He suspended his bid in December, and endorsed Bush shortly after.
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His campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, is a long-time SC operative, and his team has been laying down the groundwork ensure a strong showing in the state.
With his children eating at an adjacent table, he soon turned back to presidential politics: “I don’t know about how it will work out”, he said.
“It makes total sense to have a package that can make sure everybody has a chance to rise and I think the public loves it”, Kasich told reporters Wednesday. “He’s clearly done his homework”. “In short, he does not have the money or organization to be viable in SC and beyond”, said Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray.
Still, that may be tough to sell in SC and beyond.
Thanking volunteers and supporters, Christie said he did “not regret one minute” of the time spent in the early-voting state. He angered many Republicans by publicly embracing President Obama during a disaster tour days before the election. “If Jeb has momentum we’ll do very well”.
“And also national security”. Outlining a detailed strategy to combat the Islamic State was what distinguished his campaign from others, he said. “Our disappointment tonight is not on you, it’s on me”. We must be front and center and not marginalized.
New Hampshire delivered a painful personal blow to Ms Clinton, who squeezed out the narrowest of victories in Iowa last week.
“I cannot get over the number of people who came up to me at these town halls I do with Jeb – many are political junkies, it’s a sport out there – I can’t get over how many people I’ve recognized in the crowd who came to my own town halls”. “Trump’s the master at capturing people’s angst”, Bush said.
US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a Democratic socialist, defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the state’s Democratic contest. “To hit them before they hit you, because they don’t mind dying?’ and everybody raises their hands”, he said. And he readily admits that working with Democrats is essential to getting things done. Hillary Clinton, the most experienced politician in either field of candidates, won just 38 percent of the Democrats’ vote tally last night. But Trump wasn’t publicly choosing among his opponents.
But Mr Trump also tapped into a deep well of anxiety among Republicans and independents in New Hampshire, according to exit polling data, and he ran strongest among voters who were anxious about illegal immigrants, incipient economic turmoil and the threat of a terrorist attack in the United States. “And one of those is we need to protect the homeland from Islamic terrorism, and you don’t do that by banning all Muslims”. “There’s his comments about Muslims; saying most illegal immigrants are rapists and drug dealers”. Now we take this campaign to the entire country. “The narrative he’s creating is taking every 2012 problem and making it worse”. Ted Cruz an uncouth epithet for a coward. Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants whom many have hailed as the face of a modern Republican Party.
“While running for president I tried to reinforce what I have always believed – that speaking your mind matters, that experience matters, that competence matters and that it will always matter in leading our nation”, Christie wrote on his Facebook page and in an email to supporters.
“Donald Trump would be a disaster as our nominee”, Bush said Wednesday on MSNBC. He thinks he’s doing good, but he’s not, and it’s not on goal. “I do not want black concerns to be moved out with them. He’s just in over his head”, Graham said.
SC is not Kasich’s only blind spot. But 42% want the next president to change to more liberal policies, and Sanders won those folks, 82%-17%.
Rubio has a statewide network of staff and volunteers, but the buildup occurred only recently, while John Kasich’s senior adviser John Weaver says the OH governor’s campaign now has 12 paid staff in SC and would have roughly 200 staff and volunteers on the ground in the state by Wednesday afternoon.
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“The idea is, if you can win SC, you can win nationally”. Despite his state’s reputation for rough politics, he thinks it will go smoothly. His campaigns suggestion that the race could veer a contested convention seemed to signal to mainstream Republicans that the party would be ill-served by allowing the Trump phenomenon to last much longer. “… He just says, “I’ll fix it, I’ll solve it, it’ll be fine, it’ll be huge” or whatever, but there’s nothing tangible that would suggest he has the skills to do it”.
