Trump and Sanders triumph in latest round of USA elections

My sigh of relief at Trump’s loss faded away as the gap tightened between Clinton and Sanders on Monday night.

Result of the New Hampshire primary.

Restive Democrats had their own act of anti-establishment defiance, lining up behind Vermont Sen.

“Tonight, we did not wind up where we wanted to be”, he said, “but that does not change where we’re going to wind up at the end of this process”. “Maybe greater than ever before”.

With his wife Karen at his side Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich cheers with supporters, February 9, 2016, in Concord, N.H., at his primary night rally. “Just 16 percent for her”. His campaign regenerates momentum with a big win in New Hampshire. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush all locked in a tight race, along with Cruz.

Experts say outsider Sanders has an uphill battle for the nomination against the Clinton juggernaut.

The Texas senator brushed off Trump’s comments, saying the reason the businessman engages in insults “is because he can’t discuss the substance”. “But I’m ok at handling threats”.

Clinton lost the female vote to Sanders on Tuesday night, a demographic group her campaign has long considered her core constituency.

Clinton appeared in her concession speech to be trying to co-opt Sanders’ message about an economy stacked against the middle class.

His campaign launched ads Wednesday in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Colorado and MA – all states where it believes he has a chance to boost his nomination chances.

The Clinton campaign had denied such reports before the New Hampshire vote.

“People have every right to be angry”. “But they’re also hungry, they’re hungry for solutions”. But the outcome had been brewing for months.

In remarks Tuesday night, Rubio acknowledged his bungled debate performance Saturday night hurt him: “It’s on me”, he said. Trump carried a majority of those who said they wanted an outsider to win, according to exit polls conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks. He told supporters that instead of going to SC, he’ll head home to “take a deep breath” and take stock of his struggling presidential bid. South Carolina GOP Chairman Matt Moore lashed out at Trump’s plan to temporarily ban Muslims from the U.S.as un-American and unconstitutional. But it bears noting that, in hundreds of surveys and in the Iowa and New Hampshire results, Trump has not been able to break through his popularity ceiling: about one-third of the party supports him, but that’s it. If you combine Tuesday’s votes for the four mainstream candidates (Kasich, Bush, Rubio and Christie), 45 percent supported the so-called “Establishment” compared to Trump’s 35 percent.

Prophetically, Google tweeted before the last polls closed that Kasich was the top-searched GOP candidate in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

“Though Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide over Hillary Clinton, he will likely receive fewer delegates than she will. Sanders won 60% of the vote, but thanks to the Democratic Party’s nominating system, [Bernie Sanders] leaves the Granite State with at least 13 delegates while [Hillary] leaves with at least 15 delegates”.

But while Clinton also told MSNBC on Monday she has “no idea what they’re talking about or who they are talking to” regarding the Politico piece, she did acknowledge her campaign is “going to take stock”.

Q: Exit polls in New Hampshire indicated that voters care far less about electability than finding someone who “shares my values”.

“You went viral?” Clinton said. “People who supported Clinton … they like the idea that they think she’s electable, they like her experience in government, all of the years that she’s been involved”, Foreman said.

It’s a very similar divide to the split in the Republican party.