Cruz on Tuesday suggested he was focused on New Hampshire but also on SC, which votes 11 days later. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; Rick Santorum, a former USA senator from Pennsylvania; and Ted Cruz will put more emphasis down South. After all, more than 60 percent of South Carolina’s Republican vote is regarded as evangelical.
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Adam Sharp, Twitter’s head of news, government and elections, said the results don’t replace traditional polling “any more than satellite and radar will replace the thermometer”.
The Associated Press has declared Hillary Clinton the victor of the Democratic caucuses in Iowa, overcoming a feared but unanticipated strong showing by Sen.
“We will to on to get the Republican nomination and we will to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up there, Iowa, we love you”.
With Iowa accounting for only 1 per cent of the delegates at stake in the Democratic nominating race, Ms Clinton is already far ahead of Mr Sanders in the delegate count that matters most, given her support from several hundred superdelegates who count toward the nomination.
And while Iowa was first, and therefore no one could really claim momentum from previous results, candidates in New Hampshire can. Iowa has more older voters – roughly one-fourth are over 65, compared with about 15 percent in New Hampshire.
The results of the Iowa caucuses have shown just how close this year’s presidential race is for both parties.
“I hear they all have these great ground games, they’ve got people pouring in on buses and trucks”, Mr Trump said at a campaign rally.
Two straight defeats would likely have left Clinton struggling to regain her footing. According to the AP, Clinton’s advantage is in her number of “superdelegates” – the party officials who can switch their support to the candidate of their choice.
Before the final total was announced, IDP Chairman Andy McGuire released a statement calling the election “historically close”.
He noted that “the people of Iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment, the economic establishment, and oh by the way, to the media establishment”.
Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats descended on the tiny New England state of New Hampshire, which votes next Tuesday. Cruz has $18 million in the bank, almost double Rubio’s treasury, and his hard-right ideological profile well matches the Southern states where the post-New Hampshire primary trail leads.
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Clinton’s victory in Iowa means she will collect 23 delegates and Sanders will win 21.
