WASHINGTON (AP) – Which candidate is ‘the best,’ who’s the most experienced, who’s a revolutionary and who’s a robot?
New Hampshire voters will be the judge of that – and much more – in a presidential primary that turns 100 years old Tuesday.
At stake are the political fates of billionaire Donald Trump’s improbable candidacy, a pair of political dynasties and a gaggle of governors and senators doing a lot of sharp elbowing in the fight for a strong finish in the nation’s first primary of 2016.
Republican billionaire Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders are hoping for their first wins of the 2016 race after coming in second in Iowa behind GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Elsewhere on the Republican side, there’s a four-way battle among governors Chris Christie and John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio to be the alternative that establishment Republicans might like better than Trump. And on the Democratic side, the Clintons are fuming that the state that made Bill “the comeback kid” in 1992 seemed unlikely to vote for his wife over Sanders.