It’s your choice 2016 and after a massive win in New Hampshire, Donald Trump has a full head of steam going down to the nation’s first southern primary.
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Before New Hampshire voted, Christie was set to travel to South Carolina Wednesday to attend a conservative conference and hold two campaign events Thursday, in advance of the state’s GOP primary February 20.
“He pretends to be a Republican”, responds one of them, as they all shriek. “What are we going to do?”
Amanda Coleman, 26, of Manchester, New Hampshire, said she did not think candidates should be elected based on gender, but on their stances on the issues.
Indeed, no one did.
Mr Kasich, who surged from relative obscurity in New Hampshire, has a poorly funded campaign that will struggle to keep up momentum in SC and beyond.
The so-called “establishment lane” of the GOP race is a mess.
The New Hampshire primary has finished with Donald Trump earning his first win of the cycle, and Bernie Sanders setting a record of 60 percent support, which is more than any other candidate in the history of all state primaries. Marco Rubio and Ted. He looked, in the past few days, scripted and robotic.
“My kids were watching me last night”, Rubio said of his nationally televised admission that a poor debate performance pushed voters away. And he does still has time to recover, and better resources than Kasich to deploy, but the damage may be done. New Hampshire has three metropolitan counties and seven nonmetropolitan counties. With 94 percent of precincts reporting, Sen.
In a statement last night that noted Kasich showed an “inclusive conservative message” can win, the campaign hinted at his strategy moving forward: The governor is going to aggressively campaign in SC starting today with the intent of winning early delegates before expecting to take MI on March 8. Cruz actually won Iowa, but he isn’t liked by the establishment any more than Trump is.
The results offered little clarity to the nomination battles likely to stretch on into the spring – giving the parties’ establishment fits and testing voters’ commitment to the outsider excitement.
Jeb Bush had more than $100 million in PAC money before he even announced he was running. “Christie’s campaign treasury is mostly empty, and he won’t qualify for the next debate”.
If Iowa was Sen.
Bush’s campaign late Tuesday circulated a memo showing it would go after Kasich and Rubio who “has demonstrated no respect for the nomination process and expects this to be a coronation”. And now it’s on-thank you, New Hampshire.
The remainder of the field, Dr. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, each earned less than five percent of the vote.
The runaway victory by Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist advocating nothing less than “political revolution”, spelled a deflating if expected defeat for former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, who put a courageous face on the loss and admitted she had work to do as the campaign moves south.
Women of the Granite state went to the polls in a big way, but not for Hillary Clinton.
While he credited his positive campaigning with helping to propel him to second place, Kasich declared Wednesday, however, that he’s ready for a fight.
Sanders addressed a raucous crowd of supporters at his victory party, saying his primary win signalled voters no longer wanted business as usual in USA political life.
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Still, more traditional Republican candidates are jostling for position in hopes of overcoming Trump or Texas Sen. Lindsey Graham to campaign across the state for him.
