Daily US Times, New Hampshire: Bernie Sanders has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary contest, while Joe Biden experienced a terrible night.
The left-wing senator achieved a slight margin victory over centrist former South Ben Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who offered a different Democratic vision in the race to take on President Trump in November.
The victorious Sanders described the election night as “the beginning of the end” of Mr. Trump.
The oldest Democratic candidate’s success in Iowa and New Hampshire in a row offers momentum for the race ahead.
Buttigieg and Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar finished behind Mr. Sanders. Klobuchar emerged as a surprise contender by taking third place.
The night was a disaster for two frontrunner- Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Mr. Biden, as both finished in fourth and fifth places.
Andrew Yang and Colorado senator Michael Bennet both dropped out of the race.
New Hampshire results?
26% of some 280,000 Democratic voters cast ballots for Sanders in the Granite State on Tuesday night.
With 95% vote counted, Sanders led Buttigieg by a margin of only 1.6%, about 4,300 votes.
In the victory speech, the 78-year-old candidate thanked supporters from a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.
He said, “This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump” and promised to build an “unprecedented multi-generational, multi-racial political movement” to defeat the Republican.
The victory means Mr. Sanders will have 9 of 24 delegates who will represent New Hampshire at the July Democratic national convention, where the party crowns a nominee based on the delegates won.
Though Buttigieg defeated in popular votes, he will also get nine delegates. In his speech after the result came clear, he thanked supporters and warned against succumbing to “a polarised vision” of politics and pitched himself as the centrist to bring new voters into the party.
Voter turnout of New Hampshire was in higher numbers than in 2016, unlike the Iowa votes.
Tough night for Warren and Biden
Before the votes were even tallied, Warren’s campaign manager pointed in a memo to her ability to organize in all 57 states and territories” and argued that no one candidate “has yet shown the ability to consolidate support.”
The senator congratulated Bernie Sanders and described herself as the unity candidate, indirectly pointing that Sanders, Biden, and Buttigieg have all targeted one another over the past week.
She said, “These harsh tactics might work if you’re willing to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing. But if we’re going to beat Donald Trump in November, we are going to need huge turnout within our party, and to get that turnout, we will need a nominee that the broadest coalition of our party feels they can get behind.”
Biden, who finished fourth in Iowa, became fifth in New Hampshire. But he was already in South Carolina by the time the New Hampshire results rolled in. He hopes to draw attention to his lead in the Palmetto State, casting it as a chance to prove that his strong support among African American voters could carry him to the Democratic nomination.
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