Trump has been leading the Republican polls in New Hampshire, which has historically favored more moderate candidates than Iowa.
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Sanders and Clinton appeared at a town hall hosted by CNN Wednesday night, when voters had the first opportunity to see how the Iowa results affected the candidates’ messaging and defensive strategies.
In a press gaggle in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, Cruz said, “You know, my girls are five and seven and I got to tell you, Caroline and Katherine are better behaved than a presidential candidate who responds by insulting everyone everyday when he loses”.
Sanders’ campaign wanted one of the debates to be held in California and another in Brooklyn, New York, and questioned why Clinton, a former New York senator, might be reluctant to debate in her adopted home state.
Who will be there; who won’t: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen.
“Good ideas on paper are important, but you’ve got to be able to translate them into action”, she said. But as much as Sanders doesn’t like the Republican’s agenda, the senator said he would delight in taking him on in November.
In recent polling, Sanders leads Clinton in New Hampshire by almost 20 points.
Trump came in second slightly ahead of Rubio, whose stronger-than-expected finish should help cement his status as the favourite of mainstream Republican voters who worry that Cruz and Trump are too caustic to win the general election.
Sanders, for his part, was hoping to replicate President Barack Obama’s pathway to the presidency by using a victory in Iowa to catapult his passion and ideals of “democratic socialism” deep into the primaries.
With nearly all precincts reporting, Cruz had 28 percent, Trump had 24 percent and Rubio had 23 percent.
“What this does is makes me more determined than ever to try to save our country”, Carson said on Fox News on Tuesday.
“That’s wonderful”, she said when asked by CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper about Sanders’ majority support among young people in Iowa.
Carson, who is conspicuously absent in New Hampshire, said the Monday comment amounted to “dirty tricks”.
“I think in retrospect we should’ve had a better ground game, I would’ve funded a better ground game”, he continued.
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Polls in New Hampshire suggest the primary will not be as close as the nail-biting Democratic caucuses in Iowa. “I think he has to be competitive with or beat the other mainstream establishment candidates”. “I think some people were disappointed that I didn’t go into the debate”.
