Less than 24 hours after the Iowa caucuses, the candidates and national media headed to New Hampshire and the snow moved in.
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Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz has celebrated his win over Donald Trump in the Republican caucuses in Iowa.
Relishing his victory in the first Republican nominating contest of the United States presidential election, Senator Ted Cruz called his defeat of Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses a tribute to “conservative grass roots”.
The New York billionaire and former TV reality star generated much enthusiasm for his anti-establishment message, but in the end he was out muscled by Mr Cruz’s more traditional ground game and saw some late-deciding voters side with US Senator Marco Rubio.
“Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across Iowa and across this great nation”, said Cruz, who built a coalition between evangelical and Tea Party voters, at a victory party in Des Moines. He has both establishment and outsider credentials.
The Iowa caucuses also played their traditional winnowing role in the presidential contest.
“After thorough reporting – and analysis – of results, there is no uncertainty and Secretary Clinton has clearly won the most national and state delegates”, Hillary for America’s Iowa State Director Matt Paul said.
With Democrat Clinton prevailing by only four delegates, according to party figures, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, declared the result a “virtual tie”. “Last night, we came back from a 50-point deficit in the polls, and last night we began the political revolution not just in Iowa, not just in New Hampshire but all over this country”.
“There has never been a successful republican leaving Iowa to really make it a successful run here in New Hampshire”, noted Spradling.
“We (Republicans) have one shot in 2016 to beat Hillary Clinton and that shot is Marco Rubio”, Scott said in a video released by the Rubio campaign.
In 2008, an insurgent Senator Barack Obama used a victory in the Iowa Caucuses over Clinton as a springboard to the Democratic nomination and, eventually, the White House. A poll by the University of Massachusetts/Lowell Center For Public Opinion/7 News puts Sanders ahead of Clinton 2 to 1. Cruz won 34 percent of these voters, while Trump got 22 percent and Republican Sen.
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Nevertheless, the Clinton campaign touted their narrow delegate lead early Tuesday as a victory, plain and simple – though it appeared some precincts had stray delegates decided by coin toss. “Sanders’ backyard, as you know, as a political expert of your many years, that New Hampshire votes for neighbors”, she added.
