Sugar, we’re goin’ down swinging: As you likely know by now, Bernie Sanders walloped Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire yesterday, and Donald Trump did the same to all those other guys. Republicans voting for Trump are looking for an alternative to the Republican leadership in Washington. Ted Cruz in last week’s Iowa caucuses, the first nominating contest. But Trump wasn’t publicly choosing among his opponents.
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Rep. James E. Clyburn, the most prominent South Carolina Democrat, said he may back Clinton but would take time to think on his decision. “But I’m OK at handling threats”. In a primary stunner, Ohio Gov. John Kasich surged from relative obscurity to second place, a feat his poorly funded campaign will struggle to replicate in SC and beyond.
This year, seven Republicans hopefuls already have announced plans to campaign in SC, including more than 40 events ahead of the party’s February 20 primary.
“This campaign is not dead”, Bush said. Republicans will claim that a vote for Clinton is a vote for a third term for Obama – and that is exactly what it looks like to many Democrats. Clinton tried to show she’d heard the message.
“People have every right to be angry”, she said, as she conceded to Sanders. He also writes and comments frequently on US party politics and elections and how they shape and are shaped by America’s changing place in the world. They’re hungry for solutions.
“We decided that we’re going to go home to New Jersey tomorrow and we’re going to take a deep breath”, he said. He scored at least 29% of the vote in each of New Hampshire’s 10 counties.
Democrats move on to Nevada, where Sanders will leave his New England neighborhood and try to prove his mettle with a more diverse and urban electorate. Even some unaligned Democrats believe Sanders could, in fact, have a fighting chance in the state. Bush told CBS News on Wednesday that the field will “whittle down” and he is a “patient person”.
Bush will make a stand in SC, where his father and brother won primaries en route to the White House. Cruz on Wednesday previewed what could be a brawl for that faction in SC, calling the state a “Southern Baptist state” like Texas.
Kasich is trying to make some inroads in SC.
Trump and Sanders – two political outsiders with vastly different ideologies, but who have a common campaign credo of speaking what they say is truth to power – served notice in the Granite State on Tuesday with their resounding victories. A more moderate Republican from a politically important state, Kasich told supporters Tuesday night that his second-place finish could be an indication that “we’re turning the page on a dark part of American politics”.
Cruz, challenging Trump for prominence in the anti-establishment far-right lane, highlighted their “glaring differences” during an appearance in SC.
“We will respond aggressively to his flailing campaign”, he said.
The Bush campaign, entrenched in the state for months, will double its number of S.C. staff and consultants after New Hampshire.
“The Sunday morning before the race you’re going to have a flyer on your church window with something negative about one of these guys – all of them”, said Sellers, who is also a CNN contributor.
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The exit poll results include interviews with 2,222 Democratic primary voters and 2,036 Republican primary voters and have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
