The state has often been a bellwether for American politics.
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PILING ON: Lower-finishing GOP candidates can be expected to gang up on the New Hampshire success stories.
Only a few delegate votes are at stake but the importance of winning early can never be underrated.
Mr Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul and former reality TV star, has dominated the Republican race and easily won the party primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday on a wave of voter anger at traditional U.S. politicians. Clinton’s own campaign message has looked muddled compared to Sanders’ ringing call for a “political revolution”, and her connections to Wall Street have given the Vermont senator an easy way to link her to the systems his supporters want to overhaul.
Presidential candidates in both parties battled for the crucial backing of blacks and Hispanics on Friday as the race shifted toward states with more minority voters.
He serves as an independent in the Senate.
“You guys got room for one more?” The state supported her husband in 1992, while Bill Clinton was on the path toward the Democratic nomination, and in the general elections of 1996.
In Nevada, it is Hispanic voters who can make the difference.
But his brand as a tough-talking truth teller was overshadowed by the no-holds-barred bombast of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. The RealClearPolitics average of New Hampshire polls had Rubio at 15.6 percent on Saturday and Bush at 9.5 percent.
Jeb Bush is hoping for a stronger showing than the fourth-place finish in Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire, where he campaigned with his popular mother Barbara Bush, the wife of former president George H.W. Bush.
Christie hit Rubio throughout the run-up to New Hampshire, calling him the “boy in the bubble”, after Rubio’s super PAC spent much of January blasting Christie’s record in New Jersey.
In the days before New Hampshire’s primaries, reporters encountered a curious phenomenon: Republicans or moderates who admitted a fondness for the Senate’s only self-proclaimed democratic socialist. He picked up less than 2 percent of the votes in the Republican Iowa caucuses last week, the first in the state-by-state nominating contests for the November 8 presidential election. They tend to favour Mrs Clinton as well. None of this surprised the Sanders campaign.
ENDORSEMENTS: More will pop after New Hampshire.
The consolation the losers in New Hampshire can take is from history. Sanders is going to need to win big.
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Mrs Clinton won in 2008 and lost the nomination to Barack Obama, who then became president.
