Cruz finishes third in NH primary, Bush fourth

What did shock, however, was the margin by which Sanders secured the millennial voting block, and the surprise second place finish by previously mostly ignored Ohio Governor John Kasich. Ted Cruz is expected to take third over former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, but both candidates are separated by less than 1 percent of the vote. He will make a decision on next steps Wednesday, WNYC’s Matt Katz reports. In June 2015, she led Sanders by almost 40 points. His victory was fueled by young voters who went overwhelmingly to Sanders.

Cruz also got the most endorsements of any GOP presidential candidate from New Hampshire’s state legislators, according to The Washington Post. Clinton, though, finished some 20,000 votes short of her 2008 vote total.

But Clinton had massive leads there when the campaign first began a year ago, and the state has been good to the Clintons in the past. Chris Christie, bruised from a demoralizing sixth-place finish, was expected to bow out of the race. Clinton won the former, Sander the latter, and they tied overall. You can watch that debate at 9 p.m. on PBS.

“Do we have a ground game or what?” They trailed Sen. Ted Cruz ($11), Ohio Gov. John Kasich ($273) and the victor, businessman Donald Trump ($31).

“Somebody wants to mess with me, they’re messing with the wrong guy”, Kasich said. – The economy is not her issue any more.

There’s another, less official GOP victor tonight: Kasich.

For the past 60 years or so, most of the candidates who ended up winning the White House won their party’s primary in the so-called Granite State. I’m disappointed. Our disappointment is not on you.

This has been the dynamic at the heart of both the Sanders and Trump campaigns: huge rallies full of extremely animated and passionate supporters. ” ‘I have an insurance policy”. All of them voted overwhelmingly for Sanders. He looked, in the past few days, scripted and robotic. And the only reason they didn’t end up in fifth place was because Rubio stuck his foot in his mouth Saturday night, a point Rubio himself admitted a couple of hours after the polls closed.

Yuge indeed. New Hampshire was definitely “Feelin’ the Bern” Tuesday night. New Hampshire Democrats went for a socialist.

Now the fight moves to SC, a state with a lingering reputation for bare-knuckle campaign tactics.

What do you think these results mean looking ahead?

Young voters in New Hampshire liked Sanders’ populist proposals to break up big banks and have the government pay for free college tuition.

Sanders said his victory “sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from ME to California”. But that’s the amount his campaign and superPAC spent on TV ads in New Hampshire for each vote Bush received in the primary on Tuesday.

Clinton wins in Nevada and SC would give her a needed momentum boost, but would not necessarily knock Sanders out of the race on their own. “I don’t know if we will be the old state that picks the nominee or if we are going to pick the flavor of the week”. So we’re not going to sit back and take a pounding from everybody.

New Hampshire is supposed to clarify things. He just needs to stay in the top tier of candidates into March and then come in first in the winner-take-all states from March 15 on, adding that he has no “firewall” state unlike some of his foes.

Another way of thinking about last night’s Democrat divide is “Independents” versus “Democrats”. “Hispanics and African Americans play a critical role in who we are as a party and who we are as a nation”. But there’s a potential generational divide even there. In celebration of the big victory, Sanders supporters yelled “Yuge” in return, and it was an adorable moment.

For Trump, the brash real estate billionaire and television personality who has never held public office, the win was an important rebound after his loss to Texas Sen.

Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia CommonsAmerica’s pollsters can breathe a sigh of relief: The outcome of last night’s New Hampshire primary largely mirrored the trend their polls had been finding in the state. We don’t win on trade.