On Tuesday, Sanders beat Clinton in almost every demographic area except for senior citizens and families earning over $200,000.
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“Well, unfortunately, it created a distraction that didn’t allow us at the end of the campaign there to close with our message because everybody wanted to talk about the fact that I said the same thing a couple times”, Rubio said.
For Trump, the brash real estate billionaire and television personality who has never held public office, the win was an important rebound after his loss to Texas Sen.
Rubio would finish third in Iowa – and would do well enough to surprise numerous pundits who’d dismissed him as an also-ran behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
Fresh off his strong second-place finish in New Hampshire, Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday said he has no plans to win in SC, though he expects to do well there.
Meeks said 90 percent of the 20-member board of the CBC’s PAC voted to endorse Clinton. But Sanders’ popularity in New Hampshire among millennials and, more surprisingly, women has jolted the Clinton machine.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a native son of Pittsburgh, poured all of his resources into New Hampshire and emerged with a life-sustaining second place. “Maybe greater than ever before”. It seems that a lot of the voters are very engaged in this election, and we see a lot of younger voters who voted yesterday.
The latest poll numbers in SC were tabulated before Mr Sanders won New Hampshire, and he is sure to narrow the gap.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen.
The next stop on the presidential primary list: SC and Nevada.
After slogging through Iowa and New Hampshire for months, the Republican campaign is about to pick up the pace and some warmth, hoping to head south for a victor. He added he had conversations with many undecided voters in recent days who liked Rubio but changed their support to other candidates after the debate.
Trump and Cruz both say they want to dismantle President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, but Trump has been hammered by conservative rivals for expressing support years ago for universal health care. Clinton acknowledged the voting bloc in her upbeat sounding concession speech.
Clinton said she recognized the American electorate’s fury with establishment politics. “But they’re also hungry, they’re hungry for solutions”, she said after congratulating Sanders on his win.
Over half a million voters cast ballots on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in the New Hampshire primary, a large turnout across the small Northeastern state.
While Sanders’ victory means he’s assured of a majority of New Hampshire’s pledged delegates, Clinton remains ahead in the overall delegate count due to support from superdelegates-the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice at the convention. Sanders won 60% of the Democratic vote. At this point though, he still has as good a chance as Bush and Rubio of turning this into three-person race against Cruz and Trump. But it won’t be much of a lead.
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However, with more than 80 percent of New Hampshire precincts reporting, Trump received 35.3 percent of the overall vote, around 100,406 total, and 30-40 percent of the vote among many demographic groups.
