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		</div><p>Republican Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders are focusing their presidential election efforts on the next state battle for votes after decisive wins in New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the Republican field dwindled by two with announcements that Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie were dropping out of the White House race.</p>
<p>All signs now point to a drawn-out battle in the state-by-state contests following billionaire businessman Mr Trump’s resounding victory in New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Florida senator Marco Rubio, under immense pressure to prove himself after a devastating fifth-place finish, was looking for a fight that could last for months or even spill into the first contested Republican national convention since 1976</p>
<p>“We very easily could be looking at May – or the convention,” Rubio campaign manager Terry Sullivan said.</p>
<p>If Mr Trump had Republicans on edge, Democrats were feeling no less queasy. Rejected in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton sought redemption in Nevada, where a more diverse group of voters awaited her and Bernie Sanders.</p>
<p>Mr Sanders, a Vermont senator and self-proclaimed democratic socialist, raised more than $5m in less than a day after his New Hampshire triumph. The contributions came mostly in small-dollar amounts, his campaign said, illustrating the resources he will have to fight Mrs Clinton to the bitter end.</p>
<p>Both Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders – the first Jew to win a presidential primary &#8211; worked to undercut each other among African-Americans and Hispanics with less than two weeks until the Democratic contests in Nevada and South Carolina.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton’s campaign deployed South Carolina state congressman Todd Rutherford to vouch for her support for minorities.</p>
<p>“Secretary Clinton has been involved in South Carolina for the last 40 years,” Mr Rutherford said. “Bernie Sanders has talked about these issues for the last 40 days.”</p>
<p>Mr Sanders, meanwhile, met the Rev Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist, at a Harlem restaurant.</p>
<p>Texas senator Ted Cruz, the conservative firebrand and victor in the lead-off Iowa caucuses, returned to the centre of the fracas after largely sitting out New Hampshire.</p>
<p>He drew contrasts with Mr Trump as he told a crowd of 500 in Myrtle Beach that Texans and South Carolinians were more alike than not.</p>
<p>“We love God, we’re gun owners, military veterans and we’re fed up with what’s happening in Washington,” he said.</p>
<p>Far behind in New Hampshire voting, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Ms Fiorina dropped out, and a spokeswoman for New Jersey governor Christie said his race was over, too. But a sizeeable field remained.</p>
<p>Almost all the Republicans have spent months building complex campaigns and blanketing airwaves in South Carolina, which heralds the start of the Republican campaign’s foray into the South.</p>
<p>After that primary on February 20, seven Southern states including Georgia and Virginia will anchor the Super Tuesday primaries on March 1, with a large number of delegates at stake.</p>
<p>Mr Rubio’s campaign has looked forward to South Carolina, yet his path grew far trickier after a fifth-place New Hampshire let-down, which terminated talk of Republican leaders quickly uniting behind him as the strongest alternative to “outsiders” Mr Trump and Mr Cruz.</p>
<p>His campaign’s suggestion that the race could veer a contested convention seemed to signal to mainstream Republicans that the party would be ill-served by allowing the Trump phenomenon to last much longer.</p>
<p>Republican officials have already had early discussions about such a July scenario, which could be triggered if no candidate secures a majority of delegates by convention time.</p>
<p>For governor John Kasich, whose second-place showing was New Hampshire’s primary stunner, the task was to convert new-found interest into support in a state ideologically distant from his native Ohio. With a minimal South Carolina operation compared to his rivals, Mr Kasich must work quickly.</p>
<p>Heading into the final two-week sprint, Mr Trump was leading in South Carolina among all demographic groups, an NBC/Marist/Wall Street Journal poll showed, with Mr Cruz and Mr Rubio a distant second and third.</p>
<p>Already, more than $32m has been spent on TV ads there, according to CMAG/Kantar Media data – much of it by Right to Rise, the political action committee (PAC) backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush.</p>
<p>Though he was placed fourth on Tuesday, Mr Bush was hoping that Mr Rubio’s slump would forestall his own removal from the race.</p>
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