Trump, Sanders maintain leads in New Hampshire while opponents climb

Next up is John Kasich with 10 percent, Jeb Bush is fifth at 7 percent, Carly Fiorina is at 5 percent, Chris Christie has 4 percent and Ben Carson has 3 percent.

Preparations are underway for today’s New Hampshire primary – the second stop in the race to become Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.

“People are looking for people to make decisions and they’re trying to analyze who’s the best person to make those decisions”, says Michael Lopez, a New Hampshire voter.

A winter storm was sweeping across much of New Hampshire on Monday, dumping several centimeters of snow.

Only 25 percent said that they could change their mind on Trump, while 43 percent said they would reconsider Cruz and 49 percent echoed that sentiment for Rubio. Mr Trump may win tomorrow, but Republicans will be waiting to see whether Mr Rubio emerges from New Hampshire as the anti-populist standard-bearer.

Tonight’s vote will be the second battle between Trump and Cruz after the Texas senator Cruz beat him in Iowa’s Republican battle last week.

Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who scored a surprisingly strong third place in Iowa, is hoping to shake off a rough debate performance Saturday night. Sen.

The main Democratic race is between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. “I think it’s a very sad situation that’s taking place”. But New Hampshire was good to her in 2008 – she won here after losing Iowa to Barack Obama – and she brought in her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to blast Sanders in the two days before the primary. “Shout it out, because I don’t want to say”. Trump then joked, for the sake of the press, that he was reprimanding her.

Mr Rubio was also assailed by billionaire Donald Trump and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Sanders leads Clinton by 13 percentage points in an average of polls among the state’s likely Democratic voters in his neighboring state.

Cruz, the Iowa victor, didn’t get a bump in New Hampshire, even as he tried to make a play for libertarians who had previously supported Rand Paul. “He’s a sad person who has gone absolutely insane”, Trump said.

But his campaign did take issue with Mrs Clinton’s claim that Mr Sanders benefited from Wall Street money donated to Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, with campaign manager Jeff Weaver arguing it “suggests the kind of disarray that the Clinton campaign finds itself in today”.