42 minutes agoBernie Saunders wins in New Hampshire, second Pete Buttigig
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The candidate for president of the United States from the ranks of the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders, has announced victory in the early elections in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening. The other candidate, Pete Buttigigig, took second place. “Allow me to say that this victory here is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump”, said the senator of [...]
“Allow me to say that this victory here is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump”, Vermont Senator said. “It's not just about defeating Trump, it's about transforming this state”, the Democrat candidate added.
After 85 percent of the votes in New Hampshire were counted, Sanders gained 25.8 percent of them, and Buttigigig was not far away by 24.4 percent. The third place was candidate Amy Klobuchar.
The fourth place was Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, while former Vice President Joe Biden took fifth place, writes the Guardian”.
The outcome of the second race within the Democratic Party did not give a clear favour to the final winner and pointed to the supporters' divisions over the different ideology being submitted by candidates.
After more than a year of campaigning, hundreds of gatherings and millions of dollars spent, the New Hampshire elections came just days after the elections in Iowa, which ended in a row due to technical problems in reporting results.
