“I’m shocked that he won”, said Trump. But exactly how Tuesday’s results will change the 2016 presidential race may not be clear for days or even weeks.
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The tables have turned once more however after the businessman turned politician stormed the Republican primary at New Hampshire on February 9th with a landslide victory. And though New England is hardly favorable territory for the outspokenly conservative Cruz, the Iowa victor showed he remains someone to be reckoned with by finishing third.
Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s weak finish after some had predicted a bounce from his Iowa showing throws a new wrench into the fight for Texas GOP donors.
Here’s why: New Hampshire has 24 Democratic delegates distributed based on the number of votes each candidate receives.
Sanders is within 7 points of Clinton, according to a new Morning Consult survey released Friday.
New Hampshire is just one state, but the exit poll numbers coming out of it do not lend themselves to an obvious anti-Trump strategy.
Although we’re not sure what kind of president Christie would be, we’ll certainly miss him at the debates.
AD NAUSEAM: The presidential hopefuls and their supporters already are planning to spend $35 million in SC and $7 million in Nevada on TV and radio commercials, amounts that will rise significantly as voting approaches.
Jeb Bush: His campaign has rebounded after getting into the mix in New Hampshire.
This wasn’t a surprise, but Tuesday illustrated just how powerful the Vermont senator’s appeal with young people is what it could mean for his campaign going forward.
Kasich’s senior adviser, Tom Rath, said in addition to voters responding to his candidate’s message, they could also tell that Kasich truly enjoyed the primary process.
Clinton’s honesty is more of a question in New Hampshire than it was in Iowa, where 10 percent voted in her favor, the Washington Examiner notes.
The runaway victory by Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist advocating nothing less than “political revolution”, spelled a deflating if expected defeat for Hillary Clinton, who put a courageous face on the loss and admitted she had some work to do as the campaign moves south. If New Hampshire is any indication, she’ll certainly need to.
Trump won big on Tuesday night. His anti-Wall Street populism has translated into huge crowds, and now, significant support at the polls. When have Democratic news outlets been so anxious to hear what Christie had to say?
“It’s not whether you get knocked down that matter, it’s whether you get back up”, Clinton said.
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The public embrace of a possible brokered convention marks a sharp shift in rhetoric from Rubio’s top adviser that could be created to raise alarm bells among Republican officials.
