Christie Expected to End White House Bid

“I don’t need to start these fights, but if someone starts one in the future we’re going to have to point out the differences in our records in a sharper way”, Rubio said.

New Hampshire was supposed to be where a strong Rubio performance would force some of his establishment competitors, like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, out of the race, allowing him to scoop up their donors and support.

“I always felt that universal health care is important, and his ideas definitely appeal to me”, Susanne London said of Sanders, noting his margin of victory over Clinton in New Hampshire did not surprise her. “I would be surprised if that happened in SC”.

“Just because it’s the 80th time you heard it may be the first time someone else heard it”, Rubio said of his speeches.

Clinton’s rival, Vermont U.S. Sen. But she cast herself as more prepared to make good on her pledges.

“People have every right to be angry”, she said, as she conceded to Sanders.

No candidate who came out of Iowa with a boost got much of anywhere in New Hampshire.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jeb Bush says he was better at real estate than Donald Trump, and the former Florida governor is even embracing the “establishment” label.

The parties will fight off Sanders and Trump eventually, although neither the consensus for Clinton on the Democratic side nor the consensus against Trump on the Republican side produced results in New Hampshire.

The day was a blow for Rubio, who had appeared to be breaking away from the second-tier Republican pack after a stronger-than-expected showing in Iowa.

“Christie didn’t really attack like he knows how to attack until last Saturday night, when he knocked out Rubio at the debate”, Katz wrote.

Christie, however, didn’t benefit from roughing up Rubio.

Asked why he didn’t attack Christie during the debate, Rubio called it a “strategic decision that turned out to be wrong” and that he didn’t want to use “valuable” air time to attack the New Jersey governor.

Trump’s victory in New Hampshire showed pundits were wrong to think he would quickly self-destruct based on his penchant for insults and imprecise plans for the presidency. Most Republican politicians, for whatever reason, have been ducking public endorsements.

More than half of voters in the Republican primary made up their minds in the past week.

Just since winning the Granite State, the Sanders campaign announced more than $5.2 million in mostly small contributions to help it continue pressing for what it has termed political and economic revolution.

Trump’s remaining rivals are still splintered. And the former Florida governor has a wild card in his brother, former President George W. Bush, who won a hotly contested 2000 primary in the state and “cuts a wide swath” across the party, Bush aide Brett Doster said. Hillary Clinton won the majority of those over 65.

Early preference polls suggest Trump draws support from across the spectrum and Rubio’s campaign has long suggested he will prove his wide appeal in SC.

Since Iowa began holding the first-in-the-nation caucus in 1976, no Republican has finished second there and first in New Hampshire and failed to win the nomination.

The stunning victory by Sanders, an independent lawmaker, was a potential warning sign for Clinton as she turns the campaign toward the next states that vote, Nevada and then SC for the Democrats.

As she bats back allegations of mishandling classified information on her email server, Clinton struggled with voters who prioritized honesty and trustworthiness.