Update 6am London time:
.@BernieSanders 26% is on track to be the lowest vote share for a winner in the modern history of the NH primary https://t.co/3kzyNdivbR
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) February 12, 2020
According to exit polls from the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders won roughly half of voters under age 30, and those who identified as “very liberal
But Sanders was much weaker with older votershttps://t.co/tVooHSM1NT
— POLITICO (@politico) February 12, 2020
Among the most striking aspects of the contest, vote-share of moderate candidates’ (Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar) came in at more than 50 percent, swamping that of progressives Sanders and Warren, who together accounted for less than 40 percent of the vote https://t.co/ZiKzNtNWoW
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 12, 2020
A majority of GOP primary voters said they felt more allegiance to President Trump than to the Republican Party, compared to 39% who said the reverse in early exit poll results. https://t.co/uSW4BNI55R
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 12, 2020
The establishment pick fails to establish anything. https://t.co/FljneKU5Nc
— Slate (@Slate) February 12, 2020
Edward Luce: There is no messiah on the horizon. The party’s indifference is also a testament to Donald Trump’s political skills. He knows how to stoke fatalism among his opponents https://t.co/PlxKCkA55D
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 12, 2020
Calmly envisioning a future in which Bernie Sanders is elected president and two of the three major cable channels focus endlessly on who can unite the country in the 2024 race while Fox announces a new show devoted to exposing people who got health care but don't deserve it.
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) February 12, 2020
The 2020 Democratic candidates’ delegate totals after Iowa and New Hampshire:
Buttigieg: 23
Sanders: 21
Warren: 8
Klobuchar: 7
Biden: 6https://t.co/xrtLirIVVN— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) February 12, 2020
Earlier:
STARTING NOW: New Hampshire votes in what could become the first decisive outcome after the tumultuous Iowa caucuses. Watch @ABCNewsLive for complete coverage and analysis. #fitn https://t.co/vFmHkNKdjx
— ABC News (@ABC) February 11, 2020
Polls will begin to close in New Hampshire at 7 p.m. Eastern. Follow along as we await results in the 2nd contest of the 2020 presidential primary.
Find live results and updates from our journalists on the ground here. https://t.co/Dy9VnY4PAq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 11, 2020
MORE: 67% say Pete Buttigieg is about right ideologically, 47% say that about Joe Biden and 44% about Elizabeth Warren.
Meanwhile, 43% call Elizabeth Warren too liberal, 9 points fewer than say the same about Sanders. https://t.co/PT0ouFYIIE
— ABC News (@ABC) February 11, 2020
New Hampshire's undeclared voters, those not registered with any party, make up more than 40% of the electorate, meaning they will have a big influence on the second Democratic nomination contest pic.twitter.com/NINbUG7fZW
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 11, 2020
So what alternate storylines can we expect if Bernie wins big?
1) This is good for Bloomberg
2) This is bad for Eliz. Warren
3) This is bad for Democrats
4) New Hampshire is not representative
5) Why didn’t Klobuchar do better?
6) Can Biden recover?
7) This is good for Trump https://t.co/q3nzzbUWlz— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) February 11, 2020
What do the other 40 per cent want? https://t.co/68Dy83YbUO
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) February 11, 2020
As i have been saying, pump the breaks on saying where the race is going for President. Many twists and turns ahead, & i still believe there is a hunger for a female candidate to be viable going forward. It is only just beginning. We are in the 1st minutes of the 1st quarter.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) February 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1227367181740101632
"Frankly I’d rather run against Bloomberg than Bernie Sanders, because Sanders has real followers … Bloomberg’s just buying his way in," Trump said. https://t.co/kC1PSIKvWv
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2020
Republican voter registration in NH is down roughly 20k voters from 2016 to now. It’s a reminder that Trump’s increased GOP popularity is in part because in some places, the GOP registration rolls have shrunk. https://t.co/nkexApHCzy
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 11, 2020
Elsewhere in Trumpworld…
Part of the problem might be that we’re still calling this the Justice Department. https://t.co/r8kdLlaDId
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 11, 2020
I'm so old, I remember when Bill Clinton having a conversation on a tarmac with his friend Loretta Lynch was a wall-to-wall story on Fox attesting to the corrupt politicization of the Justice Department. https://t.co/Fog4dpXJRX
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) February 11, 2020
Yes, we are in deep, deep trouble https://t.co/0IgfR1gdlj
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 11, 2020
Senate GOP again blocks three election security bills https://t.co/TFv5noZ6W8 pic.twitter.com/kI3WHeVaP3
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2020
Barr has turned the DOJ into Trump's stooge.
McConnell has turned the Senate into Trump's rubber stamp.
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have turned the Supreme Court into Trump's doormat.
The GOP has turned itself into a Trump cult.
At what point do we call this a dictatorship?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 11, 2020
SCOOP: Trump suddenly pulls former U.S. attorney for D.C.'s nomination to Treasury post … https://t.co/ikeGefjpmh
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 11, 2020
If Alexander Vindman wanted to be rescued from the clutches of military justice by this president, he needed to shoot enough civilians so that his comrades would be compelled to testify against him. Having failed to do this much, we can hardly expect Donald Trump's empathy. https://t.co/3aOuukxWWa
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 11, 2020
JUST IN: House committee approves bill to make Washington, DC the 51st state https://t.co/XSWgZ0ZyVC pic.twitter.com/1KQ0KWLVKR
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2020
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WORLD
Chinese state media releases footage of dozens of trucks spray disinfectants in the city of Luoyang amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The death toll of 1,017 has surpassed that of the SARS epidemic, with all but one of the deaths occurring in China. https://t.co/hyKdXyKg21 pic.twitter.com/b0FEIXrVrr
— ABC News (@ABC) February 11, 2020
Coronavirus should be seen as 'public enemy number one', says WHO https://t.co/NBhrSa5JGc
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 11, 2020
The first US evacuee from China known to be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus was mistakenly released from a San Diego hospital https://t.co/8osHpho3gg
— CNN (@CNN) February 11, 2020
The economic effects of the coronavirus could be enough to push the vulnerable German economy, and perhaps the entire eurozone, into a recession, a growing number of experts have concludedhttps://t.co/5IAF9f8LuT
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 11, 2020
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BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Reunification of Ireland and the future status of Scotland are issues “definitely on the table” as a result of Brexit, the former head of the UK Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service has said. https://t.co/RiQ3uCGTBo
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) February 11, 2020
Brexit-supporting British newspapers have inadvertently created an environment in which most of their readers would really rather not read about the emerging reality of the thing they claim to care most about. It's simultaneously fascinating, frightening and utterly ridiculous.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) February 11, 2020
Can everyone stop talking about the fucking Scotland / Northern Ireland bridge – it's bollocks
The real story is that Michael Gove and Boris Johnson LIED
Brexit will bring border chaos, more red tape and increased costs
Put that on a fucking bushttps://t.co/qqiJnlNp4x
— Planet Belfast 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🕷️ (@Planet_Belfast) February 11, 2020
As with so much in Brexit, the process depends on systematic forgetting. We forget that the referendum was delivered on a slender margin explicitly on the promise of business as usual with extra benefits. Ask yourself how the vote would’ve gone if Gove had admitted this in 2016. https://t.co/Iz0GB1JVJ0
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) February 11, 2020
Blimey – challenger bank with 250k customers, backed by Facebook- backer Peter Thiel and Tencent, says it leaving UK over lack of post Brexit passporting…
But the Bank of England’s “temporary permissions regime” offering a three year grace period would still apply… https://t.co/otD2vvxvvD
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) February 11, 2020
One good thing today, though…
It’s official. Northern Ireland’s first same-sex wedding has taken place in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim! Presenting Mrs and Mrs Robyn and Sharni Edwards-Peoples #LGBT @Love_EqualityNI @TRPNI pic.twitter.com/hgoIZvjxwX
— Amanda Ferguson (@AmandaFBelfast) February 11, 2020
Here come the brides: Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, become Northern Ireland’s first gay couple to wed https://t.co/OoJMxyI8Mo pic.twitter.com/K35F3GIrMp
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 11, 2020
