Rubio vows more aggressive approach in extended campaign

“He needs to go into SC and participate down there and participate reasonably well”.

Donald Trump’s resounding victory – he got more than twice as many votes as any other Republican – was not driven by conservative ideology. One-time front-runner Jeb Bush was happy to still be fighting while New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former businesswoman Carly Fiorina suspended their campaigns.

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

The former secretary of state lost New Hampshire’s Democratic primary Tuesday 60 to 38 percent after losing the support of groups she was counting on.

Sanders’s victory – which would have been all but unimaginable a year ago – is a truly remarkable achievement for a “democratic socialist” who began the campaign as a mere blip in the polls, little-known nationally and lacking any party establishment support whatsoever. A former state senator and nine-term House member who later worked at Lehman Brothers, he was elected governor in 2010. Sanders would be unable to crack.

Now, as the unruly Republican presidential field decamps for SC, many in the party are predicting a drawn-out and damaging primary fight.

The day was also a blow for Rubio, who had appeared to be breaking away from the second-tier Republican pack after a stronger-than-expected third-place showing in Iowa. Christie was sixth at 7%, a finish that left him without an apparent path to carry on.

Almost half who voted in the Democratic primary said that between Sanders and Clinton, they thought only Sanders is honest and trustworthy.

Cruz added that Trump would lack similar advantages heading into South Carolina’s primary on February 20. Only 40 percent of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters said they wanted the next president to continue Obama’s policies. John Kasich, who finished second, spent more or less the entire campaign thus far in New Hampshire.

“I had these massive poll numbers but you never know if they’re going to be real”.

Bush also vowed to maintain his attacks on Trump, saying the businessman’s campaign is based on insults and disparagement, and a Trump nomination would gravely damage the Republican Party in the fall election.

And Cruz shouldn’t be underestimated in SC, or in a string of other southern primaries that come up March 1, Super Tuesday.

“As it often does, New Hampshire has reset the race”.

“And when we (grow the economy), we make sure we leave no one behind: the mentally ill, the drug addicted, working poor, everybody has a right to rise in America and to restore the spirit of this country”, Kasich said. I thought it would be somebody else, but it wasn’t, it was John…

It was enough to persuade Christie, who staked much of his campaign on New Hampshire, to head home to mull next steps rather than going to SC. Trump won 35 percent of the vote in the Republican race. I think it’s a really exciting time to be a Republican and the Republican Party has a lot of shakeup going on.

“Together we have sent the message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from ME to California”, said Sanders during his victory speech Tuesday night.

The anecdote was dropped in an article in today’s New York Times examining how Rubio’s robotic repetition of a talking point about Barack Obama tanked his campaign.

CBS News exit polling of a sampling of female New Hampshire voters shows a generational divide.

In a sign of Trump’s impact on the race, two-thirds of Republican voters said they supported a ban on Muslims entering the United States, a position the billionaire outlined past year amid rising fears of terrorism emanating from the Middle East.

Even Candace Cameron Bure, who is known for her conservative standpoint on the show, noted after Sanders’ sit down that though she does not agree with the candidate’s views, she was pleased with his appearance on the chat show. That is not feminism.