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Agence France-Presse

Bernie Sanders narrowly won New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, solidifying his front-runner status in the White House race and dealing a setback to moderate rival Joe Biden, who finished a disappointing fifth.
Sanders, the flag-bearer for the party’s progressive wing, had 26 per cent of votes with most of the count complete in the northeastern state, where he routed Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“Let me take this opportunity to thank the people of New Hampshire for a great victory tonight,” Sanders told cheering supporters after NBC and ABC called the result in his favour.
“This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump,” the senator from neighbouring Vermont added as raised the roof with his rallying cry for fairer taxes and health care reform.

Indiana ex-mayor Pete Buttigieg finished in second place at 24 per cent as he readied for the more difficult battlegrounds ahead.
“Now our campaign moves on to Nevada, to South Carolina, to communities across our country. And we will welcome new allies to our movement at every step,” he said.
Midwestern moderate Amy Klobuchar maintained a late surge to place third on about 20 per cent, while liberal Elizabeth Warren finished in fourth at about nine per cent.
US President Donald Trump weighed in, tweeting: “Bootedgeedge (Buttigieg) is doing pretty well tonight. Giving Crazy Bernie a run for his money. Very interesting!” Trump tweeted.
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After months atop the pack, Biden had already conceded he expected to do badly in New Hampshire, as he did a week earlier in Iowa – and the former vice-president’s worst fears were beginning to materialise as he languished in fifth with just over eight per cent.
The performance will be a body blow to the 77-year-old Biden, who has failed to generate the fundraising numbers or the enthusiasm levels of his rivals for the top spot on the Democratic ticket.
White House hopefuls had been seeking clarity in the Granite State after the first-in-the-nation Iowa count devolved into chaos, with Sanders and Buttigieg eventually emerging neck-and-neck.

For tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, that meant facing reality and bowing out after they failed to make an impact on Tuesday.
“You know I am the math guy, and it is clear tonight from the numbers that we are not going to win this race,” Yang said.
The 78-year-old Sanders went into the race as the newly anointed national front-runner and was expected to win New Hampshire.
Buttigieg’s camp will be happy with a solid result that could provide voters on the fence with much-needed reassurance after he won narrowly in Iowa.
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The Afghanistan veteran is languishing at 10 per cent in the latest national polls and has negligible support among African-Americans in upcoming states with more diverse populations.
Pundits believe this vital constituency will start to take a serious look at Buttigieg, a virtual unknown a year ago, after his impressive top-two finishes in the opening races.
In a sign of the growing rivalry between Sanders and Buttigieg, Sanders’ supporters booed and chanted “Wall Street Pete!” when Buttigieg’s post-primary speech was shown on screens.
Klobuchar’s popularity in New Hampshire surged after a strong debate on Friday, moving her ahead of Warren, whose performance will do nothing to revitalise a wounded campaign.

Warren admitted to MSNBC the result was a disappointment but insisted: “This is going to be a long primary process.”
“The question for us Democrats is whether it will be a long, bitter rehash of the same old divides in our party, or whether we can find another way,” she said later.
Biden, apparently seeing the writing on the wall, cancelled a primary-night party and was in South Carolina as the results came in.
“We just heard from the first two of 50 states. Two of them. Not all the nation, not half the nation, not a quarter of the nation,” he told supporters.
“Now, where I come from, that’s the opening bell – not the closing bell.”
Buoyed by his strong start, Sanders has emerged as the national Democratic front-runner with 25 per cent support, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll that described his surge as a “dramatic shift”.
Biden has skidded from 26 to 17 per cent support since the end of January.
Significantly, the survey also showed billionaire Michael Bloomberg vaulting into third place on 15 per cent – suggesting a possible upset when New York’s former mayor, who is skipping the first four nominating contests, throws himself fully into the race.
Competing for the support defecting from Biden, Bloomberg is focusing on Super Tuesday on March 3, when 14 states vote – spending a record US$260 million of his personal fortune on his campaign.
Turnout in New Hampshire 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.
Additional reporting by Reuters


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11 February 2020, US, Concord: US Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar celebrates with her supporters after a strong third-place finish at the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the second nominating contest in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election. Photo: Preston Ehrler/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire/dpa

Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend and 2020 presidential candidate, right, welcomes his husband Chasten Buttigieg to the stage during a primary night rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, fending off strong challenges from Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar as he sought to solidify his status as standard bearer of a Democratic party split between progressives and moderates. Photographer: Kate Flock/Bloomberg

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to a supporter at a campaign rally on the night of the New Hampshire primary in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Randall Hill

Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is accompanied by his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders at his New Hampshire primary night rally in Manchester. Photo: Reuters

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Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, where he won the primary by a landslide in 2016. Photo: AFP

Campaign buttons for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are seen at a campaign event, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

epa08210180 Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L) claps as Bernie Sanders speaks during a Bernie Beats Trump campaign rally, in Durham, New Hampshire, USA 10 February 2020. The first in the Nation Primary is to be held in New Hampshire on 11 February 2020. EPA-EFE/KATHERINE TAYLOR

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FILE PHOTO: Eight 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are seen in a combination image from file photos (L-R top row): Billionaire Tom Steyer, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L-R bottom row): South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. REUTERS/File Photo

Bernie Sanders headlined an election eve rally in New Hampshire, where he won the primary by a landslide in 2016. Photo: AFP

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Andrew Yang suspended his campaign for president after failing to make an impact in the New Hampshire primary. Photo: AP

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