It’s the final debate setting for the New Hampshire survivors before the SC primary February 20.
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Rubio also has reason hope for a strong showing here. Rand Paul, to end their campaigns.
It all started so optimistically on a warm, sunny day in Sandown, N.H., after Chris Christie announced his presidential candidacy in Livingston, telling NJTV that he was “all in” in New Hampshire.
Plus, there are fewer candidates contending as the race moves to the south. Carly Fiorina and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie both dropped out of the race on Wednesday after low numbers in New Hampshire.
His brother handily defeated John McCain in the 2000 SC primary, which allowed him to solidify support and eventually secure the Republican nomination. Then the race widens to more than a dozen states, many in the South, that vote March 1.
The New Hampshire primary has been the making or breaking of presidential candidates in the past, in a state where 44 percent of voters identify as independent, 30 percent Republican and 26 percent Democrat. Granted there’s not many of them. Marco Rubio of Florida.
Rubio will get the chance to make things right for his campaign at the next debate, which takes place tomorrow in Greenville, South Carolina.
The South Carolinian didn’t say which of the GOP’s candidates he was referring to the Politico report suggests, but it was likely directed at Trump and Senate colleague Cruz.
Bush has neither path. All he might do is stand in the way of the other two, leaving the nomination to Trump unless Cruz can stop him. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will battle along with Kasich to be the establishment candidate to face down Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
It was a must win for Trump, after his embarrassing performance in the Hawkeye State called into question his frontrunner status and brand as a victor.
So, hearts predict primaries more so than in a general election.
THE LATEST: This is the first debate since the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. And already, SC – with its reputation for vicious political onslaught – has spurred plenty of mudslinging and personal attacks between the candidates. In both states those groups represent the key element of the Democratic base.
After her trouncing in New Hampshire, Clinton, the country’s top diplomat from 2009 to 2013, conceded to Sanders, even as she pressed her contention that his proposals are unlikely to be enacted in politically fractious Washington.
But the results Tuesday were a hard turn.
But the situations are different.
As a senator from Vermont, Sanders has not had to forge the relationships that would come in handy now with black and Latino voters. Sanders bested Clinton by about 22.5 points, an even larger margin than what polling figures anticipated.
“I ran for president with the message that the government needs to once again work for the people, not the people work for the government”, Christie said in a statement Wednesday evening.
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Talking about his proposal to give Christian refugees from the Middle East special consideration, Bush said yesterday, ‘You would have thought that I was like Donald Trump.
