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Feb 12, 2020
Politics: Sanders edges Buttigieg in New Hampshire Democratic primary, Biden finishes fifth
John Whitesides
5-6 minutes
MANCHESTER,
N.H. (Reuters) - Bernie Sanders strengthened his front-runner status in
the race for the Democratic nomination with a narrow win in New
Hampshire, dealing a setback to moderate Joe Biden as attention shifts
to the next contests in the state-by-state process.
Pete
Buttigieg, the moderate former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, built on
his momentum with a close second-place finish after splitting much of
the centrist vote with Senator Amy Klobuchar, who placed third after
surging over the past few days.
The focus of the campaign to pick
a Democrat to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in November
begins to shift on Wednesday to states more demographically diverse than
the largely white and rural kick-off states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
“This
victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump,” Sanders
told supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire late Tuesday.
In a
sign of the growing rivalry between Sanders, the 78-year-old
self-professed democratic socialist senator, and Buttigieg, a
38-year-old moderate, Sanders’ supporters booed and chanted “Wall Street
Pete!” when Buttigieg’s post-primary speech was shown on screens.
Turnout
approached the record of 287,000 set in 2008, the year of Barack
Obama’s historic candidacy, easing Democrats’ concerns about voter
engagement after lower-than-expected turnout in Iowa.
The next
contest is on Feb. 22 in Nevada, where more than one in four residents
are Latino, followed a week later by South Carolina, where about one in
four are African-American.
After that, 14 states including
California and Texas vote in the March 3 contests known as Super
Tuesday, which will also be the first time American voters see the name
of the billionaire former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg on the
ballot.
Democratic
U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders addresses supporters
at his New Hampshire primary night rally in Manchester, N.H., U.S.,
February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar
The
Democratic field shrank to nine main candidates after businessman
Andrew Yang and Senator Michael Bennet, who had trailed in the polls and
performed poorly on Tuesday, dropped out.
But even their exits
provided no clear answers for Democrats trying to decide whether their
best choice to challenge Trump would be a moderate like Buttigieg,
Klobuchar or Biden, or a progressive like Sanders and Senator Elizabeth
Warren, who placed a distant fourth.
Sanders had 26% of the vote
and Buttigieg had 24% with more than 91 percent of precincts reporting.
Klobuchar had 20%, Warren 9% and Biden 8%.
BIDEN LEAVES NEW HAMPSHIRE EARLY
Biden,
the former vice president who was once the front-runner in the
Democratic race, limped to his second consecutive poor finish after
placing fourth in Iowa. He is certain to face growing questions about
his ability to consolidate moderate support against a surging Buttigieg
and Klobuchar.
He left New Hampshire before the polls closed,
heading to South Carolina where his campaign contends that support from
black voters will help his chances.
“It ain’t over, man. It’s just getting started,” an energetic Biden told supporters in South Carolina.
“We
just heard from the first two of the 50 states,” he said. “Where I come
from, that’s the opening bell, not the closing bell.”
NEXT STOP NEVADA
Klobuchar’s campaign said it was spending more than $1 million on ads in Nevada.
Slideshow (2 Images)
“We
have beaten the odds every step of the way,” Klobuchar told supporters
in Concord. “Because of you, we are taking this campaign to Nevada. We
are going to South Carolina. And we are taking this message of unity to
the country.”
Buttigieg, who would be the first openly gay U.S.
president if elected, still faces questions about what polls show is his
weakness with African-American voters, one of the most loyal and vital
Democratic voting blocs.
He also decried the growing polarization of politics and the recent Democratic infighting.
“In
this election season, we’ve been told by some that you must either be
for revolution or you are for the status quo. But where does that leave
the rest of us?” Buttigieg asked supporters in Nashua. “A politics of my
way or the highway is a road to re-electing Donald Trump.”
On
the Republican side, Trump easily won the state’s presidential primary,
defeating rival William Weld, the former governor of neighboring
Massachusetts.
Reporting by John Whitesides, James Oliphant,
Simon Lewis, Michael Martina and Amanda Becker in New Hampshire,
writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Soyoung Kim, Peter Cooney and Chizu
Nomiyama
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