With that bit of political history out of the way, it can be said without qualification that Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary proved an quake has hit the Republican and Democratic parties.
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Florida’s Senate president-elect Joe Negron, R-Stuart, a top Bush supporter who was in New Hampshire in early January attending his town hall meetings, said the former two-term Florida governor has a national campaign organization and is ready to compete in every state.
According to Democrats, Hillary Clinton will now begin sweeping the primaries, winning most of the other states and most of their delegates. This year, the same share of the vote handed her a 29-point loss.
Listen to Atif’s response here or read the transcript below. In this new phase, where primaries start coming fast and voters have less time to get to know a candidate and tend to fall back on brand loyalty.
The race then proceeds to Super Tuesday, when a slew of contests take place on a single day and candidates are forced to take to the airwaves.
“You vote for Trump, we win here, we’re going to run the table”.
“I got, so far, in the last couple of days one hour of sleep, because when you have victory, you don’t need sleep”, Trump said.
Bernie Sanders is also reaching out African American voters. “You made it happen”.
Lost for the moment amid the shake-up in the second tier of the Republican race is the fact that Donald Trump dramatically consolidated his position as front-runner in the tangled race. So I think that’s why you’re seeing a high turnout and I think that’s why you’re seeing a movement of both of the candidates.
“He won fair and square”, Kasich said, responding to booing from the audience. After faring poorly in both states, Christie ended his campaign. They’re living their lives … and they get political news in bits and pieces. Older voters cast an estimated 28 percent of the total Democratic votes in Iowa, and 17 percent in New Hampshire.
The results will hand the winners the momentum going into the next confrontations in SC for the Republicans and Nevada for the Democrats.
Listen to Saba’s response here or read the transcript below.
Senator Bernie Sanders’ support swells in New Hampshire’s seven nonmetropolitan counties. It likely adds up to an even more muddled Republican race after SC. We are excited about all of our candidates and hope to change their views on Islam and Muslims. All provide Trump with the chance to consolidate his support before any other candidate amasses enough delegates to pose a real threat.
“Over time, I sure do”. Yesterday’s results probably shook up a lot of people here in Washington, D.C., but I think it’s for the better. After listening to Trump and Carson whine for a week about Ted Cruz, it was looking like the GOP was going to be a party of perma-weaklings like the Dems. I think he has the skills to really turn things around for our economy and to create jobs and things. “We haven’t seen America yet”.
“Because of a huge voter turnout… and I say HUUUGE… we won”, Sanders smiled. “We were just there, and we had 12,000 people in a wonderful, wonderful arena”, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
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