New Hampshire results: Sanders crushes Hillary in Granite State
GOP front-runner Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders (Photo: Twitter)
It’s official: GOP front-runner Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders are the winners of the first primary of the 2016 election season in New Hampshire Tuesday.
Reacting to news of Trump’s win, Fox News analyst Howard Kurtz declared: “A clear plurality of Republican voters have just given the middle finger to the GOP establishment.”
Kurtz added, “He was more astute in channeling the public anger and frustration than the media and establishment.”
It’s especially a big night tonight in the Republican race for the nomination, as several GOP candidates had been competing for the coveted second spot behind Trump, who led in New Hampshire polls by double-digit margins for months.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich claimed the GOP’s second spot Tuesday.
Kurtz predicted that Kasich’s second-place win means he will “emerge as media darling du jour for clawing his way back.”
Meanwhile, just as results were posted, the Huffington Post ran with the headline, “A racist, sexist demagogue just won the New Hampshire primary.”
Feb. 9, 2016, Huffington Post headline
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer declared the victory represents a “major, major win for Donald Trump.”
And CNN’s Jack Tapper said Trump’s win is a “remarkable thing to behold.”
Political analyst Gloria Borger said, “He blew everybody away on everything. … Give him his due. He won across the board of all ages. He won all incomes, he won women, he won independent voters.”
The New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner predicted 550,000 ballots would be cast, a turnout of about six in 10 registered voters.
A CNN exit poll Tuesday found about 75 percent of GOP voters said they were very worried about the U.S. economy, 60 percent said they were very worried about terrorism, and 90 percent said they were dissatisfied with the federal government.
And an ABC News exit poll found two-thirds of Republican voters said they favor a temporary ban on U.S. entry for Muslims who are not U.S. citizens, an idea that originated with Trump in December. Also, nearly half of GOP voters said they want a candidate from “outside the political establishment.”
Fox News asked New Hampshire Democrats which candidate is more honest and trustworthy. A full 93 percent of Democrats chose Sanders, while only 5 percent said Clinton.
According to the RealClearPolitics polling average Tuesday evening, Trump emerged the leading contender in New Hampshire with 31.2 percent of the vote. Sen. Marco Rubio received 14 percent; Kasich, 13.5 percent; Sen Ted Cruz, 11.8 percent; and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, 11.5 percent.
Republicans: Trump and Kasich
GOP results Tuesday showed the following here:
Trump: 35 percent
Kasich: 16. percent
Cruz: 12. percent
Bush: 11. percent
Rubio: 11 percent
Christie: 7 percent
Fiorina: 4 percent
Carson: 2 percent
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at Democratic Party debate hosted by MSNBC
Democrats: Bernie crushes Hillary
In the Democratic Party primary, Sanders had the home-field advantage since he hails from neighboring Vermont. RealClearPolitics’ New Hampshire polls had him ahead of Hillary Clinton, 54.5 percent to 41.2 percent Tuesday evening.
Democratic Party primary results Tuesday showed the following:
Sanders: 60 percent
Clinton: 38 percent
Clinton had hoped to hold Sanders’ margin of victory below 10 percent, so she could claim some success in his neighborhood. But those hopes faded quickly as Sanders celebrated a decisive win Tuesday.
In his victory speech Tuesday, Sanders declared, “Together we have sent the message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California. And that is that the government of our great country belongs to all the people and not just wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACs. Because of a huge voter turnout, and I say ‘yuuge,’ we won. The right-wing Republicans we oppose must not be allowed to gain the presidency. The last time Republicans occupied the White House, their trickle-down economic policies drove us into the worst economic downturn since the Depression of the 1930s. The people want real change.”
In remarks made after her loss, Clinton said: “I don’t know what we would have done tonight if we’d actually won. This is still an exciting event. I still love New Hampshire. We’re going to fight for every vote in every state.”
She said people are hungry for solutions to their problems.
“Here’s what I promise: I will work harder than anyone to actually make the changes that make your lives better,” she said. “Citizens United, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions, was actually a case about a right-wing attack on me and my campaign. A right-wing organization took aim and me and ended up damaging our entire democracy. So yes, you’re not going to find anyone more committed to campaign finance reform than me.”
Clinton also promised to rein in Wall Street and protect illegal immigrants who “lie awake at night listening for the knock at the door.” She called for “human rights across the board for every single American.”
She acknowledged, “I have some work to do, particularly with young people. Even if they are not supporting me now, I am supporting them. I have had a blessed life, but I know what it’s like to stumble and fall.”
Clinton asked Americans to join her in “building the progress we’ve made under President Obama.”
Clinton immediately conceded the primary after several news outlets called the race for Sanders. The campaign released the following memo:
“After splitting the first two contests, an outcome we’ve long anticipated, attention will inevitably focus on the next two of the ‘early four states,’” wrote Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. “The nomination will very likely be won in March, not February, and we believe that Hillary Clinton is well positioned to build a strong – potentially insurmountable – delegate lead next month.”
What’s next?
The South Carolina primary – scheduled for Feb. 20 – is the next Republican primary.
The New York Times reported that Sanders plans to have breakfast Wednesday morning with Al Sharpton in New York. Sanders is hoping to boost his support among black voters, especially in Nevada and South Carolina, demographically diverse states that hold February nominating contests. The two plan to eat at Sylvia’s, a Harlem restaurant where Sharpton met then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008. Clinton is currently leading among black voters in national polls.
Rumors about a Clinton campaign implosion were flying Tuesday, along with news that she is considering a post-New Hampshire staff shake-up.
“The Clintons are not happy and have been letting all of us know that,” a Democratic official who speaks regularly to the Clintons told Politico. “The idea is that we need a more forward-looking message, for the primary – but also for the general election, too. … There’s no sense of panic, but there is an urgency to fix these problems right now.”
In an interview with MSNBC, Clinton denied that she planned to fire anyone. She dismissed the Politico report as “gossip.”
But she added: “We’re going to take stock but it’s going to be the campaign that I’ve got. I’m very confident in the people that I have. I’m very committed to them; they’re committed to doing the best we can. We’re going to take stock, what works, what doesn’t work. We’re moving into a different phase of the campaign. We’re moving into a more diverse electorate. We’re moving into different geographic areas. So, of course it would be malpractice not to say, ‘OK, what worked? What can we do better? What do we have to do new and different that we have to pull out?’”
The Clinton camp has hired a new director of black media ahead of the South Carolina primary, according to the Hill. Denise Horn, who worked on Obama’s 2012 campaign, will join the Clinton team Monday.
GOP candidate Ben Carson didn’t even wait for the New Hampshire results before he moved on to South Carolina, a move strategists say show he’s planning to stay in the race regardless of the Tuesday results.
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Trump train rolls, Rubio bushwhacked
Feb 10, 2016 by Chris Stirewalt
GOFFSTOWN, N.H. – The campaigns of Chris Christie and Jeb Bush formed an improbable alliance in the game of “Survivor” that is the second tier of the Republican nominating process.
And it worked. At least for Donald Trump.
Trump didn’t need any help to get to his dominant first-place finish in New Hampshire. Not only did he meet his expectations, he did so after a disappointing second place in Iowa.
Trump’s Iowa stumble seemingly convinced the members of the traditional wing of the Republican Party that the danger from his candidacy was fading. So relieved to see Trump knocked off his high-horse, the rest of the party immediately went back to ignoring him and kicking the stuffing out of each other.
But like the second-place Iowa finisher in 2012, Trump came back to the friendly confines of New Hampshire and made a powerful display of his strength. Trump and his team did everything he needed to show himself to be the true frontrunner in the race.
So dominant was Trump’s lead in New Hampshire that perhaps the other candidates could be excused for ignoring him in the state. But for the two thirds of the party in the state and in the nation that range from skeptical to genuinely alarmed by the possibility of nominating the populist billionaire, Tuesday’s election was about more than the Granite State’s 23 delegates.
Second-place finisher John Kasich, Christie and Bush had followed a time-honored tradition for more moderate Republicans without broad national support: Go to New Hampshire and wait for the chance to bushwhack the frontrunners as they came through.
It has never worked before. Long-shot candidates in 1964, 1996 and 2000 managed to grab upset wins here, but fizzled out thereafter. But it is an impossible temptation to resist.
This time, though, the bushwhackers didn’t have their sights set on the frontrunner or even the second-place candidate, but rather an emerging third-place candidate picking up steam out of a surprising finish in Iowa.
Marco Rubio doesn’t have any more right to the Republican nomination or even a third-place slot than anyone else. In fact, given his relative youth and status as a freshman senator, he probably has less of a right than others. But what he did, and maybe still does have, is a chance to beat Trump and Iowa winner Ted Cruzand, perhaps, likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
While Kasich was legitimately focused on an upset win, Bush and Christie had lower aims for their New Hampshire campout, simply to stop Rubio. As the NYTreported, their campaigns worked together to apply maximum damage to Rubio here.
It worked.
Knocked by multiple attacks, Rubio had his first major debate slip up on Saturday and delivered to his antagonists and an eager press the narrative they had been waiting for: the GOP’s rising star was rising no more.
The slip was Rubio’s fault since he knew the attacks were coming, and even the topic on which the salvos would be launched. But what makes the moment really remarkable was that Christie, who was already out of the running in New Hampshire, attacked with the kind of ferocity that would surely blow back on him.
It appears that Christie sacrificed his candidacy not to stop Trump, or even challenge Cruz, but to blow up the guy in third place.
What resulted was what amounted to a three-way tie muddle for third place and a painful slowdown for Rubio. And that was the perfect outcome for Trump. Like polls for the past six months, he stood alone at the top with the rest of the field locked in a squalid squabbling.
What happens in South Carolina 10 days hence is anybody’s guess, but the strong indication is that the GOP field remains too big and too bitterly divided to stop the candidate who many in the party claim poses an existential threat.
It could hardly have been a better night for Trump, and he can thank Bush and Christie for putting the cherry on top of his sundae.
Chris Stirewalt is digital politics editor for Fox News. Want FOX News First in your inbox every day? Sign up here.
Chris Stirewalt joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in July of 2010 and serves as digital politics editor based in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he authors the daily “Fox News First” political news note and hosts “Power Play,” a feature video series, on FoxNews.com. Stirewalt makes frequent appearances on the network, including “The Kelly File,” “Special Report with Bret Baier,” and “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.” He also provides expert political analysis for Fox News coverage of state, congressional and presidential elections.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/10/trump-train-rolls-rubio-bushwhacked.html
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CAMPAIGN AIDE: TRUMP HAS “SINGLE-HANDEDLY BROUGHT BACK FREEDOM OF SPEECH”
“We have a full-blown assault on the First Amendment.”
Feb 10, 2016 by Steve Watson
A campaign spokeswoman for Donald Trump has claimed that the billionaire GOP front runner has “single-handedly brought back freedom of speech”.
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Katrina Pierson defended Trump’s use of the word “p*ssy” during a rally when he was talking about rival Ted Cruz.
The video of Trump repeating a supporter’s jibe at Cruz went viral, as the crowd in attendance whooped and hollered in support.
CNN asked Pierson whether she wished Trump had not used the language.
“If we’re looking politically at the conditioning of the voters, maybe yes. But with my personal response: Absolutely not,” she replied.
“We have a full-blown assault on the First Amendment. Donald Trump has single-handedly brought back freedom of speech.” Pierson added.
Pierson argued that the vital thing about Trump’s campaign is that he is allowed to speak his mind, and is not being controlled or “testing messages” as all his rivals are.
No where was this more evident than during the last GOP debate when Marco Rubio, the establishment candidate, repeated the same talking point EIGHT times.
Speaking again of Trump, Pierson said “Yes, he did repeat what a voter said. But, at the same time, this is also the ‘Live Free or Die’ state. This is where your rights are really important to you as an individual.”
“And the fact that Donald Trump is out there saying what he thinks and means is important.” she added.
Trump himself told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that he did not regret the exchange with the supporter at Monday’s rally, and that “We were all just having fun.”
Trump continued to speak his mind during a word association game with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, labeling Jeb Bush a “loser”, Rubio as “confused”, Cruz as “nasty” and Hillary Clinton as “evil”.
Trump hit back at the New York Daily News this morning for publishing a front page suggesting that his supporters are mindless zombies:
Dopey Mort Zuckerman, owner of the worthless @NYDailyNews, has a major inferiority complex. Paper will close soon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2016
Worthless @NYDailyNews, which dopey Mort Zuckerman, is desperately trying to sell, has no buyer! Liabilities are massive!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2016
Tomorrow's front page:
DAWN OF THE BRAIN DEAD – Trump comes back to life with N.H. win: https://t.co/rkj242rGEf pic.twitter.com/LRWPDIJJfL
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 10, 2016
Trump has yet to respond to a Huffington Post article that suggest New Hampshire has “gone racist” after Trump trounced his rivals in the primaries there.
Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee has cast Trump as “The GOPfather”, a play on The Godfather films, in its latest attack video.
The insinuation is that Trump is like some kind of mafia boss holding everyone to ransom… or something.
Original here
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Donald Trump Speaks After Winning New Hampshire Primary
Exclusive interview with Donald Trump before victory speech
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