Several Harvard professors stand firmly by poll predictions for Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary election in New Hampshire: businessman Donald J. Trump will win among the Republicans, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders among the Democrats.
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Foul-mouthed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump called his rival Sen.
Monday in Nashua, New Hampshire, Rubio repeated many of his stock stump-speech lines, including smoe he delivered nearly word-for-word identically a year ago in the same city.
As the New Hampshire primary gets underway Tuesday, many are wondering if the political future of rising Republican star Marco Rubio was irreparably damaged by a robotic response – given four times – at the GOP debate on Saturday.
Later, in front of the Manchester Rotary Club at Fratello’s Italian Grille, Trump said Bush is “not smart enough to win” – and more. “I’m going to say it again”. “Shout it out ’cause I don’t want to say…” “Democrats are beatable, but not by Trump, not by Cruz”, he said.
A WMUR-CNN poll on Monday showed Trump leading in New Hampshire with the support of 31 percent of those planning to vote in the Republican primary.
Rubio had stumbled badly in the last Republican presidential debate, giving a robotic performance in a critical exchange with New Jersey governor Chris Christie just two days before voters took to the polls. Marco Rubio has jeopardized his chance to pull away from a trio of governors and firmly establish himself as the chief rival to Trump and Cruz.
On the Democratic side, Sanders had a strong lead over Clinton, the former secretary of state who narrowly beat him in Iowa.
Mr Sanders told a raucous victory party that his win sent a message “that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors” and their political committees. After his second-place finish in Iowa, he accepted some of the more traditional trappings of presidential campaigns, including smaller town hall meetings with voters.
The enthusiasm behind Trump, a real estate mogul who has never held political office or run in an election, and Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, underscore the public’s anger with the current political system.
The rest of the Republican pack has been fighting it out, aiming for a strong second or even solid third-place showing that could reinvigorate them for SC and Nevada, the next stops on the long road to becoming the party’s nominee.
Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler responded via email, saying: “Let’s not forget who whipped who in Iowa”.
For the Republicans, the New Hampshire primary serves as an opportunity to whittle down the number of candidates vying for the nomination. Ted Cruz, who had bested him in Iowa, but against Jeb Bush.
“I would pay them to keep running that clip because that’s what I believe passionately”, he said on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos.
But he was significantly ahead of the fourth and fifth place candidates in the poll, Ohio Governor John Kasich at 10 per cent and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at 7 per cent.
Meanwhile Trump, who claims he’s worth more than $10billion, told voters earlier on Monday that he doesn’t like wealthy folks.
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His victory in New Hampshire means he is assured of a majority of the state’s pledged delegates.
