Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders rode a wave of voter frustration with American politics to commanding victories in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, adding crucial credibility to their upstart candidacies.
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“I think they’re all really potential threats”, Mr Trump said of his rivals on Wednesday on MSNBC. Bush has the highest unfavorability rating among the Republican candidates. Ted Cruz, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen.
Trump said he “never realized” the need to encourage supporters to actually take part in the caucuses. “And that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their superPACs”. But Trump did roughly the same among people who feel betrayed by Republican politicians and those who don’t.
Both results shocked the party establishments, virtually guaranteeing bitter and drawn-out races for the Democratic and Republican nominations. Even if neither candidate ultimately becomes his party’s nominee, whoever wins that nomination will have to reckon with the voter frustration they’ve tapped into.
“Here’s what we’re going to do”, Hillary Clinton said during her concession speech in Hooksett, N.H.
The one-time Catholic altar boy learned early on that he can control a group of people with his energy and misdirection, as he confesses doing in “Every Other Monday”, a book by Kasich that sheds light on why he thinks his thoughts.
PILING ON: Lower-finishing GOP candidates can be expected to gang up on the New Hampshire success stories.
New Hampshire destroyed any momentum Rubio had coming out of Iowa and for now, at least, locks Rubio in a messy muddle in his party’s establishment wing. Their votes count the same as delegates won through the primary.
Clinton often blames such perceptions on what she sees as well-funded Republican efforts to impugn her character – rhetoric that harkens back to her 1990s assertion that a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” was trying to take down her husband, President Bill Clinton. To qualify for the debates, candidates had to place among the top five finishers in New Hampshire, the top three in Iowa and top give in an average of national and SC polls. But he stumbled in Saturday’s debate under intense pressure from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; the governor relentlessly cast the young senator as too inexperienced and too reliant on memorized talking points to be president.
Despite the success of his critique of Rubio, Christie did not reap any political benefit for himself. He said he was returning home to “take a deep breath” before making a decision about his political future. Neither of the New Hampshire winners are immune to reversals of fortune, however. The Associated Press, quoting sources, reported the New Jersey governor is expected to end his bid as well. They also have more money left than he does, according AP reports that he “has far less cash than any of his closest competitors”.
Trump also spoke about his desire to build a wall on the Mexican U.S. border, build up the American army and get rid of Obamacare and Common Core in his victory speech.
Fresh off of his New Hampshire Primary win, Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on the ABC talk show “The View” for their opening panel discussion of issues. Hillary Clinton won the majority of those over 65.
That year, the youngest female primary voters in New Hampshire – those under age 30 – were slightly more likely to support Obama than Clinton, 45 percent to 37 percent, while this year 79 percent of them voted for Sanders. She was confident that his showing in New Hampshire would mobilize support nationally.
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Clinton and two of her key supporters – the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem, the voice of America’s feminist movement in the 60s and 70s – have got their message to women very, very wrong.
