Donald Trump set for victory in New Hampshire primaries

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump appears to be heading for his first victory in the New Hampshire primary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democrat hopeful Bernie Sanders is cruising to a likely win over Hillary Clinton in what has become an unexpectedly competitive race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As snowfall brought yet more uncertainty to the first-in-the-nation race&&num;8217&semi;s final hours&comma; Mrs Clinton tried to move past talk of a shake-up in her campaign and controversy over comments by supporters that women should feel obliged to vote for her to become America&&num;8217&semi;s first woman president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Campaigning across the north-eastern state with her husband&comma; former US president Bill Clinton&comma; and daughter Chelsea&comma; she worked to flip Mr Sanders&&num;8217&semi; favoured critique against her by claiming that he too had taken money from Wall Street &&num;8211&semi; if only indirectly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The New Hampshire primary traditionally plays a pivotal role by providing momentum to the winners heading into the next contests in South Carolina and Nevada&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those candidates who fare poorly could see donations dry up and face pressure to withdraw from the race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the last 10 elections&comma; the winner of the Republican primary went on to become the eventual nominee eight times&semi; on the Democratic side&comma; seven winners went on to become nominees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Billionaire businessman Mr Trump launched the harshest attacks&comma; not just against Texas senator Ted Cruz who had bested him in Iowa&comma; but also against Jeb Bush&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former Florida governor is one of three Republicans hoping that Florida senator Marco Rubio&&num;8217&semi;s recent stumbles have opened a fresh path for one of them to emerge as the more mainstream alternative to Mr Trump and Mr Cruz&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Jeb is having some kind of a breakdown&comma; I think&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Trump told CNN&comma; calling Mr Bush&comma; the son and brother of presidents&comma; a spoiled child and an embarrassment to his family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think it&&num;8217&semi;s a very sad situation that&&num;8217&semi;s taking place&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The enmity was mutual&period; Vying for votes in Nashua&comma; Mr Bush described Mr Trump variably as a loser&comma; a liar&comma; a whiner and the worst choice for president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He attacked what he said was Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s proclivity for &&num;8220&semi;insulting women&comma; castigating Hispanics&comma; ridiculing the disabled and calling American PoWs losers&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump also had a shot at Mr Cruz during a massive rally in Manchester last night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When an audience member shouted out an insult directed at Mr Cruz &&num;8211&semi; a vulgar term for &&num;8220&semi;coward&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Mr Trump repeated the term and jokingly reprimanded the woman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler responded via email&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s not forget who whipped who in Iowa&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still&comma; Mr Trump was running ahead in pre-primary polls&comma; as was Mr Sanders on the Democratic side as candidates race to collect delegates for the parties&&num;8217&semi; national nominating conventions in July&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;donaldTrumpMakeAmericaGreat&lowbar;large&period;jpg" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-85541"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;donaldTrumpMakeAmericaGreat&lowbar;large&period;jpg" alt&equals;"donaldTrumpMakeAmericaGreat&lowbar;large" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"alignleft size-full wp-image-85541" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not so long ago&comma; Republicans saw New Hampshire as the proving ground that would thin out their unwieldy field of candidates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Rubio&&num;8217&semi;s surge into third place in Iowa a week ago raised the prospect that voters in New Hampshire would anoint him over Mr Bush&comma; New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Ohio governor John Kasich&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet Mr Rubio faced fresh questions about his readiness and his ability to defeat the Democratic nominee after Saturday&&num;8217&semi;s debate&comma; when he was mocked for reciting rote talking points about President Barack Obama over and over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Growing doubts about Mr Rubio seemed to portend a fight for delegates to the party&&num;8217&semi;s national convention that could extend for weeks or months &&num;8211&semi; to the dismay of Republican Party leaders hoping for a quick consolidation behind anyone but Mr Cruz or Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;bernieSandersBelieve&lowbar;large&period;jpg" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-85544"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;bernieSandersBelieve&lowbar;large&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bernieSandersBelieve&lowbar;large" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"alignleft size-full wp-image-85544" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democrats are already resigned to the likelihood of a protracted primary contest following Mr Sanders&&num;8217&semi; strong performance in Iowa&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sensing Mr Rubio&&num;8217&semi;s vulnerability&comma; nearly everyone seemed to be on the attack&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Bush&&num;8217&semi;s campaign debuted a new advert questioning Mr Kasich&&num;8217&semi;s conservative credentials&comma; while an outside group backing Mr Rubio ran an ad assailing Mr Bush&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Christie and Mr Bush both piled on Mr Rubio&comma; claiming he had not been tested the way governors had&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the week since Mrs Clinton eked out a win in the Iowa caucuses&comma; her campaign has worked aggressively to lower expectations for New Hampshire&comma; where Mr Sanders has maintained a sizeable lead despite Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s victory there eight years ago against then Illinois senator Barack Obama&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr Sanders&comma; a Vermont senator&comma; is well known to voters in neighbouring New Hampshire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wary of upsetting a race trending his way&comma; Mr Sanders stuck to core campaign themes as he addressed cheering supporters in Nashua&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In recent days&comma; Bill Clinton has accused some Sanders supporters of waging &&num;8220&semi;sexist&&num;8221&semi; attacks&comma; and feminist Gloria Steinem and former secretary of state Madeleine Albright have criticised women who are not supporting Mrs Clinton&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Yet Mr Sanders passed up all thatyesterday&comma; instead telling supporters in Nashua&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We have come a long way in the last nine months&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But his campaign did take issue with Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s claim that Mr Sanders benefited from Wall Street money donated to Senate Democrats&&num;8217&semi; campaign arm&comma; with campaign manager Jeff Weaver arguing it &&num;8220&semi;suggests the kind of disarray that the Clinton campaign finds itself in today&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2689c47333">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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