“New Hampshire is must win for Trump”, said Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak. This pack of four – Rubio, Cruz, Kasich and Bush – has been jockeying for second place in the state for some time. Ted Cruz follows with 13 percent, John Kasich at 11 percent and Jeb Bush at 10 percent.
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Rubio, who came in a close third to Trump and Cruz in Iowa, was on the verge of slamming the door shut on this contest until Christie embarrassed him in Saturday’s debate as a repeater of rote talking points.
Clinton pulled off a victory over Barack Obama in New Hampshire in 2008 – after the future president upended the race by defeating her in Iowa.
On paper, Trump and Sanders are in good shape but as we saw in last week’s Iowa caucuses – with Cruz taking the top spot among the GOP and Sanders coming within a few voters of front runner Clinton – we really won’t know what will happen until after the votes are tallied.
“Tomorrow”, Trump said, “you have to get out and you have to vote no matter what”.
White House hopefuls Donald Trump and Jeb Bush opened political hostilities on Monday as Republican and Democratic candidates stormed across New Hampshire in a final flurry of events before the state’s crucial first-in-the-nation primary.
Trump has built his campaign in part around his self-declared reputation as a “winner”, and a loss in New Hampshire would intensify doubts that he can translate opinion poll support into votes.
Being the New Hampshire runner-up could be viewed as a win for the other candidates.
Donald Trump liked it when a woman yelled out at his rally Monday night that Sen.
Bush, who is relying on a strong showing on Tuesday to revive his floundering campaign, shot back in a tweet, telling Trump: “You aren’t just a loser, you are a liar and a whiner”. “She said he’s a ‘p–,'” Trump said.
Among Democrats the odds don’t reflect the polling: Sanders is at 80:1 and Clinton at 16:1. “If he loses New Hampshire after leading by 35 points and having that evaporate in eight days, that will be a disaster, he won’t be the nominee and I think there will be pressure on him to drop out”.
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Fresh off his talked-about debate peformance on Saturday night, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie says that despite the outcome of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, he will stay in the race and continue campaigning in SC. A CNN/UNH/WMUR poll also placed Sanders far ahead with 58 percent, compared to Clinton’s 35 percent, along with a Monmouth University poll who had Sanders ahead with 52 percent and Clinton at 42 percent.
