MANCHESTER, New Hampshire-Bernie Sanders won a commanding victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, and Donald Trump also scored a big win in a triumph of two outsider candidates who have ridden a wave of voter frustration with American politics.
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Tuesday’s outcomes would have been almost unthinkable not long ago.
Sanders’ win was a landslide over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, no matter how you look at the results. The Kasich campaign is gearing up to win the MI primary in March, dominate at home in OH, and swipe delegates from Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia, Tennessee and even MS, a deep South state Mr. Weaver claimed Mr. Kasich could win.
New Hampshire showed voter anger is for real, but it seemed unlikely to give much clarity to the search for a strong establishment alternative to Trump. It will bring together young people who have never participated in the political process. The contributions came mostly in small-dollar amounts, his campaign said, illustrating the resources he will have to fight Mrs Clinton to the bitter end.
Texas senator Ted Cruz, the conservative firebrand and victor in the lead-off Iowa caucuses, returned to the centre of the fracas after largely sitting out New Hampshire.
After a bruising New Hampshire primary that saw wide victory margins, both parties head to SC and Nevada conflicted about their presidential front-runners and facing nominating contests that could stretch for months.
Meanwhile, John Kasich’s stronger than expected second place finish, along with Marco Rubio’s anemic placing in fifth, throws the Republican establishment into disarray once more. “Maybe he can, but I don’t know”, Bush said. The Democrats are determined to damage Rubio, whom they see as the Republicans’ most formidable candidate, and Christie happily obliged.
In that regard, Christie eagerly collaborated with the Democratic Party press. He pointed to his largely positive approach, saying, “Light overcame the darkness”.
“We have sent the message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from ME to California”, Sanders said following hi win. But she cast herself as more prepared to make good on her pledges. Now she’s trying to stop the first Jewish-American from being elected president. He will have to work day and night to secure not just SC, but Florida, Minnesota, Nevada and most of the so-called “SEC” primary states – the ones at play on Super Tuesday. But if he fails to reach the top three, he will again face the same questions about his candidacy as he did going into New Hampshire.
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Bernie Sanders gestures during a rally at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, New Hampshire, February 8, 2016. Democrats have already grumbled about putting New Hampshire at the front of the calendar, and I expect conservative Republicans to begin organizing against it after another cycle in which mainstream conservative candidates were walloped there.
