Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses ecstatic supporters following his win in the New Hampshire primary. (Reuters) 
 
 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses ecstatic supporters following his win in the New Hampshire primary. (Reuters) 
 
 Donald Trump resoundingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary Tuesday night, giving the billionaire mogul his first victory in an improbable and brash campaign that already has turned American politics upside down. 
 
 Ohio Gov. John Kasich, on the strength of his optimistic focus on economic renewal and lifting people out of the shadows, finished a distant second, while former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) headed toward a photo finish for third place. 
 
 Trump galvanized voters here with a visceral fixation on immigration and economic populism, affirming that even after last week’s setback in the Iowa caucuses, his candidacy has genuine appeal with the GOP base as well as with the independent voters who were part of his winning coalition. 
 
 Beaming as he claimed victory before hundreds of cheering supporters, Trump vowed to “work like hell” as president to fix what he sees as the nation’s chronic problems. 
 
 “We are going to make our country so strong,” Trump said. “We are going to start winning again. . . . We don’t win with anything. We are going to start winning again, and we are going to win so much, you are going to be so happy.” 
 
 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders thanked supporters for high voter turnout after winning the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9. (Reuters) 
 
 On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders notched a decisive win over Hillary Clinton in a state she had won in 2008. The Vermont senator’s win sets the stage for long nominating battle against the former secretary of state who is struggling to right her once-formidable campaign. 
 
 Written off as a fringe candidate when he launched his bid last spring, Sanders has found a receptive audience for his populist, anti-establishment message. His insurgent message casting Clinton a member of the old guard appears to be resonating with many voters. Sanders’s appeal Tuesday was greatest among younger voters, according to exit polls reported by CNN and other networks. But he also won decisively among male voters and held his own among female votes against Clinton. 
 
 [Sanders’s decisive victory promises to make Democratic race more combative] 
 
 “For many voters, there was a question about whether Senator Sanders’s message and his campaign could go toe to toe with the Clinton organization, and I think in Iowa he proved that we could,” said Sanders’s campaign mananger Jeff Weaver. “A victory in New Hampshire further amplifies that reality to voters all across the country.” 
 
 The Democratic race now moves to Nevada, which holds caucuses on Feb. 20, and then South Carolina, which holds a primary on Feb. 27. After that, 11 states hold contests on March 1, known as Super Tuesday. 
 
 Once a huge favorite in New Hampshire, Clinton had tempered expectations of late, and her campaign had sent out an email fundraising appeal that presaged her poor showing and looked ahead. “We absolutely, critically need to make sure Hillary comes out on top in the states that lie ahead,” the email said. “Our opponent is raising massive amounts of money online, and we need everyone on Team Hillary to step up, too.” 
 
 New Hampshire, the initial primary of the election year, could jolt the chaotic 2016 Republican race by re­invigorating the flagging candidacies of Kasich and Bush and delaying the winnowing of the establishment contenders. 
 
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 “There’s magic in the air with this campaign,” Kasich told supporters in Concord. “We see this as an opportunity for all of us — and I mean all of us — to be involved in something that’s bigger than our own lives, to change America, to reshine America, to restore the spirit of America and the leave nobody behind.” 
 
 Rubio, who arrived in New Hampshire last week on a roll after claiming momentum from his impressive third-place finish in Iowa, suffered at the polls after his halting performance in Saturday night’s debate and a week of intense attacks from his rivals. 
 
 “Our disappointment tonight is not on you — it’s on me. I did not do well on Saturday night. So listen to this: That will never happen again,” Rubio told supporters in an uncharacteristically subdued speech Tuesday night. 
 
 [New Hampshire primary election results] 
 
 Cruz, the Iowa victor, whose hard-line politics were an ill fit for New Hampshire, was in the hunt with Bush for third place. But New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had staked his political future on this state, trailed the leading candidates in sixth. 
 
 Like many of his opponents, Christie was scheduled to take his campaign to South Carolina on Wednesday. But running low on money, and with the upcoming map looking bleak, he announced he would head home to New Jersey and discuss with his family whether to continue his campaign. 
 
 Turnout in the Republican primary was predicted by state officials to set a record of about 280,000 voters. 
 
 For Trump, the victory here was sweet vindication, showing that his atypical campaign — which invested relatively little in advertising, field organizing or data programs — could prevail largely on the power of celebrity and saturation media coverage. 
 
 In his speech Tuesday night, Trump cast himself as the savior for a beleaguered country. From trade to illegal immigration to terrorism to drug abuse, Trump said he offers the cure. 
 
 “I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created — remember that,” Trump boasted. “We’re going to knock the hell out of ISIS.” 
 
 He added: “We are going to make America great again, but we are going to do it the old-fashioned way. . . . The world is going to respect us again, believe me.” 
 
 The margin of Trump’s win was the largest in a New Hampshire Republican primary since 2000, when John McCain defeated George W. Bush by 49 percent to 30 percent. 
 
 But there was also potential for concern in Tuesday’s outcome. As in Iowa, Trump faced doubts in the New Hampshire campaign about his discipline as a candidate and about whether he can build his support beyond the levels he has shown in the polls. 
 
 Those vulnerabilities are likely to be tested further in the upcoming contests in the South, starting with South Carolina’s Republican primary on Feb. 20 and turning a week later to a group of “Super Tuesday” states. 
 
 As the race moves south, Kasich faces immediate hurdles to prove that he is more than a one-state wonder. In the South, Trump has found deep and enthusiastic support for his incendiary nationalistic platform. Cruz is well positioned to contend with Trump for the top spot in those states because of his broad support from movement conservatives and evangelical Christians. 
 
 Jeb Bush, whose once-promising candidacy had languished since last summer, pulled out every stop over the past week in hopes for a finish strong enough to start a revival. Bush pledged to fight on to South Carolina, vowing that “this campaign’s not dead.” 
 
 He said pundits last week had declared “a three-person race between two freshman senators and a reality-TV star. And while the reality-TV star’s still doing well, it looks like you all have reset the race.” 
 
 Cruz avoided raising expectations that he might win in New Hampshire and instead tried to showcase his organizational strength in states where he thinks voters will be looking for an ideologically consistent conservative. 
 
 Another candidate with his eye on the South is Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, who sees a more hospitable environment for his soft-spoken and faith-infused conservatism. He finished fourth in Iowa but fell behind in New Hampshire amid campaign difficulties. 
 
 Twenty-three delegates were to be awarded proportionally in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, a fraction of the 1,237 total needed to secure the nomination. Yet in recent presidential campaigns, New Hampshire has played an important role in crowning the eventual nominee — Mitt Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008 — and the state prides itself on a better track record than Iowa of predicting winners. 
 
 But the state also has a history of being a launching pad for insurgent candidacies with a maverick streak, including Patrick J. Buchanan, who defeated Robert J. Dole in 1996, and McCain, who bested George W. Bush in 2000. Trump in many ways has echoed Buchanan’s nativist emphasis on immigration and trade. 
 
 Party leaders and prominent donors had hoped that New Hampshire would deliver a clarifying verdict that would anoint a consensus establishment candidate who could challenge Trump and Cruz. 
 
 But there was little finality to Tuesday’s result. The jumbled finish signaled that the nominating battle may be contentious and crowded for weeks to come as a half-dozen or so candidates see reasons to soldier on. 
 
 Kasich’s rise in New Hampshire was as quiet as Trump’s was loud. During a political season in which a number of voters seemed drawn to outsiders, Kasich ran squarely on his insider credentials: 18 years in the House, an architect of a balanced federal budget, a denizen of Wall Street and the Fox News Channel studios, and a two-term governor of Ohio. 
 
 The sometimes cantankerous 63-year-old governor shrugged off his skeptics, trained his eyes on New Hampshire and ground out an old-fashioned campaign. He held 106 town hall meetings in every corner of the state, charmed local Republican leaders and won a large share of newspaper endorsements. 
 
 In the closing days, as his opponents lobbed increasingly caustic attacks at one another, Kasich took a different route, refusing to engage in the negativity and sounding upbeat and even-tempered in Saturday night’s ABC News debate. 
 
 Celebrating his second-place finish, Kasich told supporters, “Tonight, the light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning.” 
 
 The debate was a harbinger for other candidates, too. Rubio’s jarring and mechanical repetition of his talking points — as Christie assailed him for being callow and rehearsed — zapped the energy that came with his Iowa finish. In the days since, he was widely mocked from local radio programs to national late-night television. 
 
 Although he tried, Rubio did not recover quickly enough to salvage his standing in New Hampshire. Still, he was set to carry on as a top-tier national candidate. 
 
 Despite having knocked Rubio down in the debate, Christie did not reap the rewards himself. He was burdened by his state’s fiscal record and administrative scandals as well as with stinging ads from a pro-Rubio super PAC highlighting some of the governor’s past liberal positions. 
 
 Bush also hoped to be buoyed by Rubio’s stall. Running as a conservative voice of reason and an aggressive Trump foe, he slowly found his footing here and was assisted by his allied super PAC’s substantial, multimillion-dollar advertising blitz. 
 
 Overall in New Hampshire, more than $72 million was spent by outside groups alone, including ad buys, media production and direct mailers, according to federal filings as of Feb. 9. 
 
 Carly Fiorina, a former technology executive who briefly ascended as a grass-roots favorite after fiery debate performances, finished with just 2 percent of the vote in Iowa. In New Hampshire, she clocked another finish in the low single digits, which could add pressure on her to drop out. 
 
 Anu Narayanswamy in Washington contributed to this report. ||||| Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire Donald Trump have won the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in New Hampshire, in victories so decisive that the drama of primary night shifted to the Republicans battling for second, third and fourth place. 
 
 Projected to finish in second was Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a relatively moderate candidate who might face a difficult time unifying the party behind him in the next few primary states. After Kasich, there was a close race for third between Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) — who won the Iowa caucuses last week — and former Florida governor Jeb Bush. 
 
 Behind all of them was Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who had been seen as the strongest challenger to Trump until a disastrous debate performance on Saturday, in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie attacked Rubio and the senator responded by repeating the same talking point over and over. 
 
 But if Christie’s attack had hurt Rubio, it didn’t seem to have helped Christie himself: Christie was running behind Rubio, last among the four “establishment” candidates. 
 
 The results for his challengers seemed to be a good one for Trump, since it was likely that a large number of them would continue on to the next primaries, dividing the voters who want to see Trump defeated. 
 
 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders thanked supporters for high voter turnout after winning the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9. (Reuters) 
 
 [New Hampshire primary election results] 
 
 In the Democratic race, Sanders was projected as the winner over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who had been seen as her party’s prohibitive favorite a year ago. 
 
 “Nine months ago, we began our campaign here in New Hampshire, we had no campaign organization. We had no money. And we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America,” Sanders said to his supporters. “And tonight, with what it appears to be a record-breaking voter turnout, because of a huge voter turnout – and I say YUGE! – we won,” Sanders said, poking fun at the New York City accent he shares with Trump. The crowd had yelled “YUUUGE!” along with him. 
 
 Sanders said that the enthusiasm his supporters showed in New Hampshire could be replicated in other primaries and in a general election, with a strongly left-wing message drawing out new voters who’d be left unenthused by a centrist. 
 
 “That is what will happen all over this country!” Sanders said. 
 
 Sanders is a self-identified “democratic socialist,” originally little known outside Washington and his home state of Vermont. But he built a massive movement with rousing attacks on the power of Wall Street, and a promise of a “political revolution” that would provide universal, government-run health insurance and free public-college tuition. 
 
 Sanders was also helped by Clinton’s struggles to explain why she’d used a private email server to handle government business while she was secretary of state, a scandal that has hung over her candidacy for months. 
 
 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses ecstatic supporters following his win in the New Hampshire primary. (Reuters) 
 
 “Now we take this campaign to this entire country. We are going to fight for every vote in every state,” Clinton told supporters after conceding. She then returned to a constant theme of her campaign, which was that she — unlike Sanders — was ready for the long slog that politics demands. “People have every right to be angry. But they’re also hungry. They’re hungry for solutions.” 
 
 Clinton’s defeat in New Hampshire was so resounding – and so long anticipated – that Clinton’s campaign conceded immediately when the polls closed at 8 p.m. The campaign sent out a statement downplaying the importance of New Hampshire, which Clinton won in 2008. Her campaign promised to fight on through March, including the next-up contests in Nevada and South Carolina. The next states, Clinton’s campaign said, would be more likely to turn out her way. 
 
 [New Hampshire primary live updates:] 
 
 “Whereas the electorates in Iowa and New Hampshire are largely rural/suburban and predominantly white, the March states better reflect the true diversity of the Democratic Party and the nation,” Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook wrote in the statement. Clinton’s campaign has said it expects to do far better among African American and Latino voters than Sanders will. 
 
 Exit polls reported by CNN showed that Sanders had beaten Clinton across a wide variety of demographic groups — including women, who voted for Sanders by a margin of 55 percent to 44 percent. 
 
 Sanders also won decisively among self-identified independents, taking that group by 72 percent. The two candidates evenly split voters who identified themselves as Democrats. Sanders also won all the ideological groups that the polls surveyed: Democratic voters calling themselves “very liberal,” “somewhat liberal,” and “moderate” all preferred him to Clinton. 
 
 Another telling detail: Clinton won handily among the voters who said the quality they wanted most in a candidate was “electability.” Her advantage among that group was 81 percent to 18 percent. But Sanders dominated in the group that said the most important quality was that the candidate “cares,” and in the group that said it was most important that the candidate was honest. In the group that cared about honesty, Sanders won by 92 percent to 6 percent, according to CNN. 
 
 Among Republicans, Trump’s victory — even though it had been predicted for weeks — is still a remarkable turnabout. Last summer, Trump had seemed like an afterthought in a race that seemed likely to be dominated by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the massive campaign warchest assembled to back Bush. 
 
 But Trump’s TV experience made him a commanding figure in early debates, where other candidates seemed unsure how to handle a candidate who insulted their looks and told them to shush. And Trump’s blunt message, which promised a massive wall on the southern border and a program to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants, resonated with voters who felt their party had ignored the issue for too long. 
 
 “We are going to do something so good, and so fast, and so strong. And the world is going to respect us again. Believe me,” Trump said to supporters, during a speech that began with Trump thanking his late parents. Trump then reviewed a series of campaign promises, including his plan to build a wall on the southern border. “We’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be built. It’s not even, it’s not even a difficult thing to do.” He also said he would be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” 
 
 The crowd chanted “Trump! Trump! Trump!” 
 
 “That’s so beautiful,” Trump said. 
 
 In a moment that captured so much of this campaign, Trump’s speech happened at the same time as Bush’s own speech, and largely kept Bush – projected a year ago as the race’s favorite – off the air. 
 
 For Trump, the victory here in New Hampshire was a vindication of his unusual campaign style, which favored huge rallies and free TV exposure over the kind of data-driven, expensive voter-turnout efforts that mark most modern campaigns. 
 
 In Iowa, Trump used that approach and lost to Cruz and his high-tech “ground game.” But in New Hampshire, it was enough. 
 
 Trump’s approach is likely to be tested further in the upcoming contests in the South, starting with South Carolina’s primary on Feb. 20 and turning a week later to a group of “Super Tuesday” states. 
 
 One of the big New Hampshire surprises was Kasich, a pragmatic Midwesterner whose candidacy has been an afterthought nationally but who steadily built a pitch-perfect campaign for this state that roused mainstream voters with high visibility on the ground and a call to lift up people in the shadows. 
 
 Kasich told supporters Tuesday night that his second place finish was evidence an optimistic message could win. 
 
 “There’s magic in the air with this campaign,” Kasich said. “We never went negative, because we have more good to sell.” 
 
 The Ohio governor called on supporters to join his effort “to re-shine America. To restore the spirit of America. And to leave no one behind.” 
 
 But the race now moves south, where Kasich faces immediate hurdles to prove he is more than a one-state wonder and where Trump has found deep and enthusiastic support for his incendiary nationalistic platform. Cruz is well positioned to contend with Trump for the top spot in those states because of his broad coalition of movement conservatives and evangelicals. 
 
 Republican exit polls reported by CNN showed how dominant Trump’s victory in New Hampshire had been. Trump won among people who said they had been “betrayed by Republican politicians” – but also among those who didn’t feel betrayed. 
 
 Trump won both men and women, won the married and the unmarried, won college graduates and non-graduates, won high earners and low earners, and won both those who called themselves “conservative” and among those who called themselves “moderate/liberal.” 
 
 The few sub-groups that Trump did not win included those who called themselves evangelical or born-again: Cruz won that group with 24 percent. But his victory in that group – a core part of Cruz’s support – came by just a single percentage point. In second place, with 23 percent, was Trump. Kasich won among voters who said they were “somewhat worried” about the economy, though Trump won the group that said they were “very worried.” Trump lost among the voters who believed “electability” was the most important quality in a candidate: they went for Rubio. 
 
 One striking statistic in the poll came from a question that asked voters about what should be done with undocumented immigrants who were already in the U.S. Trump has said he would deport all 12 million of them. It was no surprise, then, that Trump won among the voters who supported mass deportation. 
 
 But he also won among voters who said that deportation was the wrong choice. Among that group of voters – the 66 percent of Republicans who supported offering legal status to undocumented immigrants, the exact opposite of Trump’s plan – 22 percent supported Trump anyway. That was enough to tie Kasich for first place. 
 
 The exit polls reported by CNN showed that 66 percent of Republican primary voters supported another idea that Trump has praised: a temporary ban on Muslim foreigners entering the U.S. In that group, not surprisingly, Trump was the most popular candidate, with 42 percent support. 
 
 For Republicans, the campaign trail in the final push was like a game of political billiards — with attacks flying fast and in all directions, reflecting the jumbled field and the uncertain fates that await so many of the candidates. 
 
 Bush fired at Trump, Cruz, Kasich and Rubio. Christie savaged Rubio. Rubio smacked back. Trump, for his part, slammed Bush and Cruz. 
 
 Tuesday night, Bush told his supporters, “The pundits had it all figured out last Monday night when the Iowa caucuses were complete. They said the race was now a three-person race between two freshmen senators and a reality TV star. And while the reality TV star’s still doing well, it looks like you all have reset the race.” 
 
 Recalling the story of a veteran he met who had been wrongfully declared dead by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Bush said, “Just like he’s not dead, this campaign’s not dead – we’re going on to South Carolina.” 
 
 For the Republicans, the character of the race appeared to change over the weekend after a Saturday debate in which Rubio faltered in the face of stinging barbs from Christie. 
 
 In an uncharacteristically blunt fashion, Rubio on Tuesday night blamed himself for his poor showing in the primary. 
 
 “Our disappointment tonight is not on you -- it’s on me. I did not do well on Saturday night. So listen to this: that will never happen again,” he vowed. 
 
 Late Tuesday, Christie seemed sobered by his defeat – and contemplating an end to his campaign. Before Tuesday’s results were in, Christie had said he planned to campaign in South Carolina, extending his campaign to the next primary state. Now, he said, he would return to New Jersey, and watch for the final results from New Hampshire. 
 
 “That’s going to allow us to make a decision about how we move from here in this race. But there’s no reason to sit in a hotel in South Carolina to hear that,” Christie said. 
 
 While in New Jersey, he said, “We can actually get a change of clothes, which would be a nice thing.” 
 
 If Christie does drop out because of New Hampshire, that would mark the end of a long decline for one of the most talented retail politicians in the race. Christie had once been the front-runner in New Hampshire, way back in 2014, but he was un-done by a scandal from his own administration – in which aides allegedly caused a traffic jam on a major bridge in order to punish a local mayor who hadn’t endorsed Christie’s re-election. 
 
 And he was out-shone by Trump, who stole away the role that Christie had sought to play: the race’s brash straight-talker. 
 
 Eilperin and Fahrenthold reported from Washington. Jose A. DelReal in Portsmouth, Jenna Johnson, Sean Sullivan and John Wagner in Concord, Michael Kranish in Plaistow, Abby Phillip, Anne Gearan, Ed O’Keefe and Karen Tumulty in Manchester contributed to this report. ||||| Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reacts to the cheering crowd at his primary night rally Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) (Associated Press) 
 
 Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reacts to the cheering crowd at his primary night rally Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) (Associated Press) 
 
 MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest developments from the 2016 presidential campaign, with the focus Tuesday on the New Hampshire primary (all times local): 
 
 11:18 p.m. 
 
 Bernie Sanders will win at least 13 of the Democratic delegates in New Hampshire and Hillary Clinton will win at least nine. Two delegates haven't yet been allocated. 
 
 In the overall race for delegates, Clinton has 394, thanks in large part to endorsements from superdelegates — party officials who can support the candidate of their choice. 
 
 Sanders has 42 delegates. 
 
 It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president. 
 
 In the Republicans race, Donald Trump will win at least 10 delegates in New Hampshire and John Kasich will win at least three. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush will both win at least two, with six delegates still to be allocated. 
 
 In the overall race for delegates, Trump leads with 17, Cruz has 10, Marco Rubio has seven, Kasich has four and Bush has three. 
 
 It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. 
 
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 11:12 p.m. 
 
 John Kasich says the key to his second-place finish in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary was that the "light overcame the darkness" of American politics. 
 
 The Ohio governor tells supporters that his positive campaign overcame negative attacks funded with tens of millions of dollars. 
 
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 11:06 p.m. 
 
 Jeb Bush says New Hampshire voters have "reset" the Republican presidential race. 
 
 The former Florida governor — who's in a fight for third place with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — says he's campaign "is not dead" and that's he's looking forward to the upcoming contest in South Carolina. 
 
 Bush was betting big on New Hampshire to help him recover from his poor single-digit showing in the Iowa caucuses. 
 
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 10:58 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump may have captured the GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire and John Kasich came next, but Ted Cruz sees a different real winner of the contest. 
 
 The Texas senator — who won the leadoff Iowa caucuses but is fighting for third in New Hampshire — says it's the "conservative grassroots." 
 
 Cruz says he's proved the critics wrong for says a conservative couldn't do well in New Hampshire. 
 
 Now, he says he's focused on upcoming contests in South Carolina, Nevada and across the South in early March. 
 
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 10:46 p.m. 
 
 Marco Rubio says he's disappointed in his performance Tuesday in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary, and he's blaming himself. 
 
 And the Florida senator — who finished a surprising second in the leadoff Iowa caucuses — says he has a good idea why he's in a fight for third place with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Florida. Gov. Jeb Bush. 
 
 Rubio is pointing to his performance in the last debate before the primary. 
 
 He tells supporters: "I did not do well on Saturday night." 
 
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 10:40 p.m. 
 
 Exit polling in New Hampshire shows that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won the support of about 9 in 10 voters who thought honesty was important. 
 
 One of the questions asked of voters was which of the two candidates — Sanders or Hillary Clinton — is honest and trustworthy. 
 
 Half said they think only Sanders is, while about 40 percent said they both are. Few said only Clinton is. 
 
 Nearly all of those who said only Sanders is honest and trustworthy said he got their vote. 
 
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 10:35 p.m. 
 
 Republican Chris Christie says he's heading home to New Jersey to "take a deep breath" and take stock of his struggling presidential bid. 
 
 The New Jersey governor had banked on a strong finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, but he's on track to end up far off the pace despite holding more than 70 town halls events over the past few months. 
 
 It's a tough blow for a candidate whose campaign had trouble from the start about raising money and building support in a crowded field dominated by another brash East Coaster: businessman Donald Trump. 
 
 Christie tells supporters that he'll wait to see the final New Hampshire results before making a decision about the way ahead. 
 
 But he says he can do that best from home, and not a hotel room in South Carolina — the site of the next Republican contest. 
 
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 10:21 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump is basking in his victory in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire and says that America under his leadership will "start winning again." 
 
 Trump is telling supporters that he'll be the "greatest jobs president God ever created." 
 
 He's promising that if he's commander in chief, he'll "knock the hell" out of the Islamic State group and negotiate what he says would be better trade deals. 
 
 A Trump presidency, he says, would mean "nobody is going to mess with us." 
 
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 10 p.m. 
 
 She's back in the pack among Republicans in New Hampshire, but the fight isn't going out of Carly Fiorina. 
 
 The Republican presidential candidate tells supporters at a country club in Manchester that "I'm not going to sit down and be quiet, and neither are you." 
 
 She's taken the stage with her husband, Frank, by her side. And what's playing in the background? "I Won't Back Down," by rocker Tom Petty. 
 
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 9:55 p.m. 
 
 Jeb Bush's campaign doesn't think much of rival John Kasich's second-place showing in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. 
 
 Kasich finished behind Donald Trump. Bush — a former Florida governor — is in a close race with two senators — Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida — for third. 
 
 Bush spokesman Tim Miller says Kasich "ran a one-state campaign" in New Hampshire and doesn't have "a viable path" to the nomination. 
 
 The next Republican contest is in South Carolina later in February, and Miller says the Bush campaign feels "very confident about our position" in the state. 
 
 As for Kasich, Miller contends that the former congressman "doesn't have a constituency past New Hampshire." 
 
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 9:45 p.m. 
 
 Ohio Gov. John Kasich has finished second in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. 
 
 There's a tight race for third among Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. It's still too close to call right now. 
 
 Kasich emerged from the pack of candidates to finish behind billionaire businessman Donald Trump on Tuesday night. 
 
 Kasich's campaign manager says he expects an increased flow of contributions to the candidate's campaign after the strong showing. 
 
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 9:35 p.m. 
 
 He's won in New Hampshire and now Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders plans to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton over breakfast in New York City on Wednesday. 
 
 That's according to two people who were briefed on the meeting. They are telling The Associated Press that the get-together is set for the famed Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem. 
 
 They spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not yet been publicly released. 
 
 Sharpton isn't immediately responding to a request for comment. 
 
 — Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire in New York contributed to this report. 
 
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 9:29 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton is congratulating Bernie Sanders on his New Hampshire win on Tuesday night. 
 
 But for the former secretary of state, it's time to get back to the issues: campaign finance reform, equal pay for women, the lead-tainted drinking water in Flint, Michigan. 
 
 Clinton also wants younger voters to support her campaign as the race goes on. 
 
 She says she knows she has "some work to do particularly with young people." 
 
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 9:15 p.m. 
 
 The fight goes on for Hillary Clinton. 
 
 Even after losing to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Clinton is promising to take her fight for the nomination to the rest of the country. 
 
 And if she feels spurned by New Hampshire voters, she's not showing it to supporters in Hooksett, New Hampshire. 
 
 She tells them: "I still love New Hampshire, and I always will." 
 
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 9:05 p.m. 
 
 Exit polls are helping shed some light on the various strands of support among voters in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary. 
 
 Donald Trump is backed by voters looking for an outsider and those who made up their minds a while ago. 
 
 John Kasich does best with voters looking for a candidate with political experience — along with moderates, better educated voters and those who made their vote decision in the past few days. 
 
 Ted Cruz is supported by many voters who are very conservative and evangelical Christians. 
 
 Marco Rubio does best among voters for whom experience and electability is important. 
 
 Voters who value experience are also inclined to support Jeb Bush. 
 
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 8:50 p.m. 
 
 Thanks to his New Hampshire win, Donald Trump will take the lead in the race for delegates for the Republican National Convention. 
 
 It won't be much of a lead. 
 
 There are only 23 delegates at stake in New Hampshire's Republican primary, and they are awarded proportionally, based on the statewide vote. 
 
 Trump will win at least nine. The final tally depends on how many candidates get more than 10 percent of the vote, the threshold needed to qualify for delegates. 
 
 Trump started night trailing Ted Cruz by one delegate. 
 
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 8:45 p.m. 
 
 How did Bernie Sanders do it in New Hampshire? 
 
 According to exit polls, he won the Democratic presidential primary Tuesday by getting a majority of votes from both men and women, independents and voters under 45. 
 
 Rival Hillary Clinton is backed a majority of voters aged 65 and older and those with incomes over $200,000. 
 
 Independents make up nearly 4 in 10 voters in the primary, and Sanders is winning nearly three-quarters of their votes. 
 
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 8:34 p.m. 
 
 Gratitude for the Granite State — that's the word from Bernie Sanders. 
 
 After his New Hampshire victory, the Vermont senator has thanked his supporters with this tweet: "When we stand together, we win. Thank you, New Hampshire!" 
 
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 8:25 p.m. 
 
 A big victory for Donald Trump in New Hampshire, a big victory celebration for the billionaire businessman. 
 
 When word came just at 8 p.m. that Trump was declared the winner, his supporters at campaign headquarters in Manchester shouted his name and they waved foam fingers emblazoned with the phrase, "You're Hired." 
 
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 8:13 p.m. 
 
 Bernie Sanders' victory in New Hampshire means he's assured of a majority of the state's pledged delegates. 
 
 With 24 at stake, Sanders stands to gain at least 13. Hillary Clinton will receive at least seven. 
 
 Clinton remains ahead in the overall delegate count due to support from superdelegates — the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice. 
 
 Including superdelegates nationwide, Clinton has amassed at least 392 delegates and Sanders at least 42. 
 
 The magic number to clinch the nomination is 2,382. 
 
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 8:03 p.m. 
 
 The New Hampshire primary winners are Donald Trump on the Republican side and Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race. Each took the top spot after second-place finishes in the Iowa caucuses. 
 
 Trump's first victory of the 2016 White House race means he's no longer a political rookie but the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination. 
 
 And the win for Sanders completes his rise from presidential long shot to legitimate challenger for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton. 
 
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 7:50 p.m. 
 
 New Hampshire's secretary of state says voter turnout in Tuesday's presidential primary is likely to be slightly higher than in 2008. 
 
 Bill Gardner predicted several days ago that roughly 282,000 Republican ballots cast would be and 268,000 Democratic ballots cast. 
 
 He says his visits to various polling places Tuesday lead him to believe his predictions are on par. 
 
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 7:40 p.m. 
 
 The clock is ticking in New Hampshire: The final polls are set to close at 8 p.m. in the first-in-the-nation primary contest of the 2016 presidential election. 
 
 New Hampshire has 1.33 million residents. More than 870,000 are registered to vote. 
 
 Polls started opening at 7 a.m., except for a few communities that begin voting just after midnight. 
 
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 7:25 p.m. 
 
 Call them the late deciders. 
 
 Nearly half of the voters in Tuesday's Republican primary in New Hampshire are saying they made up their mind in the last week. On the Democratic side? More than half say they decided before that. 
 
 The findings are among some of the early results of the exit poll conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and the television networks. 
 
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 7:15 p.m. 
 
 What's at stake on the delegate front in the New Hampshire primary? 
 
 For Democrats, 24 delegates are up for grabs. On the GOP side, it's 23. 
 
 The GOP count after the Iowa caucuses: eight for Ted Cruz, and seven each for Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. 
 
 Hillary Clinton holds a big delegate lead, mainly due to on endorsements from superdelegates. Those are the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice. 
 
 Clinton has 385 delegates and Bernie Sanders has 29. 
 
 It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. 
 
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 7:05 p.m. 
 
 Move it along, Mr. Trump. And the entourage with you, too. 
 
 That's the message from the moderator at a New Hampshire polling site — the Webster Elementary School in Manchester. 
 
 Jim Townsend's in a huff over the commotion caused by Trump's visit — and the reporters, Secret Service members and Trump supporters blocking voters trying to get in and out of the polling place. 
 
 Here's how Townsend puts it: "Please, no one can get through to vote thanks to Mr. Trump. Let's move it along." 
 
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 6:55 p.m. 
 
 It's not clear yet whether New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary will break for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. But there's no doubt about where their next showdown will come — it's the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 20. 
 
 And now Nevada Democrats say the candidates will participate in a town-hall event on Las Vegas two days before those caucuses. 
 
 The state party chairwoman, Roberta Lange, says MSNBC and the Spanish-language television network Telemundo have agreed to host the event. 
 
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 6:35 p.m. 
 
 An outside group that's helping Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is spending more than $1.5 million on digital and media advertisements in South Carolina and Nevada — the next states on the 2016 election calendar. 
 
 The new expenditures are by Conservative Solutions PAC, a super political action committee that faces no contribution limits. 
 
 All but about $200,000 is for South Carolina. That's according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. 
 
 Conservative Solutions is the second-most-active super PAC in the presidential race so far. Only Right to Rise, which is boosting Republican Jeb Bush, has spent more on television and radio.
– Donald Trump won the first electoral victory of his life Tuesday night and he promised supporters there would be many more to come. "We are going to start winning again and we are going to win so much," he said at his victory party in New Hampshire, per Politico. "You are going to be so happy." Trump—who cruised to victory with around 34% of the vote—went on to repeat campaign promises to build a border wall, "make America great again," and be the "greatest jobs president that God ever created." He also slammed fellow New Hampshire winner Bernie Sanders, accusing him of wanting "to give away our country." Here's what some of the other candidates had to say: Marco Rubio finally admitted that his debate performance on Saturday was a disaster, the Washington Post reports. "Our disappointment tonight is not on you—it's on me," Rubio, who finished in fifth, told supporters. "I did not do well on Saturday night, so listen to this: That will never happen again." During his victory speech, Bernie Sanders praised the "yuge" voter turnout and said that what happened in New Hampshire "in terms of the enthusiastic and aroused electorate" will happen all over America, reports the Hill. "The government of our great country belongs to all the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACS," he said. In a fiery concession speech, Hillary Clinton vowed to "take this campaign to the entire country" and "fight for every vote in every state," reports Politico. "It's not whether you get knocked down that matters, it's whether you get back up," she said. Ted Cruz, claiming he was "effectively tied for third" in the New Hampshire race, congratulated Trump and John Kasich and thanked New Hampshire, telling supporters: "Your victory tonight has left the Washington cartel utterly terrified." After his second-place finish, Kasich told supporters that there was "magic in the air" and the "light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning," per the Boston Globe. "In this campaign, I've become convinced even more about what it takes to win a political campaign and what it takes for somebody to be a leader," he said. "It's not just what’s up here in the head, it's also what's deep in here in the heart."