Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary

By Ted O’Neil | The Center Square

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday night as yet another challenger dropped out of the race.

Sanders declared victory around 11 p.m. with 26 percent of the vote, leading former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg by less than 2 percentage points.

As Sanders addressed the crowd of his supporters, he said the results were “The beginning of the end of Donald Trump,” calling Trump “the most dangerous president” in the history of the country.

Not long after the polls closed, California businessman Andrew Yang announced he was suspending his campaign, getting less than 3 percent of the vote. Yang, who advocated a policy to give every adult $1,000 a month for what he called a “universal basic income,” told supporters, “You know I am the math guy and it’s clear from the numbers we are not going to win this race.”

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who finished third in New Hampshire with almost 20 percent, told supporters, “Because of you, we are taking this campaign to South Carolina and Nevada. I cannot wait to win this nomination.”

Buttigieg thanked his team and husband as he congratulated his opponents, referencing his support for Sanders “as a high school student.”

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U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar takes a selfie with a supporter of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren came in fourth at 9 percent, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden at 8 percent.

In the first exit polling data, CNN reported that 62 percent of New Hampshire Democratic voters think the party should nominate someone who can beat President Donald Trump in November, compared to 34 percent who want a candidate they agree with. Almost half of respondents, 48 percent, said they decided who to vote for either on election day or in the last few days, and 48 percent also said Friday night’s Democratic National Committee debate had an impact on their decision.

In an odd quirk that the New Hampshire primary is known for, there are some small towns that go to the polls just after midnight on election day. They account for three of the 300 precincts in the state. Klobuchar ended up with eight votes in those areas, while Warren and Sanders each received four votes.

Yang received three votes in those precincts. Biden and Buttigieg each got two votes, while Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and entrepreneur Tom Steyer each got one vote. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who did not file to be on the New Hampshire ballot, received three write-in votes. Bloomberg has chosen to skip the first four voting states – Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina – and is instead focusing on the March 3 Super Tuesday states and beyond.

In the Republican primary, Trump received 31 votes in those early precincts and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld received five votes.

Biden left New Hampshire Tuesday afternoon and flew to South Carolina, a state that pundits are calling his “firewall,” to continue campaigning there. The Palmetto State holds its primary on Feb. 29 and Biden leads in polling averages there with 31 percent support. Steyer is actually second there with an average of 18.5 percent, with Sanders closed behind at 17 percent.

Warren averages 9.5 percent for third place in South Carolina, with Buttigieg at 5.5 percent, Yang at 3 percent and Gabbard and Klobuchar at 2.5 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

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6 thoughts on “Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary

  1. BERNIE WINS NEW HAMPSHIRE? Big deal. What about President Trump’s showing? Makes Bernie’s win look like chump change.

  2. Socialist Sanders wins NH ( 76K votes ) wow, wait until he gets out of the neighborhood,
    and heads south & west…….Idiots, believing his rhetoric on free stuff

    I can’t wait until the DNC pulls the carpet out from under him again, as they did with
    him for Cankles Clinton and he just a whimpering puppy.

    Oh, DJT received ( 130K votes ) in New Hampshire………

  3. Bernie is definitely did NOT decisively beat Buttigieg, not by a long shot.
    Bernie is a well-known entity from a next-door state.
    No wonder he does well, especially after promising students they would have to pay their debts, which sets a bad example going forward
    What else would he be promising “suffering” groups (who voted for him), in the unlikely event he were elected.

    Buttigieg is an unknown newcomer.
    He is doing very well, and the other aspirants know it.

    It is not surprising Biden has imploded again, as in Iowa, and again big time in NH.
    He and his son have much baggage working for a most corrupt Burisma energy company in most corrupt Ukraine.
    No wonder the father Biden threatened to withhold $1.0 billion in aid, if Poroshenko, his corrupt buddy, did not fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.
    It all stinks to high heaven.

    If his son’s name had been Smith, he would not even get into Ukraine, and certainly on the Board of Burisma, at $50,000 PER MONTH for 5 years.

    And economist/lawyer Warren?
    What happened to her? Pocahontas gone?
    She has been telling different variations of the same story.

    Now, it looks like a two-man race.
    But the US will never elect avowed Socialist to be President.
    Deep down, Bernie knows it, but he keeps on trucking.

    The US economy doing very well would not have happened, if the US were a Socialist country.

    No Socialist country in the world has ever done well.
    Cuba and Venezuela are but two dismal examples.

    Espousing Socialist philosophy in the US is a dead end.
    It would not go over well in Pretoria, Illinois, as they say.

    • Yes Bootyboy is a virtual unknown mayor and burnee only squeaks by him at
      2 percent…sounds to me like the commie is losing traction with the “locals”.
      If liawatha and pedo slow quidpro joe don’t pick it up a LOT their going to
      start loosing out on the donations to keep going. Krowbarchar is picking up
      but she has the likability of Hitlery…hate to see Yang out he was a lefty but not
      off the wall..

    • Sanders, as a Communist/Socialist, should have gotten 50% of the vote to show superiority over others.

      Sanders getting only 26% is a Communist/Socialist loser situation, because the middle of the road moderates got a combined of over 50%

      Pay attention to the numbers

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