Trump, Sanders win New Hampshire primary

Mrs Clinton, who has more support from the Democratic establishment, narrowly won in Iowa.

He seemed to go into some kind of daze while his wife was speaking on stage.

As polls closed, her campaign manager Robby Mook blasted out a memo touting Clinton’s strength with Hispanics and black voters and arguing that a Democrat can not win the presidency without support from those constituencies.

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during his victory speech as his wife Melania, looks on at his 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire February 9, 2016.

We are through the first caucus and the first primary, yet both races remain intriguing and oh so hard to predict. “We are going to do something so good and so fast and so strong and the world is going to respect us again”.

“I know I have some work to do, particularly with young people”, Clinton said during a concession speech. “As a public servant, it requires me to do all that I can to ensure that every person lives with dignity and security”. “But they’re also hungry”. Do they want someone who expresses their rage but maybe can’t deliver on much of anything they promise, or do they settle for someone who might be able to get them something close to what they want?

If Mr Rubio and the governors finish in a pack, it is likely to frustrate Republican Party elites who are eager to coalesce around a single more mainstream candidate to challenge Mr Trump and Mr Cruz, whom they believe could be unelectable in the November general election. Or will the Republican establishment end up having no choice but to support Kasich, despite his more liberal stance on immigration reform and his support of universal health coverage, if Trump is to be stopped?

On the Democratic front, Clinton failed to confound polls that for weeks predicted a large victory for her insurgent challenger Sanders, who is big on erasing economic inequality.

Also in the fray for primary scraps were former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Senator Marco Rubio.

In a sign of Trump’s impact on the race, two-thirds of GOP voters said they supported a temporary ban on non-citizen Muslims entering the USA, a position the billionaire outlined a year ago amid rising fears of terrorism emanating from the Middle East. Like Trump, Sanders is an angry anti-establishment candidate who rouses great passions in the electorate and attracts some of the same voters Trump attracts, even though they are in different parties. “We’re going to win in South Carolina”, Trump said, looking down the campaign trail to the next stop. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who finished a disappointing sixth in New Hampshire, told supporters he would return to his home on Wednesday to assess the future of his campaign. It also reflects the fact that New Hampshire is more hospitable to Sanders than coming contests in other states – including SC – will be.

In the week since her slim victory in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, Clinton’s campaign tried to lower expectations in New Hampshire, the site of her 2008 comeback. “We are going to make America great again”.

Meanwhile, the soft-spoken Kasich, whose campaign has focused on issues rather than personal attacks, put almost all his resources into doing well in New Hampshire. Santorum earned 23 percent of the New Hampshire evangelical vote in 2012, while 21 percent of evangelical voters voted for former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Among those so-called superdelegates, Clinton already has a commanding 352-delegate edge in the race for the 2,382 needed to win the nomination.