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  • 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 off a victory.

  • But to put it in context, a.

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  • The votes from around here from the from the elections are converted into delegates, and there are 4000 delegates up for grabs in total.

  • Across the 50 states on the winning candidate needs to secure about 2000 of those to win the Democratic nomination.

  • And Iowa last week in New Hampshire last night represent just 65 off 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 watch 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.

  • He 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 off the end for Donald Trump way, 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 gonna win those faces tonight.

  • It's that it's still extremely tight, with no clear front runners because of this guy.

  • Bernie's supporters deride him as Wall Street Pete for his corporate backers.

  • Yet the former mayor from Indiana, 40 years Bernie's junior, 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 on message of more moderate change in June, so many of you decided that a middle class mayor in 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 one here were it not for the fact his votes was with her clearly loved her.

  • But she used her primetime TV slots to introduce herself to the rest of America to 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 that 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 Maur than ready to give this Midwestern moderate a second chance.

  • I think she's just very solid.

  • She's very smart and with that I don't work in Washington, Yeah, 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.

  • We have to be a country of 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 its second, but his third chance.

  • He loses one more contest, and it could be bye bye, Biden.

  • Not so for Bernie.

  • The self appointed Democratic Socialist is out in front now, and he'll do all he can to capitalize on his New Hampshire momentum.

  • We're partying.

  • We're excited.

  • We're moving on.

  • We're going to Nevada next, South Carolina.

  • After that, we're gonna take the victory in our minds.

  • We're already onto the next day way.

  • 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 two pink boo decision that really underscores the fragility off his victory.

  • It was nothing like the thin pick, the thumping win, rather that he secured last time round 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, is already take a look at his Twitter feed.

  • Is Donald Trump, of course.

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.

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