MANCHESTER, N.H. Now officially a victor after clinching New Hampshire, Donald Trump faced a fresh test for his once-improbable campaign as the Republican presidential race careened into more conservative territory in SC. Considering that Cruz is polling at a consistent second in SC, it seems he can shift most, if not all, of his attention to pulling Trump from the throne. Ted Cruz have been dominating in polls across the South. If you combine Trump and Kasich’s numbers, Bernie still beats both of them by almost 5,000 votes.
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Rubio’s senior team concedes the New Hampshire setback will extend the Republican nomination fight for at least another three months, if not longer.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s still-struggling campaign is unlikely to pose a threat to Kasich at the ballot box, but attack ads from Bush’s well-financed allies could weigh Kasich down.
I’m not into organized religion.
A disappointing sixth-place finish in Tuesday’s New Hampshire nominating contest raised doubts about the combative New Jersey governor’s viability as a candidate for the November 8 presidential election.
It’s also hard to spin a third- or fourth-place finish for Bush as a positive, given the many millions of dollars he spent here and the fact that he led in the state last summer. “I’m not gonna sit there and be a marshmallow and have somebody pound me”.
“We learned a lot about ground games in one week – I have to tell you that”, Trump said. Republicans head to SC, a hotbed of tea party groups and evangelical voters that will test Trump’s staying power.
When Trump gets to SC on Wednesday, he isn’t likely to find any GOP leaders in the Palmetto State who are eager to embrace his campaign.
Rubio has major backing in SC from Senate colleague Tim Scott and other major statewide figures.
– Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders swept to victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, adding crucial credibility to their upstart candidacies and underscoring the insistence of voters in both parties on shaking up American politics. Marco Rubio has stumbled following his poor debate performance. “It’s not going to happen”.
Yet as in Iowa, where Democrats are only reluctantly releasing the vote counts from precincts, overall Democratic turnout in New Hampshire seems to be down from 2008. Bernie Sanders soared in New Hampshire and now two polls have him tying her nationally.
Trump, meanwhile, attributed part of his victory to his tough stances on trade, border security and ISIS. “And Senator Sanders coming here this morning further makes it clear that we will not be ignored”. And Sanders made a pit stop in NY to discuss issues affecting African-Americans over breakfast with the Rev. Al Sharpton. We know about… trade. While he said Trump has said some “entertaining stuff, some of it is not so entertaining”.
It wasn’t because they loved Dole, Cullen said, but because they feared Buchannan would embarrass the Republican Party. Looking ahead to the upcoming races in SC and Nevada, Clinton said Sanders’ call for cracking down on Wall Street is not enough. “I am starting to think it could be true”.
The campaign circulated talking points to surrogates and supporters to drive the point home.
The New Hampshire runner-up, Ohio. Mr. Cruz, who, like Mr. Santorum, profited from the support of religious conservatives in Iowa, now points to SC, where that constituency is a powerful force. The South Carolina senator endorsed Bush after abandoning his own hopes for the presidency in December. Sure. But in one of the night’s most shocking exit poll results, fully two-thirds of primary voters agreed with the idea of “temporarily banning Muslims who are not us citizens from entering the U.S”.
In particular, he will be questioned on whether he’s prepared to serve as the county’s commander in chief at a time when national security is of utmost importance. “The people want real change”, he said. “Here in SC particularly, that’s an important issue”.
Rubio doesn’t believe he needs to win any of the first four primaries.
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The night before, Clinton urged supporters to look to the future.
