said of Bush during a rally at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. “I’ve spent less money than anybody else and I’m number one. “I would be surprised if it’s not May or the convention”.
Ms Clinton told a young woman the same day that she has to walk a “narrower path” because she has “got to be aware of the fact that I’m trying to be the first woman President of the United States of America, and there has never been one before, and so people don’t have, you know, an image”. With Trump now officially sporting a win under his belt, and large leads in every single upcoming primary on the calendar, the GOP now finally has to make a choice: pick an establishment challenger and have the other candidates drop out, or prepare to hand the nomination to Trump.
The people of this tiny, more than 90 percent white New England state provided their usual wintry crucible for presidential candidates to interact on a small stage before plunging into the big states and clustered primaries that can eat wannabes (or at least their bank accounts) alive.
How important is the ground game in SC? What does it say about the Clinton campaign that she won Iowa in a photo finish and lost New Hampshire – which she won in 2008 – by such a wide margin? Clinton has been campaigning in beauty shops and barber shops and going to pastors and speaking at NAACP events.
It’s going to get hard for high- profile Democrats who support Clinton and high-profile Republicans who oppose Trump.
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Jamie Self, political reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, and its politics blog The Buzz.
