Christie announced Wednesday he was ending his White House bid, following a dismal performance Tuesday in New Hampshire.
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Both men were convincing winners. New Hampshire has three metropolitan counties and seven nonmetropolitan counties. New Hampshire Republicans picked a demagogue. Rubio, who had hoped to capitalize on a stronger-than-expected third-place finish in Iowa, cited a poor debate showing in New Hampshire and the “negative” media coverage that followed it.
In Nevada, it is Hispanic voters who can make the difference.
Republicans are moving to the right and Democrats to the left.
Sanders coasted to victory in Tuesday’s primary on a wave of voter anger at traditional US politicians. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off in a Democratic presidential debate on March 6 in Flint. The distance between the two parties is getting wider. Notably however, Sanders won every demographic in New Hampshire except for voters 65 and older.
Rubio entered the New Hampshire with strong momentum and was once widely accepted as a potential alternative to Trump by party establishment after a surprisingly third-place in the Iowa caucuses.
Fresh off of Donald Trump’s New Hampshire primary rout, arch-conservative rival Ted Cruz launched a sharp offensive Wednesday against the billionaire frontrunner, heralding a brutal battle for the next Republican contest in SC. That’s the same path he’s been on all along: survive the early events, and appeal to the widest range of groups, eventually consolidating all of the anti-Trump and-or anti-Cruz vote.
Kasich, a more moderate Republican, poured almost all of his campaign resources into the state. The implications of this result for the next month of the Republican primary can not be understated.
We began with more than 20 Republican candidates. Some of it is conservatives who hate Obama’s big government liberalism, epitomized by Obamacare. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush will be a great commander-in-chief for our military”, the former president says in the radio spot.
MoveOn.Org Political Action and a coalition of Sanders fans launched separate petitions calling on superdelegates, the 712 elected officials and party leaders who are free to support the candidate they wish, to back the will of primary voters and caucusgoers at the Democratic Party’s national nominating convention in July.
Many working-class white voters feel embittered toward the whole political establishment.
The four candidates for the Republican presidential nomination vying to unseat Donald Trump must sharply step up their attacks on the front-runner instead of themselves or else “the chances of nominating a mainstream Republican may dissipate”, GOP consultant Karl Rove said.
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Bernie Sanders gestures during a rally at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, New Hampshire, February 8, 2016.
