if one of the aims one of the hopes of
New Hampshire last night was to whittle
down the number of candidates and give
Democratic voters somebody to get behind
that is not really what happened here
there is still five in the running three
of whom can legitimately claim to still
be gaining momentum and that could
further split the vote in the months to
come as you said senator Bernie Sanders
did manage to eke out something of a
victory but to put it in context all the
votes from around here from the from the
elections are converted into delegates
and there are 4,000 delegates up for
grabs in total across the 50 states and
the winning candidate needs to secure
about 2,000 of those to win the
Democratic nomination in Iowa last week
in New Hampshire last night represent
just 65 of those delegates so there is a
long long way to go but a win is a win
and in that sense last night with Bernie
Sanders night his supporters waited
white-knuckled as they watched the
screens and the last agonizing votes
trickled in and when it was finally
clear that Bernie Sanders had squeaked
over the line the senator promising
revolutionary change strode in to soak
up his moment of New Hampshire glory
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he'd hoped his victory would be decisive
but despite the strong turnout he won by
just a tiny sliver less than 2% of votes
this victory here is the beginning of
the end for Donald Trump we are putting
together an unprecedented
multi-generational multiracial political
movement yet the young voters he hoped
would flock to him also split their
support
turning to Bernie's younger more
centrist Democratic rivals we're going
to Nevada we're going to South Carolina
we're going to win those states as well
but when you just we've learned one
thing
and that's because of this guy Bernie's
supporters de ride him as Wall Street
heat for his corporate backers yet the
former mayor from Indiana 40 years
Bernie's jr. is gobbling up his voters
and thanks to you a campaign that some
said shouldn't be here at all has shown
that we are here to stay some feared
that his surprise tight victory in Iowa
would fizzle here but mayor Pete's
momentum and message of more moderate
change injured so many of you decided
that a middle class mayor and a veteran
from the industrial Midwest was the
right choice to take on this president
not in spite of that experience but
because of it he might actually have won
here were it not for the fact his votes
New Hampshire clearly loved her but she
used her prime time TV slot to introduce
herself to the rest of America too
what is lacking is that sacred trust
between the people of this nation and
the President of the United States and
my friends I will restore that trust it
was her performance in a TV debate just
days before the catapulted Amy Klobuchar
from fifth place in Iowa to third place
here leaving other big names behind many
had written her off but as the night
progressed it was clear Democratic
voters were more than ready to give this
Midwestern moderate a second chance I
think she's just very solid she's very
smart and Pathet I don't work in
Washington ya get things done I've
looked at her background she's done
awful lot and she's a woman and I think
we need a woman president by far the
biggest upset of the night was the
dismal showing for former Vice President
Joe Biden who left before the votes were
even counted conventional wisdom had it
that he would take New Hampshire in the
end all he took was a hammering to
second chances for God's sake it's he
who's now hoping the upcoming vote in
South Carolina with its sizable African
American population will give him not
his second but his third chance he loses
one more contest and it could be
bye-bye'd Biden not so for Bernie the
self-appointed Democratic Socialist is
out in front now and he'll do all he can
to capitalize
caption the minting your partying we're
excited we're moving on we're going to
Nevada Neff South Carolina after that
we're gonna take the victory in our
minds we're already on to the next state
we just want him to win because we feel
like he is actually he's the future they
believe he's the future but with less
radical contenders still in the race
will the rest of America agree well we
were in the room last night and you
could really see the nerves on the faces
of Bernie's team there was a real fear
that he might lose to Pete Buddha sure
and that really underscores the
fragility of his victory it was nothing
like the thin pea the thumping win
rather that he secured last time around
against Hillary Clinton of course the
problem is the number the sheer number
of candidates still left in the race and
that is before the billionaire Mike
Bloomberg properly joins in everything
could change of course when his name
appears on the ballot for the first time
in California next month between now and
then of course he will be looking to
capitalize on what many see as the
Democratic disarray with so many
candidates still left in the running
another person of course looking to
capitalize on that chaos in fact he's
already take a look at his Twitter feed
is Donald Trump of course