It was a surprise to both parties, while many believed voters would stick to their roots embracing more experienced candidates like Clinton or one of the Republican lawmakers.
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Mr Christie had poured much of his campaign’s resources into New Hampshire and had considered a good showing there critical.
Only a few delegate votes are at stake but the importance of winning early can never be underrated.
Trump touched on his slogan “Making America Great Again”.
“What began last week in Iowa, what voters here in New Hampshire confirmed tonight, is nothing short of the beginning of a political revolution”, Sanders said.
He serves as an independent in the Senate.
Exit polls showed Trump drew support from voters looking for an outsider and from those who made up their minds a while ago.
Mr Sanders met one of American’s most prominent civil rights activists, Al Sharpton, just hours after New Hampshire. “People have every right to be angry”, she said. But Christie largely spent the majority of his presidential run among the lower ranks of candidates, concerned more with qualifying for the main debate stages than commanding them.
It’s a tough blow for a candidate whose campaign had trouble from the start about raising money and building support in a crowded field dominated by Trump.
In Nevada, it is Hispanic voters who can make the difference.
Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, won second place in New Hampshire, followed by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Even though their totals were close, Bush had been seen as struggling in recent months and Rubio had been surging in the week between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
Chris Christie has cancelled an event in SC on the heels of his disappointing finish in the New Hampshire GOP primary. Trump shot up from 38 percent to 44 percent in a matter of days.
But the influential clergyman said he had not yet decided whether he would back the self-described democratic socialist or Mrs Clinton. A loss there could spell doom for Mrs Clinton’s campaign. Current and former members of the state’s Legislative Black Caucus have lined up to endorse her. The mothers of two black men killed by white police officers in separate incidents, Eric Garner and Dontre Hamilton, plan to campaign for her in the Palmetto State. [My family and I] will make a decision on our next step forward based on the results that come in here in New Hampshire.
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The consolation the losers in New Hampshire can take is from history.
