Democrats on edge as New Hampshire polls start to close

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The polls hadn’t even closed in New Hampshire, and the presidential main’s two longtime frontrunners have been pulling additional aside than ever before.

There was Bernie Sanders, not only getting ready for a extensively expected victory within the state on Tuesday, but eclipsing Joe Biden for the first time nationally in a Morning Consult ballot.

And then there was Biden, just desperate to escape.

Following a dismal displaying in Iowa and with low expectations right here, the former vice chairman deliberate to go away New Hampshire on Tuesday night time for extra favorable floor in South Carolina. Relatively than Biden, it was a surging Pete Buttigieg whose momentum Sanders was in search of to blunt.

“We've an opportunity to do really, rather well here tonight,” Sanders stated at a polling place in Manchester. “We've got an agenda that speaks to the needs of working families all throughout this nation who in lots of instances really feel that Washington has turned its again on them.”

A Sanders victory would not be sudden after his thrashing of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire in 2016. But when he does win, it will mark his second robust displaying of the campaign, after a one-two end with Buttigieg in a chaotic Iowa contest whose end result has yet to be referred to as.

Biden, meanwhile, has been reeling after finishing fourth in Iowa.

Joe Biden leaves New Hampshire for South Carolina

In an interview that aired Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” he stated he is "anxious to get to South Carolina and Nevada” and that Tremendous Tuesday is important to his prospects.

“I view this as, you realize, a package deal of four, simply out of the gate,” he stated. “And I don’t know how you can decide who is going to probably have the ability to win the nomination until you might have the African-American vote and the Latino vote. And that doesn’t come until later.”

The result on Tuesday was unlikely to finish any top-tier candidate's campaign, regardless how dangerous. And somewhat than beginning to settle the Democratic Get together's nominating contest, the end result was more likely to only muddle it additional.

Along with Sanders, Biden, Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, one candidate polling lower nationally, Amy Klobuchar, might rejuvenate her marketing campaign in New Hampshire. A Boston Globe/WBZ-TV/Suffolk College ballot on Sunday put her in third place in the state, ahead of each Biden and Warren.

“One thing’s occurring right here,” Klobuchar stated at a polling location in Manchester Tuesday morning. “And we simply need to seize the second, so I’m going to work my coronary heart out all day.”

Nor would a second-place finish to Sanders in New Hampshire be crippling to Buttigieg. Nevertheless it might make it harder for him to make inroads within the states that comply with.

In an interview on NBC’s “At the moment” present that aired Tuesday, Buttigieg stated that “voters of colour who are laser-focused on defeating this president, greater than anything, need to know you could truly win,” suggesting robust performances in Iowa and New Hampshire might help him because the campaign turns to Nevada and South Carolina.

Nonetheless, the previous South Bend, Ind. mayor has only 4 % help amongst black Democrats, in accordance with a Quinnipiac University ballot Monday.

For average Democrats, probably the most intently watched candidate Tuesday is probably not a centrist in any respect, but the progressive various to Sanders, Warren. Following a third-place end in Iowa final week — and with polls suggesting she might tumble additional in New Hampshire — many moderates worry that if Warren slips out of rivalry, the celebration’s left flank might coalesce around Sanders.

Warren, of neighboring Massachusetts, might maintain the race on the left competitive with a resurgence in New Hampshire. Asked if she was more pragmatic than Sanders, Warren informed reporters, “I’m decided to get things finished, I’ve already carried out issues and seen the difference it will possibly make.”

Average Democrats are intently occupied with Warren’s viability, hopeful that she may continue to draw some progressive help away from Sanders and cut up the left flank’s vote. The concern is particularly pressing with so many centrist candidates dividing help, including billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who's bombarding the nation together with his tv advertisements.

Buttigieg advised NBC Information on Tuesday that it “can be very troublesome” for Sanders to win the nomination.

"It isn't just because of the labels. It is because of the strategy," Buttigieg stated.

Marc Caputo, Alex Thompson, Elena Schneider, Myah Ward and Quint Forgey contributed to this report

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