For Republican candidates, rural and urban voters’ preferences were almost identical.
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“No decision has been made”, spokeswoman Sam Smith said in an email to Reuters. Separately, CBS reported the governor could take as long as 24 hours before deciding, citing sources.
Following Donald Trump’s New Hampshire primary rout, arch-conservative rival Ted Cruz launched a sharp offensive today against the billionaire frontrunner, heralding a brutal battle for the next Republican contest in SC.
A SC voter focus group convened by Bloomberg Politics voiced nearly unanimous support for Texas Sen.
No candidate who came out of Iowa with a boost got much of anywhere in New Hampshire.
On the Republican side, Donald Trump won 33.5 percent of the vote in metropolitan counties, but the New York City real estate developer saw his take of the vote drop to 31.4 percent in rural New Hampshire. He stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Greens in Oxford at last year’s general election and has also represented them on the local council.
For Marco Rubio, Tuesday night was supposed to be phase two of a daring strategy that would shoot him into the lead in the Republican primary for President of the United States.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Republican businessman Donald Trump won overwhelmingly, defeating candidates supported by the establishment.
The presidential primary roadshow now rolls on to Nevada and SC, where both the Republican and Democratic parties will hold their primaries before the end of the month.
Trump, Kasich, and Bush beat Rubio in New Hampshire, with the mogul on top, the OH governor second and his fellow Floridian in fourth.
“Jeb Bush has no foreign policy experience, and I respect his family”, Rubio said.
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She placed second to last in New Hampshire. The older brother also featured in a radio ad earlier this week in SC and in a Super Bowl ad in New Hampshire, which was sponsored by Right to Rise, the Bush Super PAC. Because, in the past, yes there were fewer polls, and some would say that was a good thing, but all of the polls that there were in 2008 showed Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton. Instead, it appears to be just the beginning, with no telling if or when they’ll wake up.
