Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts at his 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire February 9, 2016.
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The White House hopefuls are preparing for a bruising primary battle in SC, a day after the New Hampshire contest. The worst-case scenario is that Carson’s still holding on doggedly to his 8-9 percent, majority likely evangelicals, and that fighting on for several more weeks will make Cruz’s task of catching Trump that much harder. Maybe this is supposed to look like “we’re in it for the long haul” resolve, but there are a lot more angles from which it looks like “we have no real plan for victory other than staying in and hoping the rest of the field collapses, too”.
However, Christie failed to win over Granite State voters, winning only about 7 per cent of votes on Tuesday.
“I’m not going to sit down and be quiet, and neither are you”, she told her supporters.
The primary in SC is not until Saturday, Feb. 20, and yes, anything can happen in that amount of time.
Mr Trump won 35% of votes, with Ohio Governor John Kasich a distant second on 16%. Kasich, a more moderate Republican, poured almost all of his campaign resources into the state.
Clinton’s campaign has expressed confidence publicly, at least that she would weather tough races in Iowa and New Hampshire and reassert her dominance as the contest turned to Southern and Southwestern states.
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump rode his anti-establishment message to an easy win in the New Hampshire primary.
Clinton is seen as enjoying strong support among black voters and Sanders, realizing the need to boost his standing with African Americans, met Wednesday with prominent civil rights activist Al Sharpton in NY.
The comments came after a disappointing 5th-place finish in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders bested Clinton by about 22.5 points, an even larger margin than what polling figures anticipated.
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Mr Kasich is vying with Senator Marco Rubio and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to be the party establishment’s anointed one. “And Senator Sanders coming here this morning further makes it clear that we will not be ignored”, he said. Christie referred to Rubio as the “boy in the bubble” and called him a “political lightweight” who would be overwhelmed in the Oval Office. Sanders also had a strong performance on social media during the Iowa caucuses, where he lost narrowly to Clinton, the former secretary of state.
