But a sizeable field remained.
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There are only 23 delegates at stake in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, and they are awarded proportionally, based on the statewide vote. While her campaign has continually argued that she’ll soon win in states with more minority voters, The New York Times reported that “Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among almost every demographic group” and many national polls show the contenders neck-and-neck. A video recently released by the campaign, emphasizing the diversity of the senator’s supporters, proclaims: “Our job is not to divide, our job is to bring people together”.
“My concern is that in January of next year, for the first time in American history, a black family will be moving out of the White House”, Sharpton said.
With more than 90 per cent of the vote counted in New Hampshire, Mr Sanders had 60 per cent to Mrs Clinton’s 38 per cent.
Due to that result, the Vermont Senator’s Dane County volunteers now feel the sky is the limit in terms of local support.
The Sanders campaign has no paid staff in Wisconsin right now, only volunteers. Clinton, meanwhile, announced plans to campaign with the mother of Sandra Bland, whose death while in police custody became a symbol of racial tensions. SC and Nevada, where both parties will stage nominating contests before month’s end.
“Yes, we’re going to compete here”. Senator Bernie Sanders is also courting those voters, meeting Wednesday with the Reverend Al Sharpton in NY before appearing on ABC’s “The View“. “But he doesn’t have to go down there and be the story coming out SC like he is tonight”.
“We love God, we’re gun owners, military veterans and we’re fed up with what’s happening in Washington”, Cruz said. But Sanders is expected to face uphill contests against Clinton in contests later this month in Nevada and SC.
There are some signs that the populist rhetoric of this election cycle has touched new GOP voters.
Sanders’ 21-point victory over Clinton, though not unexpected after surging in recent polls, was a monumental achievement for a candidate who started out with less than 5 percent of the vote (trailing by 44 percent at one point last year) and calling for a revolution to fundamentally address economic and political inequality.
For some Republican leaders, back-to-back victories by Trump and Cruz, an uncompromising conservative, add urgency to the need to coalesce around a more mainstream candidate. A candidate needs 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination.
Winning 35.2 per cent of the vote, Mr Trump, the wealthy businessman whose blunt language and outsider image have electrified many Republicans and horrified others, benefited from an unusually large field of candidates that split the vote among traditional politicians such as Governor John Kasich of OH, who finished second with 15.8 per cent, and former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida.
“In this campaign, you’ve heard a lot about Washington and about Wall Street”, she said. “And if the country doesn’t solve its problems, it gets flabby”.
While Bush’s advisers were overjoyed at beating Rubio, Bush seemed to have trouble making his fourth-place showing look like a win in a state where he predicted he’d win, spent more than anyone else and had about 100 events.
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It’s down to Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio, but there isn’t one clear front-runner. Whether Tuesday’s results have hurt Rubio in SC is unclear. After a rally in Bluffton, he said voters in New Hampshire “pushed the pause button” on anointing any candidate – and turned to his brother, George W. Bush, for help.
