The Democratic Primary Is About to Get Wild After New Hampshire
Bernie Sanders speaks at a primary night election rally in Manchester, NH.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Sorry, New Hampshire. A conventional rule of American politics is that the Granite State imposes order on the presidential campaign, with one of the top two finishers in its first-in-the-nation primary always going on to snag the nomination. But not this…
Joe Biden Had a Bad Night in New Hampshire. His Supporters There Hope Their State Doesn’t Matter.
Matt Rourke/AP It’s never a good sign when you’re addressing your New Hampshire supporters on primary night from South Carolina. Yet this was the position Joe Biden found himself in on Tuesday evening as his campaign sought to downplay his dismal showing in the Granite State, where he was on pace to finish 5th with…
Bernie Sanders Wins the New Hampshire Primary
Steven Senne/AP Sen. Bernie Sanders has won Tuesday’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, according to multiple news outlets. Tuesday marks Sanders’ second primary win in New Hampshire, which borders his home state of Vermont. Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the state’s 2016 primary with more than 60 percent of the vote. Sanders…
Mystery Woman Targets Sanders Campaign in Suspected Sting Operation
Bernie Sanders speaks at the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire.Matt Rourke/AP Sanders campaign operatives believe his campaign may have been the target of an attempted sting operation, after a woman recently attempted to bait local Sanders allies into discussing shady fundraising tactics in phone calls and one in-person interaction. New Hampshire Executive…
After Iowa, Americans Should Get Used to Slow Elections
Iowa Democratic Party chair Troy Price addresses reporters four days after the caucuses.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA There were many, many problems that led to the implosion of the Iowa Democratic Party’s caucuses and the fact that it may never be known who actually won more delegates last week. And while the Democratic campaigns long ago moved on…
Who Needs New Hampshire? The Bloomberg Campaign Is Ramping Up in Massachusetts.
William T Wade Jr/ZUMA While the rest of the Democratic field frantically barnstormed New Hampshire on Saturday, a field director for Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign was opening his pitch to a room full of volunteers about an hour beyond New Hampshire’s southern boundary, in Massachusetts. This time of the year in New England, presidential organizing…