Trump and Sanders big winners in New Hampshire, riding voter frustration
According to his campaign managers, Senator Sanders raised $20 million (€17.8m) in January, more than Hillary Clinton, who received $15 million (€13,3m).
Democrat Hillary Clinton, the former USA secretary of state and former U.S. senator, now looks wounded, trailing Sanders by 60 per cent to 39 per cent based on 86 per cent of the returns.
Trump had 35 per cent, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich a distant second with 16 per cent. His candidacy, with a moderate tone markedly similar to Kasich’s, flamed out after he finished third in New Hampshire.
That outrage isn’t just a GOP hallmark, though: Sixty-one percent of Democratic voters said they were dissatisfied or angry with the federal government – and those voters broke for Sanders by a 42-point margin.
Their victories reflect deep bipartisan discontent at professional politicians and suggest that both the Democratic and Republican races will now be long struggles that could stretch well into the spring, CNN said.
“We are going to make America great again, but we’re going to do it the old-fashioned way”, Trump said. The surveys that are on record, though, indicate that Clinton was holding a massive lead in the state even as Sanders was surging in Iowa and New Hampshire. Jeb Bush seems genuinely thrilled to say his campaign “is not dead”. We may not like it but I heard parts of Bernie’s speech – he wants to give away our country folks, he wants to give away.
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The distinctions between what motivated Sanders and Clinton voters were sharp. “We’re going to beat China, Japan”. “Clearly he’s brought a lot of new people into the fold”.
And Rubio said he wasn’t upset at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for going after him at Saturday’s debate, when the Florida freshman repeated the same line three times – despite being directly criticized for sticking to the script. But he said he learned a valuable lesson: To fight back “frontally” when he’s being criticized.
“I am going to New York City tonight, and tomorrow, but I’m not going to New York City to hold a fundraiser at Wall Street”. “Wow, wow, wow, wow”, Trump declared, savoring his victory at a campaign rally before promising swift action as president on the economy, trade, health care and more.
But Trump appeared in New Hampshire to learn from some of the mistakes his campaign made in Iowa.
Unlike after the Iowa caucuses, the latest results have not led to a winnowing down of the Republican field from nine candidates. Rubio was the great Republican hope, as he can potentially appeal to both conservative and establishment voters, but his fifth place result in NH means that the establishment still cannot coalesce around a single candidate. “You’ve got to know what the plan is”. But he stumbled in a debate Saturday under intense pressure from Christie who cast the young senator as too inexperienced and too reliant on memorized talking points to become president. Sanders also benefited in NH by being from the neighbouring state of Vermont, something that may help him in other contests in the New England region. Almost half of voters said they preferred someone with experience in politics, while half want someone from outside the political establishment.
The next big contest will be in SC, where hard-line conservatives dominate the Republican electorate, and where African-Americans dominate the Democratic electorate. Next for Democrats is the Nevada caucus on the same day.
Just like in 2012, the candidate most heavily favored by the evangelical voters in Iowa, was not the most heavily supported candidate by the evangelical voters in New Hampshire.