Name: Democratic candidates' next battleground is New Hampshire
Uploaded: 2020-03-17T08:52:57.000Z
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And while the DNC is still scrambling to release results from yesterday's Iowa caucuses, candidates are already looking toward New Hampshire, where the next primary is happening a week from today.

It's the second state to pick a favorite among the Democratic presidential hopefuls, and a CBS News poll in the Granite State shows Senator Sanders with a narrow lead over former Vice president Joe Biden.

Our political correspondent, Ed O'Keefe, is working around the clock.

He now joins us from Manchester, New Hampshire, and I hope you have a lot of coffee in you.

We're going to get some after this, Laura.

Is it going to change anything that's happening now in New Hampshire?

Well, look, the goal, certainly for candidates who would have done well enough in Iowa with verified absolute results, was to come here and and be victorious and use that victory to sort of slingshot them into Tuesday's primary here in New Hampshire.

But with no verifiable results on the possibility that we may never get completely accurate and reliable and complete data from Iowa, it's a Ziff.

They now have only a week to find a fresh contest.

There's no incentive for somebody to drop out just yet.

There's nobody who can declare outright victory, although several rival camps this morning are trying to do that in different ways.

And it is very likely that the situation in Iowa will end up in court unless the Iowa Democratic Party can produce the results for the first round of caucusing.

That second round that sets the delegate count.

And then, of course, the final kind of who exactly gets what.

Part of the concern back in Iowa is that there may not be paper verification for each of the rounds of voting and the roughly 1700 precincts across the state.

It is likely that at least one of these campaigns, likely the biting campaign could take this whole situation to court.

They would like to diminish the results of Iowa as much as possible because they're not going to do well there.

Sanders and Buddha judge will and so bye, raising concerns and trying to drag that process out.

The hope is that Biden, consort of divert attention to New Hampshire to Nevada to South Carolina, where he's poised to do better well without the receipts.

As you said, What are the polls saying here in New Hampshire?

Yes, yeah, essentially the same lineup as we had in Iowa.

Bernie Sanders on top, Joe Biden Right behind them.

Remember, here in New Hampshire, geography comes into play.

Bernie Sanders is from the West and Vermont.

Elizabeth Warren is from the South in Massachusetts.

They're well known figures because media markets bleed into each other.

They're familiar to a lot of people who work in either of those states are familiar with their work.

Biden has a mixed track record in this state.

Frankly, in any election that he ran in before for president and Buddha.

Judge has spiked since the summer, in part because he was doing so well in Iowa and was starting to earn some attention from this state who wanted to get a look at what exactly I was so fascinated by.

So he was hoping to come in here today, where he's holding at least six events at last count.

It was victorious in Iowa and try to compel this state to vote from a swell.

We'll see exactly how it goes, but clearly now they all understand they have about another week to go when they're going to be competing against the State of the Union tomorrow night, the final impeachment vote.

And they all have to spend Friday night together on a debate stage.

And based on what you're seeing, what you're hearing on the ground, which of the candidates candidates has the best operation in New Hampshire to either surge ahead or keep their momentum?

Well, certainly Sanders and Warren again have good ground operations here, in part because they're well known.

Warren, especially at least that's the early read Buddha judge, thanks to the money he's raised in, the interest he's generated, has managed to build a decent sized team.

There will be questions about the Biden operation because it was exposed in Iowa is pretty weakened, unorganized and we'll see whether he has a better operation in this state in the coming days, or if much of this is driven by his name recognition and his own ability to go out and campaign on his behalf.

But certainly the Sanders and the war in campaigns, probably in better shape than most remember the level of organizing you have to do in a primary state is far less than you have to do in a caucus state, where you have to get down to the precinct level on and find people in each of those roughly 1700 spots in Iowa.

You don't do that here in New Hampshire here, it's just a simple go to the ballot box any time on primary day and cast your vote more traditional, something that most of these candidates are far better at than caucuses.