Voting is underway in New Hampshire, and we’re not expecting any of the chaos that we saw in Iowa last week. They’re not introducing any new technology here, fingers crossed the big hope is that they managed to drastically whittle down the number of candidates from the five leading candidates still in the race.
That is unusual even at these early stages of the Democratic race. Incidentally, one of those candidates, the former vice president Joe Biden who was at one step, was slated even to win here, has already packed up his bags, and gone home. So sure that he is going to fare badly this evening. That is, of course, terrible news for him, but it’s great news for Donald Trump who sees the demise of strong candidates like Mr. Biden and the rise potentially of more left-wing candidates like the senator Bernie Sanders as playing straight into his hands, and that encapsulates the agony for the Democrats. The idea that they’re trying to unify around is a single candidate who can be positioned to beat Donald Trump in November.
When it comes to picking a candidate to beat Donald Trump, do the people of New Hampshire vote with their hearts or with their heads. Last week’s voting debacle in Iowa didn’t deliver an overwhelming winner. At least five candidates are still competing for that leading-edge, but one man is gaining surprise traction, Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg, a 38-year-old former mayor from Indiana, who was unheard of here a year ago, is now pulling ahead in the polls. He upended the Democratic norms to squeak a shock victory in Iowa narrowly. He’s now hoping his message of generational change will make him the undisputed winner here.
Pete Buttigieg hopes with a presidential win so big that we not only bring an end to the Trump presidency, but we put trumpism in the dustbin of history with it. His downside is that many people need to overcome the perception he’s weak among African American voters and that the US isn’t ready to elect a gay man as president.
The voting expected to close here and across New Hampshire, around 8 PM. A winner should be announced sometime by 10 or 11. There are those candidates there, but there is one more yet to come. The billionaire, Former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. What effect might he have? That’s right, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg hadn’t taken part either here or in Iowa last week, but he is strangely managing to poll in the latest polls at least say about 3rd nationally, and that’s because he’s spending hundreds of millions in heavy-hitting advertising campaigns. The first time he will appear on voters ballots though will be in California where he is expecting and hoping very much to shake up the race and go head to head with of course for the other billionaire in this race Donald Trump
Hold on tight!