He trailed not only Trump (34 percent) but also Kasich (16 percent), Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush, who was once left for dead.
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Not me, Carly Fiorina announced, dropping out of the campaign.
And in New Hampshire, where voters are known to wait until the last minute to decide whom to support, a spate of recent negative publicity may have hurt Clinton. He won because he ran as a committed and passionate liberal candidate at a time when the Democratic Party as a whole is becoming increasingly liberal. The Associated Press, quoting sources, reported the New Jersey governor is expected to end his bid as well. On the Democratic side, fellow nonestablishmentarian Bernie Sanders validated polls that showed him comfortably ahead of Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump won New Hampshire by skillfully capitalizing on conservative anger with the Republican leadership on issues like immigration and trade. That year, the youngest female primary voters in New Hampshire – those under age 30 – were slightly more likely to support Obama than Clinton, 45 percent to 37 percent, while this year 79 percent of them voted for Sanders.
Early preference polls suggest Trump draws support from across the spectrum and Rubio’s campaign has long suggested he will prove his wide appeal in SC. Ted Cruz an uncouth epithet for a coward.
On the blue team, Bernie Sanders is on a roll.
The battle for SC kicked off Wednesday, a day after Donald Trump’s resounding victory in New Hampshire put him back in front of a GOP pack begins to shrink.
Kasich’s efforts to stick with a positive message buoyed his campaign in the Granite State, where he held more than 100 town hall meetings. “It is just going to take a little longer, but we are going to get there”. Others will attempt to compete in every state. “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson will be the lead moderator with Major Garrett, chief White House correspondent at CBS News, and Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal also asking questions to candidates.
Allison Totten, 19, of Rochester was in line to attend Rubio’s campaign party at the Radisson in downtown Manchester. Yet his path grew far trickier after a fifth-place New Hampshire letdown, which terminated talk of Republican leaders quickly uniting behind him as the strongest alternative to “outsiders” Trump and Cruz. GOP officials have already had early discussions about such a July scenario, which could be triggered if no candidate secures a majority of delegates by convention time.
But John Kasich’s second-place showing in New Hampshire’s primary has suddenly jolted his second-tier candidacy. With a minimal SouthCarolina operation compared to his rivals, Kasich must work quickly.
Both Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush were in desperate need of a win, especially Bush, whose campaign was on a death watch after his campaign was unable to gain momentum as he slid in the polls. Voters will want to know whether their nominee knows the difference between ISIS and al Qaeda and that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to assert influence in the Middle East, among other things, he said. “And if the country doesn’t solve its problems, it gets flabby”.
Clinton and Sanders will have their next showdown in a Democratic debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Thursday, while Republican candidates will have their debate in Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday.
But retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson gamely stayed on despite finishing at the bottom of the table while Florida Senator Marco Rubio the new establishment favourite prepared for his second act after the exit of his tormentor Christie.
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“I am looking forward to a week of wall-to-wall coverage on Fox News of the impressive third-place finish”, Cruz said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Mr Sanders received 60 per cent of the votes as against 38 per cent by 68-year-old former secretary of state.
