New Hampshire primary sets tone for presidential race

“It’s insane if you say, I have an honest disagreement and here’s why”.

Rubio’s point was that even though he is a first-term senator, he should not be compared to Democratic President Barack Obama, who was a first-term senator when elected in 2008.

But his campaign did take issue with Mrs Clinton’s claim that Mr Sanders benefited from Wall Street money donated to Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, with campaign manager Jeff Weaver arguing it “suggests the kind of disarray that the Clinton campaign finds itself in today”.

On Tuesday, New Hampshire voters will submit their presidential pick in the primary, the second major electoral event since the Iowa caucus.

Clinton has sought to play down expectations for her performance in New Hampshire, noting that Sanders is a U.S. senator from neighbouring Vermont.

Kasich, who has been rising in the polls in New Hampshire, is another candidate seeking to profit from Rubio’s troubles.

Though he enjoyed a brief surge in polls in New Hampshire late previous year, Christie has appeared to drop back amid a surge of attack ads in the state – many of which have reportedly been paid for by groups supporting Rubio.

“Well, actually, I would pay them to keep running that clip because that’s what I believe passionately”, Rubio said, before repeating himself twice more for good measure.

After finishing behind Cruz in last week’s leadoff Iowa caucuses, Trump has spent the past week both protesting that result and stepping up more traditional campaign activities. New Hampshire voters could decide how big the GOP field is going forward.

The next contests will take place in SC and Nevada later this month.

Clinton was dogged by a rumor that there would be a campaign shake up following New Hampshire, which she denied. Following a win for Texas Sen.

As Christie and other New Hampshire presidential primary candidates are fanning out to polling places across the state Tuesday in a last effort to drum up support, the New Jersey governor might have to deal with what a political analyst calls a “boomerang effect” from his Rubio attack.

“Jeb is having some kind of a breakdown, I think”, Mr Trump told CNN, calling Mr Bush, the son and brother of presidents, a spoiled child and an embarrassment to his family.

“Wall Street, it’s fraud”, Sanders said.

“I think his record proves he’s a conservative”, he said. “They don’t want somebody who is slick-tongued and says all the right things, and then get to Washington and does absolutely nothing”.

After his narrow loss in Iowa, Sanders needs a decisive victory in New Hampshire, because “if Clinton’s loss is smaller than expected, it will likely diminish his chances”, Patterson said.