Cruz, Clinton win Iowa

Several Republican candidates, all calling themselves conservatives but minus some of the harsher rhetoric employed by Cruz, are looking to New Hampshire to revive their campaigns after poor showings in the farm state of Iowa. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida and, on the Democratic side, Sen.

Republican Ted Cruz may have prevailed in Iowa despite the polls favouring Donald Trump but New Hampshire is quite a different challenge with a more moderate and less religious electorate than the evangelical Cruz would like.

Mrs Clinton was bidding to banish the possibility of dual losses in Iowa and in New Hampshire, where she trails Mr Sanders, who is from neighbouring Vermont.

In fact, in 2015, Clinton had a 32-point lead over Sanders, 74, although that advantage has all but evaporated in recent weeks.

Rubio’s surge in the market comes as he placed a solid third in the Republican Iowa caucuses last night, surprising pundits and relishing in what he considers a victory that helps him solidify himself as an establishment favorite.

By the slimmest of margins, the Associated Press and CNN have declared Hillary Clinton the Democratic victor of the Iowa caucuses. But Iowa Democratic Party spokesman Sam Lau tells The Des Moines Register that seven coin flips were reported statewide, and that Bernie Sanders won six of them. How Trump holds up in New Hampshire will say a lot about whether the billionaire entrepreneur can sustain his campaign over the long haul.

Clinton was thus awarded 700.59 state delegate equivalents, while Sanders got 696.82. But that does not alter the likelihood that she will ultimately prevail, once the race moves into states that better reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of the Democratic Party.

The Trump campaign has given his New Hampshire supporters similar big rallies and Cruz continues with his meet and greets throughout the small New England state.

“I think he’s done pretty well from the start”, said Eli Johnson, 33, from nearby Brookline, New Hampshire.

“Some people thought the debate, you know, not doing the debate might have been a positive for perhaps my opponents”, Trump said. Clinton’s camp claimed victory, which state party officials confirmed Tuesday.

He added: “Iowa has sent a note that the next President will not be chosen by the media”. Nevertheless, he told an assembled crowd following his single win, “I hope the analysts in Washington and NY, who spent June and July explaining our campaign was dead, will watch this tonight and learn a little bit from this crowd and this place”.

Sometimes that happens quickly: On Monday night, Democrat Martin O’Malley and Republican Mike Huckabee announced immediately that they were out.