Republican Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders are focusing their presidential election efforts on the next state battle for votes after decisive wins in New Hampshire.
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After losing the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz last week, Trump fairly obliterated the Republican field in New Hampshire on Tuesday, winning 35 percent of the vote.
Both Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders – the first Jew to win a presidential primary – worked to undercut each other among African-Americans and Hispanics with less than two weeks until the Democratic contests in Nevada and SC.
On the Democratic side, Sanders beat out Hillary Clinton by over 55,000 votes, with 60.4 percent to Clinton’s 38 percent.
Get ready for major Republican officials and large donors to begin a campaign to unite behind an alternative to presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. But Cruz sees it as a necessity. Mrs Clinton’s campaign deployed SC state congressman Todd Rutherford to vouch for her support for minorities.
Cruz told the Mike Gallagher radio show today that “South Carolina is going to play a key role in choosing whether the Republican nominee is a proven conservative or simply a candidate who talks the talk on the trail but hasn’t walked the walk”.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has cancelled an event in SC on the heels of his disappointing finish in the New Hampshire GOP primary.
The Ohio governor – and former congressman – on Wednesday defended his foreign policy experience at an appearance in SC, citing his long tenure on the House Armed Services Committee.
After coming in first in the Iowa caucuses, Cruz finished a distant third behind Trump on Tuesday night in New Hampshire, though he joked he deserves the same credit Marco Rubio got a week earlier for beating expectations in Iowa.
Unlike in New Hampshire, Clinton is leading in the polls – up by 34 percentage points according to one poll. He said Trump is not politically correct which only adds to his support. The senator ate a stack of blueberry pancakes – soft food, he said, because he cracked a molar the night before on a flight back to Washington, D.C. The center-right candidate who emerges as the candidate of that movement could continue right up until the balloting for the nomination at the Republican National Convention.
He again took responsibility for a poor debate performance last week in New Hampshire and promised to be more aggressive going forward.
This week’s New Hampshire primary was won by Trump with a massive margin, while Governor John Kasich of OH came in second, followed by Cruz and the former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
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Christie had poured much of his campaign’s resources into New Hampshire and had considered a good showing there critical.
