Christie expected to end 2016 White House bid

Ted Cruz placed third. But on Wednesday the contenders began exchanging fire in a way that illustrated the complexities of the race – and the unique calculations each candidate is making. Then, when Christie pressed him, Rubio went back to those same memorized lines again and again.

Christie had poured much of his campaign’s resources into New Hampshire and had considered a good showing there critical. Where most candidates lobby for endorsements from prominent members of their own party, Trump has gleefully insulted Republican insiders. South Carolina Republicans award 29 out of 50 delegates to the overall statewide victor.

Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Marco Rubio knows what he’s doing. It’s a problem for the former secretary of state as she tries to build the coalition of voters needed to win the Democratic nomination, and she knows it, saying of young voters as she conceded New Hampshire to Sanders that, “even if they are not supporting me now, I support them”.

When a voter here asked him to distinguish himself from Kasich, Bush noted that the OH governor “led the charge” to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Women between 30 and 44 in 2008 were slightly more likely to support Clinton than Obama, while this year a lot of them supported Sanders. Kasich also is getting barbs from Bush’s chief S.C. surrogate, U.S. Sen.

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore ended his campaign after failing to win support.

Mr. Trump was not the sole recipient of Mr. Bush’s barbs.

Bush, the former governor of Florida and son and brother of ex-presidents, is looking to the Palmetto State to help revive his flagging White House bid. With a roster of Republican candidates that started out large enough to almost hold a full baseball scrimmage against itself, there was nothing he sold that you couldn’t buy somewhere else.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who dropped out of the 2016 Republican presidential race in December, introduced Bush. Bernie Sanders said, “The people want real change”. “I believe so strongly that we have to keep up with every fiber of our being the argument for, the campaign for human rights”. Fox News Digital Politics Editor, Chris Stirewalt, joined to Federalist Radio Hour to discuss where the candidates go from here and why New Hampshire may or may not matter.

Rubio, too, signaled to reporters on his campaign plane that he would challenge Trump more assertively on his command of policy.

“I thought he was very effective”.

Lastly, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, whose campaign has been plagued by money issues in recent weeks – surrounding the monetary strategy of spending money to find more donors – ran a leaner campaign in New Hampshire, a state that he wasn’t expected to perform well in.

Even more than Bush, Rubio is grappling with how to confront multiple foes. Or Donald Trump winning the GOP primary in New Hampshire last night?

Those results and other details from the poll confirm that Trump is casting a wide net across the GOP spectrum and that he’s well-positioned to battle Cruz for the most conservative voters in South Carolina’s February 20 primary and the conservative Southern states that follow in March.

Christie arrived at the Morristown headquarters shortly after 4 p.m.to inform staffers and volunteers of his decision, Christie campaign spokeswoman Nicole Sizemore confirmed. With a minimal SC operation compared to his rivals, Kasich must work quickly. In 2012, voters here emphatically rejected Mitt Romney, the decisive victor in New Hampshire, and instead backed Newt Gingrich, who turned in two combative debate performances in the week leading to the primary. Second, party elites use their influence to steer voters toward more conventional candidates.