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About Last Night: Leaving New Hampshire Edition
We have the first primary votes of the 2020 Presidential Campaign in, and unlike Iowa we have them on the night it actually happened.
We have the first primary votes of the 2020 Presidential Campaign in, and unlike Iowa we have them on the night it actually happened. Senator Bernie Sanders won as expected, but much closer than he probably liked. Pete Buttigieg surged to a close second, Senator Amy Klobuchar surprised in third, Joe Biden’s free-fall continues, and Senator Elizabeth Warren looks to be almost as done as Andrew Yang and Michael Bennett, who both bowed out before the votes were even counted. Let’s dig through it.
Senator Bernie Sanders:
There will be plenty of “Bernie on track for nomination” headlines this morning but there is still reason to be cautious. There are plenty of signs that the Democratic Party isn’t feeling the Bern as much as advertised. The good news here is after flat turnout in Iowa, New Hampshire’s turnout was strong, besting 2016 and creeping close to 2008 level. The problem for Sanders is that, despite him talking about how increase turnout is good for him, it doesn’t seem to have helped him any:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the consensus declared winner of the New…
