Without a candidate with the courage and leadership to take on Trump in SC and Nevada, there might not be a non-Trump left standing.
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Kasich seemed to bask in his strong showing in New Hampshire, striking an upbeat tone and noting that he has attracted much more interest in his bid. The poor result was a reflection, he said, of a high-profile stumble in Saturday night’s debate that pushed undecided voters toward other candidates. Sanders carried more than 80% of voters ages 18 to 29, far better than Obama fared eight years earlier. Donald Trump is the blue line at the top.
For Trump, the brash real estate magnate and television personality who has never held public office, the win was an important rebound after his loss to Texas Senator Ted Cruz in last week’s Iowa caucuses, the first nominating contest. You know, you look at these politicians they always talk about the six states – you’ve got to win this one, that one. But Sanders did even better with rural Democrats, picking up an additional 7 percentage points of support outside large cities.
This is what makes Clinton so powerful in the Democratic race – even while she and Sanders battle it out among rank-and-file voters, she has a massive lead among superdelegates.
In the Republican primary, candidate performance was almost identical in rural and urban areas. Bernie Sanders (I) and businessman Donald Trump, have a mixed record of picking the eventual presidential nominees.
Despite his popularity among many Republican leaders, he will ultimately need to start winning primary contests to remain competitive – especially as Trump and Cruz perform well.
Kasich has stood out in the 2016 presidential field for a message that is rooted in the “compassionate conservative” ethos, which helped propel George W. Bush to the White House. The Ohio governor conducted over 100 town hall meetings in the state and maybe that paid off in rural communities. “It’s just that there’s so many people that when you take the votes and don’t have them together, then he gets that kind of a showing”. Kasich’s 16 percent New Hampshire finish wouldn’t be good enough to nab him a single delegate in any of those states. Marco Rubio of Florida got an estimated 11 percent of the 65-and-older Republican vote in New Hampshire and 8 percent among voters 45 to 64. Sen. Just as a man should just vote for a man president?
Less than 24 hours after the New Hampshire primary, presidential candidates are now pushing for votes in the south. The results pushed Trump back into his previous front-runner status, and confirmed that outsider candidates are “seizing on the fury of grass-roots voters to rock the elites who control American politics”, CNN reported. Metropolitan counties have a city of at least 50,000 residents, or they are adjacent to a metropolitan county and have strong economic ties it. Everything else is nonmetropolitan.
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Christie: Iowa and New Hampshire did not agree on which mainstream Republicans to advance, but they did agree that Chris Christie isn’t one of them.
