While Clinton remains the favourite in the national race, the win by the Vermont senator could be a springboard into a competitive, drawn-out campaign.
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“Secretary Clinton has been involved in SC for the last 40 years”, Rutherford said. “But I’m ok at handling threats”.
Bernie Sanders has not only, as The Washington Post puts it, “embarrassed” Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, but he has become the first Jew to win a presidential primary. Democrats move on to Nevada, where Sanders will leave his New England neighborhood and try to prove his mettle with a more diverse and urban electorate.
Clinton tried to show she’d heard the message.
“People have every right to be angry”, she said, as she conceded to Sanders.
He also touted his plan for tuition-free education at public colleges and universities, and said this and other ambitious social programs will be financed by “a tax on Wall Street speculation”. They’re hungry for solutions. “But I also hope that we all remember, and this is a message not just to our opponents, but to those who support me as well, that we will need to come together in a few months and unite this party and this nation because the right-wing Republicans we oppose must not be allowed to gain the presidency”.
John Kasich accomplished his goal of being “a story” of the New Hampshire primary, but the challenge is just beginning.
New Hampshire destroyed any momentum Rubio had coming out of Iowa and for now, at least, locks Rubio in a messy muddle in his party’s establishment wing. Those voters went to Kasich, who staked his campaign on New Hampshire, and declared his second-place showing an affirmation of his largely positive campaign.
“Light overcame the darkness”, he said.
A subdued Christie was heading back to New Jersey to “take a deep breath” and review whether to keep at it, he told supporters.
George W. Bush has been enlisted to campaign for his brother in SC, where Jeb Bush is making eight campaign stops in the state over the next three days following a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire. The Clinton campaign dismissed the potential results in the state during the runup to the primary, saying that Sanders was from a neighboring state.
The challenge for Kasich – and for that matter, Rubio and Bush – is whether they can make it past March 1 without winning a single state and still be viewed as viable candidates for the nomination.
Trump has tapped into Republicans’ anger with Washington, D.C., and, according to exit polls, he was on to something: An overwhelming 9 of 10 GOP voters said they were either dissatisfied or angry. This gives Sanders a major advertising weaponry for Super Tuesday next month.
Old-guard feminists such as Gloria Steinem, who is uncompromising in her support of Clinton, appear to deeply resent this reality.
– The Muslim travel ban: A clear majority of Republican voters told pollsters they supported his proposal to halt Muslim travel to the U.S. Trump had a 30 per cent lead among these voters. It has been described as Hillary Clinton’s firewall against the Sanders conflagration. Aging feminists like Steinem and Albright very understandably want to see a woman in the white house before they die.
From New Hampshire the parties’ paths to the nomination diverge. The money was pouring in online. I’m the most conservative capable governor in the field here in SC. Cruz has been running a strong second in state polls, and if Iowa and New Hampshire are any indication, he will exceed his poll numbers.
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Here’s the latest on the 2016 presidential race as Republican and Democratic candidates head from New Hampshire to SC and beyond.
