Sanders and Trump are the two candidates who also enjoy the most support from independent voters, according to polls.
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Mr Rubio – after he was mauled in a TV debate on Saturday for regurgitating scripted lines – is hoping to build on his strong third-place finish in Iowa.
“The coronation of Marco Rubio appears to be in a stall”, David Kochel, the Bush campaign’s chief strategist, told Business Insider.
Networks among the exit-poll consortium just released preliminary data from daylong interviews with New Hampshire primary voters, who headed to the polls to cast their ballots on Tuesday.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) in New Hampshire.
Energized by the last Republican presidential debate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dashed across New Hampshire Tuesday hoping to reshape the GOP race.
“I’m disappointed with tonight”, Rubio said as he took the stage in a ballroom at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. There were political tourists present, including one man who was a Christie supporter and told MSNBC he was just there to see the look on Rubio’s face.
Trump – who said at the debate that he “would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding” – criticized Cruz for not giving a more aggressive answer.
“Wow, wow, wow, wow”, Trump declared, savoring his victory at a campaign rally before promising swift action as president on the economy, trade, health care, drug abuse and more.
“You know what she said?” But a big loss to Sanders, an underdog candidate who describes himself as a democratic socialist, would be embarrassing for Clinton. The senator finished second to Clinton in the leadoff Iowa caucuses by the narrowest of margins.
After spending $2800 per vote in Iowa, Jeb Bush and his super PAC, Right to Rise, have continued the spree by paying about $1200 per vote in New Hampshire. Marco Rubio and former Sunshine State Gov. Jeb Bush working hard to secure that second place vote – and they fell short.
The New Hampshire primary gives momentum to the winners heading into the next contests in SC and Nevada as candidates race to pick up delegates for their parties’ nominating conventions.
Politico reports the Clinton campaign is planning a shake-up after Tuesday’s expected defeat.
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Dante Scala, an analyst on local politics at the University of New Hampshire, said that if Rubio did not do well in Tuesday’s primary, “it isn’t fatal necessarily but it makes the road to the nomination longer and riskier”.
