Sanders is ahead of Biden: who will become an opponent of trump in the presidential election of 2020

Former US Vice President Joe Biden, considered the favorite of the presidential race of representatives of the Democratic Party, lost the second primary election, losing to independent Senator Bernie Sanders and former Mayor Pete Buttigic. Will they be able to compete with US President Donald Trump? Found out the publication with the BBC.

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The victor of the evening in New Hampshire, independent senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders, called the voting results “the beginning of the end for Trump.”

In total, about 280 thousand Democrats voted in New Hampshire, and 26% of the votes went to 78-year-old Sanders, a staunch left-wing politician.

However, his closest pursuer, 38-year-old Pete Buttidzic, who holds a more centrist view, bypassed only 1,6%, which is about 4300 votes.

The results of the primary elections in New Hampshire, which ended on the evening of Tuesday, February 11, led observers in the United States to admit that Sanders could become a Democratic candidate for president.

“During the 2016 campaign, even Democrats considered him too left-wing and a radical candidate,” says political scientist and professor at Stony Brook University Jonathan Sanders. “But it appears that Biden has made too many mistakes, and, as was the case with Hillary Clinton, even the most ardent supporters of the Democratic Party do not like him.”

In the US, Bernie Sanders is indeed considered a socialist. His opponents constantly remind us that in his youth, the future senator joined the youth division of the Socialist Party of America, and in the late 1980s he spent 10 days traveling around the Soviet Union, spending his “honeymoon” in this country.

By midnight local time, the results were announced from 90% of polling stations where representatives of the Democratic Party voted. According to official figures, the independent senator received 26% of the vote, only slightly ahead of the former mayor of South Bend in Indiana Pete Buttidzhicha. Minnesota Senator Emmy Klobushar was third with nearly 20% of the vote.

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A few minutes before the announcement of the voting results, speaking to his supporters in the state of New Hampshire, Sanders announced that he would become the candidate for the presidency from the Democratic Party.

“We are winning,” he said. “That’s how the people of Iowa voted, and if we win here today, we’ll go to Nevada, South Carolina, and we’ll win there too.”

Voting results in New Hampshire forced two presidential candidates to declare their refusal to participate in the election race. This was officially reported by entrepreneur Andrew Young and Senator from Colorado Michael Bennet. Thus, only nine representatives of the Democratic Party will participate in the next primary elections.

The success of Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, Democrat supporters in the United States regarded as a victory of representatives of the extreme left wing in the party. Young people voted for the independent senator, as well as representatives of the African American and Spanish communities in the United States.

Democrats shift focus to Nevada and South Carolina

These states are more diverse in terms of demography, which may not produce the same results in the primaries as in Iowa and New Hampshire. "Voice of America".

Democrats fighting for the right to challenge President Donald Trump in the November elections shifted their focus to Nevada and South Carolina after Bernie Sanders secured his favorite status by winning the primaries in New Hampshire by a slight margin from Pete Buttigic.

While Sanders, a progressive senator from neighboring Vermont, and Buttijic, the moderate former mayor of South Bend in Indiana, took first and second places in New Hampshire, the vote also showed growing support for the Minnesota centrist senator Amy Klobushar, who finished third .

Two Democrats, whose prospects have become more obscure, Massachusetts progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren and former vice president Joe Biden, who was once the race's favorite, took fourth and fifth places in New Hampshire, which raised new questions about the viability of their candidacy.

In New Hampshire, Sanders received 26% of the vote, buttidzhich - 24. Klobushar supported 20%, Warren - 9 and Biden - 8.

The party's office in New Hampshire reported that 294 thousand voters took part in the vote, breaking the record set in 2008, when historic participation in the election of Barack Obama inspired the country and 288 thousand people came to the primaries.

Commenting on the high turnout, Sanders in a statement on Wednesday said: “Our campaign managed to reach out to workers, youth, non-white communities and those who believe in a government of compassion and justice. This is the coalition that wins the election. ”

But many Democrats from the traditional movement in the party are worried that the irreconcilably liberal Sanders will lose in the confrontation with Trump.

The following states in the schedule of primaries and caucuses are more diverse demographically than the predominantly white and rural Iowa and New Hampshire.

The next vote will be held February 22 in Nevada, where more than a quarter of the population are Hispanic. Then, in a week, the turn of South Carolina will come, where about a quarter of the population are African-Americans.

Buttijic said on Wednesday that his good results in Iowa and New Hampshire show he's picking up pace.

His headquarters said he would double the number of organizational staff in Nevada to 100.

Buttigic also launched a television commercial in the state that emphasized his healthcare offerings. They imply access to the Medicare government health care program, but also allow those who wish to maintain their private insurance coverage.

Sanders proposes replacing private health insurance with a government plan that implies universal access to free health care, based on the Medicare senior American health plan.

“I think we will get a completely new picture from black and Hispanic voters, because they bet a lot on the fact that we will defeat Donald Trump, because they will be among those who will lose the most if they have to survive another term of the current President, ”Buttijic said.

The circle of Democratic candidates after New Hampshire was reduced to eight. Former Massachusetts governor, 63-year-old Deval Patrick, has stopped the campaign.

Can Bernie Sanders get to the end?

Joe Biden, the only candidate ahead of Bernie Sanders in national polls, has lost ground.

Pete Buttigic confidently took second place, but it is not yet clear whether he will expect the same success outside the first two states voted.

His closest rival in the left liberal wing, Elizabeth Warren, has yet to prove that she can come close to Sanders. The success of Amy Klobushar suggests that she will always be somewhere nearby, using moderate support.

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In 2016, Sanders ran into the election wall just after New Hampshire. Now, given the large amount of money the organizers of his nationwide campaign have tested in battle and the divided opposition, Sanders’s forward path now seems the most striking, although success is not guaranteed.

He may be the left-most candidate of all whom the Democrats have nominated for the presidency since George McGovern. And among the party establishment, there are many more who, with bated breath, recalls how Richard Nixon defeated him in 1972.

Former South Band mayor Pete Buttidzhich, whom opponents often accuse of lack of experience in big politics, in response to the victory of Senator Sanders announced that he will not be able to compete with Donald Trump. According to all opinion polls, it is the ability of the Democratic Party that the ability to challenge Trump is considered the main quality for a potential presidential candidate.

“We can't defeat the most controversial president in modern American history by voting for a man who doesn't have the majority support,” he told supporters in Nasha, New Hampshire. “A political position that denies any oppositional view will lead to the re-election of Donald Trump.”

Bernie Sanders really adheres to radical, from the point of view of American voters, positions. He advocates free medical care for all, the abolition of paid higher education, the legalization of marijuana use in all states, and tax increases for the richest Americans.

Loser of the vote, Joe Biden, who was considered a favorite in the fight for nomination before the pre-election, announced that he did not intend to give up. Even before the announcement of the voting results in New Hampshire, he left the state and met with his supporters in South Carolina. According to Biden, a defeat in the first preliminary election will not affect his chances during the US presidential election.

“It’s very important that Iowa and Nevada have already spoken,” Biden said, confusing New Hampshire with Nevada. “But look, we need to hear what everyone thinks, from Nevada to South Carolina to Super Tuesday and so on.” Then we can all make a decision."

Super Tuesday is the day in the United States when primaries will be held in the largest number of states. This year it will take place in 15 states of America. Traditionally, the most likely candidate for the presidency from one of the parties is determined based on the voting results. It looks like the former leader of the race, ex-Vice President Joe Biden, will no longer be so.

At the same time, analysts without undue optimism assess the chances of the current winners - Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigic - to succeed in the presidential race.

“Both represent too different factions of the Democratic Party,” says Jonathan Sanders. “Sanders has the support of young people and far-left Democrats and is unlikely to gain support in the South and Midwest, and the openly gay Buttigieg is unpopular in conservative states.”

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