And then there were 6; GOP 2016 field narrows

Since the New Hampshire primaries, former tech executive Carly Fiorina and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have withdrawn from the race. Trump called Cruz a “liar” this past week; Cruz’s communication manager said Trump was having a “Trumpertantrum”. Bush (185), Kasich (141) and Trump (37) haven’t been adding to their support at all.

In the past few weeks, voting has started and a handful of candidates have left the race, raising the stakes for the remaining contenders hoping to go the distance. The narrator also suggested that Trump would lose a general election to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ted Cruz, who finished first in Iowa, and, as the sole representative of the so-called party “establishment”, the young and comparatively inexperienced Sen.

With that bit of political history out of the way, it can be said without qualification that Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary proved an quake has hit the Republican and Democratic parties. “But they’re also hungry, they’re hungry for solutions”. Even if this happens, Kasich may just be too moderate to win.

“I’ll tell you, what we are seeing is the old Reagan coalition coming together”, Cruz said.

Kasich seemed to bask in his strong showing in New Hampshire, striking an upbeat tone and noting that he has attracted much more interest in his bid.

Their wins in New Hampshire were not unexpected but some of the stats from the exit polls will have party strategists scratching their heads.

Though recovered from defeat in the Iowa caucus, Mr. Trump hardly has a cakewalk to the Cleveland convention ahead of him.

Cruz’s supporters believe that the Texas senator’s finish behind Trump and Kasich on Tuesday cleared the path for Cruz as a constitutional conservative. Marco Rubio. Ben Carson is, for all intents and purposes, out of the race.

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

If Cruz “doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen”, Trump wrote.

Cruz, challenging Trump for prominence in the anti-establishment far-right lane, highlighted their “glaring differences” during an appearance in SC. Ted Cruz, who each came to the state with a burst of momentum after the first two nomination contests. “So I’m not anxious about what the other folks say”, Kasich said. “I’m grateful that they ran”.

The Florida senator’s close third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses sparked fears among fellow GOP candidates he might outflank them to become Donald Trump’s major rival and concern among Democrats that the Republicans might actually nominate their strongest potential standard bearer.

Some of Marco Rubio’s best moments on the campaign trail have been on the debate stage, where he’s won praise for articulating his message and deftly fending off rivals’ attacks.