New Hampshire also reset the bar for a convincing victory.
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Rep. Gregory Meeks said Thursday that the Democratic presidential candidate has been a long term partner who understands the racial divide. Yet among the hardliners, Trump commanded a majority, 51 percent, more than doubling up Cruz, another immigration hardliner, who came in at 19 percent. “This happened five years ago”. But we expect most affluent people to favor the party of the right. But much of the initial criticism was focused on their style, rather than the substance of their arguments, whether it was Trump’s rudeness and comb-over, or Bernie’s age and eccentricities (including his resemblance to Larry David).
Like Iowa, Nevada votes through a caucus system. Yet his path grew far trickier after a fifth-place New Hampshire letdown, which terminated talk of Republican leaders quickly uniting behind him as the strongest alternative to “outsiders” Trump and Cruz. “Clinton’s record”, Coates told Democracy Now. And among declared Republicans, Trump did not do almost as well. But politicians and Wall Street would be foolish to ignore New Hampshire’s shock waves.
“I have no doubt that if (the Democratic nominee) is Hillary Clinton, if it’s a Jeb-Hillary race, he will win”. Playing to a draw in Iowa and winning decisively in New Hampshire fixes that problem.
Candidates in both parties will be contending with a new media reality in the Silver State, where the largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has just been bought by billionaire Sheldon Adelson. He largely bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s White House campaign four years ago.
For Hillary to win, she’s going to have to relentlessly feed that narrative.
In every presidential cycle from 1980 until 2012, the victor of the GOP primary in SC stormed on to dominate later Southern primaries and wrap up the nomination.
“I don’t think anyone is going to wrap this up in SC or Nevada”, he said. But if she falters in those states, sirens will begin to blare within the Democratic party. Trump leads in the polls there by more than his national margin. And, on the Republican side, Trump’s rivals said that they, too, didn’t like Musliims entering the country, and would out-do The Donald in “carpet-bombing’ (as Ted Cruz put it) ISIS”. Cruz has been running a strong second in state polls, and if Iowa and New Hampshire are any indication, he will exceed his poll numbers. “You can’t compare him to other people”.
“The idea is, if you can win SC, you can win nationally”. The military footprint in SC is pretty big, not so much in New Hampshire, and people at home are anxious.
Let’s be clear: the fault for Rubio’s setback lies mostly with Rubio.
Bush and his allies reportedly spent $36 million just in New Hampshire, but Beightol defended the investment.
But Bush also intends to run what Sen. Lindsey Graham, who dropped his own presidential bid in December.
As the campaigns swing south, the mainstream lane to the nomination is still congested.
Even more than Bush, Rubio is grappling with how to confront multiple foes. The second President Bush also won here, in 2000 and 2004.
Gingrich’s victory here reflected the state’s drift in recent years away from conventional Republican candidates and toward a more populist, and at times, purer brand of conservatism. “Particularly if you don’t do well in New Hampshire, you need to do well in SC”. Campaign reporters have generally interpreted this reflex as a pure campaign tactic, using a president popular with the party base as a shield against Sanders’s populist thrusts. If Trump offered extremism, Kasich – whose views are actually quite conservative – campaigned on moderation. The two-step didn’t work, and its canned quality was exposed, witheringly, by Chris Christie in the final pre-primary debate. It is hard to think of a more antiquated and stereotype-driven remark than that.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders get back in the debate ring Thursday night with an increasingly bitter family score to settle.
It was in SC in 2008 that Barack Obama absconded with the black vote that Hillary Clinton (and her husband, Bill) had thought they had under contract.
Clinton supports Obama on issues such as guns.
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When Sanders uttered those words, he placed himself squarely in one of American Jewry’s oldest and proudest traditions – namely, disproportionately supporting left-wing causes. But it has yet to be truly tested, and Sanders has 17 days to surmount it. The long and languorous phase of 2016, when candidates could spend weeks concentrating on a single state, is now in the rearview mirror.
