Republicans Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina drop White House bids

Republican presidential candidates Carly Fiorina and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have suspended their presidential campaigns after poor showings at the New Hampshire primary election Tuesday night. The only woman in the Republican field placed seventh in New Hampshire.

The challenge for Cruz is his unproven ability to draw votes from the ideological center of the Republican Party and his prospects for dominating groups most likely to support him. And it led to questions, in combination with some other sort of big misses of the margin in New Hampshire, as to whether or not the polls in New Hampshire were going to be off again this year. Bush, at one time Rubio’s mentor in Florida politics, has no foreign policy experience either, the first-term senator said. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is performing worse than Bush is. Half of the Republican voters said they were seeking a candidate outside the establishment, as did a quarter of the Democrats.

Marco Rubio wins if his post-debate collapse in New Hampshire turns out to be short-term.

Mr Sanders trounced Mrs Clinton in New Hampshire by 60% to 38%, a week after he lost to her by a whisker in Iowa. While it’s still early in the primary season, we have to circle back to Trump’s other coup of the night: Even if there were a clear anti-Trump strategy, it’s not clear which candidate would employ it.

Donald Trump wins by repeating what he did in New Hampshire. Seeking endorsements from any rivals that quit the race, Trump said of Christie, “He’s a friend of mine”.

For all its importance in forming the reality of a presidential race, the New Hampshire primary has long ceased being a rock-solid indicator of destiny.

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, is hoping his family’s pedigree in SC will translate into a top-tier finish after spending much of the campaign behind the front-runners.

The 20-point victory for Sanders in New Hampshire Tuesday is expected to deliver momentum heading into the Nevada caucuses and the SC primary later this month. The victor of the Iowa Republican caucuses, Ted Cruz, came in third place in the Granite State with 12 percent of the vote.

Rubio tried to embrace the GOP uncertainty Thursday, lashing out at Trump, Cruz and Bush on national security at a retiree community outside Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The Republican Party in SC is a lot like the party writ large. Because, in the past, yes there were fewer polls, and some would say that was a good thing, but all of the polls that there were in 2008 showed Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton.

While Jaime Harrison, Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party says,”They have to talk about health care. we have to talk about the crumbling schools and crumbling infrastructure we have here in the state”.