Trump hammered away at bad trade deals and special interests buying influence in Washington, DC, while Sanders told voters that he would take on Wall Street’s rigged system and tax millionaires to pay for jobs programs, healthcare, and infrastructure investments.
Advertisement
New Hampshire Voters: Pundits are quick to coalesce around the conventional wisdom, and after last week’s vote in Iowa, many boldly proclaimed Republicans were down to a three-man race.
The Democratic establishment will be only somewhat less horrified by New Hampshire’s “red wedding” of an election night. As for himself, Trump said “brilliant”. Sanders also won 78 percent of first-time voters. Among Republican primary voters, almost half said they’re dissatisfied and 4 in 10 they’re angry. According to those exit polls, Republicans said the economy, government and terrorism were their top issues of concern.
Independent voters, who made up about 40% of the Republican voter pool, favored Mr. Trump, but Ohio Gov. John Kasich was drawing the second-largest share of that group.
“When the media kept saying, ‘well, how are you going to do this? It’s fantastic. It is a lot of young people”, Estabrook said, pointing to a queue of new and undeclared voters snaking all the way down a hallway at Bedford High School, waiting as long as an hour to register. “I have an insurance policy”. He held more than 100 town halls and focused on a message of governance and compromise.
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump waves has he arrives for a campaign rally Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio looked to be gaining momentum and was picking up endorsement after endorsement earlier this week.
“I’m disappointed by tonight”, Rubio said. Our disappointment is not on you. So listen to this: “That will never happen again”. Ted Cruz, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. “It’s on me”, he told supporters.
Christie, though was finishing with less than 10 percent of the vote and said he’d head back to New Jersey to reconsider the race.
Mr. Sanders’s liberal cri de coeur overpowered the Clinton campaign’s argument that Mrs. Clinton, a former first lady, secretary of state and senator, was the more experienced candidate.
“History shows the candidate from the neighboring state does the best in New Hampshire”, she said. But a Reuters/Ipsos poll done Feb 2-5 showed Clinton and Sanders now in a dead heat.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s clear the Democratic primary will now last much longer than most political observers ever anticipated.
This is the same state where she pulled off a stunning victory in her first run for president, in 2008, and where her husband, former President Bill Clinton, finished in second place in 1992, helping to propel him to the nomination and earning him the nickname the Comeback Kid.
“Now we take this campaign to the entire country”.
His campaign is set to hit the television airwaves in four states – Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Oklahoma – that vote in March. “We’re going to fight for real solutions, and make a real difference in people’s lives”.
Or for the thousands of people tonight in New Hampshire tonight who will have voted for us.
Trump, stung by his second-place showing in Iowa last week, had been determined to make New Hampshire his proving ground for a campaign that has defied convention wisdom from the start. Clinton is seen as having an edge, since a sizable bloc of Hispanics and African-Americans, thought to be loyal to her, will vote.
A source within the Sanders campaign told CNN’s Mark Preston that his victory meant that the Vermont senator’s operation would transition into a national effort targeting multiple states beyond the next two contests in SC and Nevada.
Clinton pressed the message that she’s the Democrat best able to address specific problems in her concession speech Tuesday night.
Advertisement
“I think she’s a little too paid-for, like most politicians, a little too involved with personal interests, ” said John Halsted, 21, a hairdresser from Sunapee, New Hampshire.
