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Trump Repeats Supporter's Vulgar Insult of Ted Cruz; Clinton & Sanders Battle for a Win in N.H.; Snow Hits N.H. as Primary Gets Underway. Aired 6-6:30a ET

Aired February 09, 2016 - 06:00   ET

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have to get rid of the Bushes of the world.

[05:58:21] JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's a long list of things that Donald Trump says that disparages people.

TRUMP: She said he's (EXPLETIVE DELETED). Let's go. Her.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are here in New Hampshire competing for the votes. At this point it's a turnout game.

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Everybody has got to play until you get punched in the face.

MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Is there a system by which you memorize answers? I mean, is that how you do it? Or is it...

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I know what I believe.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Join with us in making that political revolution.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: When I'm on a stage like this, I wish we weren't married. Then I could say what I really think.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're moving into a different phase of the campaign. It would be malpractice not to say, "OK, what worked? What can we do better?"

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Oh, my gosh.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Look at what.

CAMEROTA: Beautiful. CUOMO: What a vista to start this big day. We want to welcome

our viewers in the United States and around the world. I don't know what's going on with Michaela there, but she's in New York.

CAMEROTA: She thought that you were referring to her.

CUOMO: You are gorgeous every day, my love. Every day. Every day.

We are here at the focal point of American politics in New Hampshire, specifically the Waterworks Cafe in Manchester. Guess what? Polls are opening right now. Just after midnight, in fact, in the hinterlands. Three towns already casting a handful of ballots.

The big population centers going to open right now are pretty soon with this, the nation's first primary. The race will likely be decided by undecided voters. As many as 40 percent of people saying they still don't know who they're going to vote for, or even which party. Many as late as when they enter the booth.

So the totals right now, it's a three-way tie at the top of the Republican field. Let's take them through it.

CAMEROTA: OK. We have Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich. Then you have -- they're all tied, as you see. Bernie Sanders nearly doubling Hillary Clinton at this early hour. The numbers are miniscule, but still, 17 to 9 in Dixville Notch, giving an early boost to John Kasich there. And Bernie Sanders.

CUOMO: Many say we could call it right now.

CAMEROTA: In nearby Millsfield, Ted Cruz besting the GOP field with nine votes. Slow down, Millsfield. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton edging Sanders, 2-1.

Further south, in Hart's Location, another town for John Kasich, who of course, has made a big bet on New Hampshire to boost his campaign.

CUOMO: Paying early dividends.

CAMEROTA: For the Democrats, Bernie Sanders with 2 votes to Hillary Clinton with 7.

Meanwhile, the flurry of attacks and insults continuing in the final hours of campaigning, the latest with Donald Trump repeating a vulgar insult about Ted Cruz at an event. This as the Democrats turn up the heat as voters head to the polls.

So let's begin our primary coverage with CNN political reporter Sara Murray in Hudson, New Hampshire.

Sara, give us the latest.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn. This polling location will open in about an hour. But last

night, with just a couple hours to go, the race turned pretty vicious, as all these candidates tried to land their very last attacks.

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MURRAY (voice-over): Hours ahead of the first votes, name calling in the GOP reached a fever pitch.

TRUMP: She said, "He's a (EXPLETIVE DELETED)." That's Tara (ph). Tara (ph).

MURRAY: Donald Trump repeated a voter's vulgar jab at Ted Cruz Monday night. And the frontrunner was relentless in attacking Jeb Bush throughout the day.

TRUMP: We have to get rid of the Bushes of the world. Jeb is a lightweight.

(via phone) Jeb is having some kind of a breakdown, I think. And, you know, look, he's an embarrassment to his family.

MURRAY: Bush continuing the battle, trading insult for insult after tweeting at Trump, "You aren't just a loser. You are a liar and a whiner."

BUSH: Well, he is a whiner. I'm a joyful warrior.

Imagine a guy like Donald Trump, for example, being president of the United States during difficult times.

MURRAY: Now, in the final hours, candidates are vying to win over legions of undecided New Hampshire voters. Marco Rubio trying to bounce back after a debate gaffe, repeating the same phrase four times Saturday night. Something Chris Christie is capitalizing on.

CHRISTIE: You sit across the table from Vladimir Putin, you don't want to repeat the same thing four or five times over again.

MURRAY: But awkwardly, Rubio repeated himself yet again Monday night during a stump speech.

RUBIO: We know how hard it's become to instill our values in our kids, instead of the values they try to ram down our throats. It's become harder than ever to instill in your children the values they teach in our homes and our church, instead of the values that they try to ram down our throats.

MURRAY: This as Trump downplayed his wide lead in the final polls before today's primary.

TRUMP: I hear we have a lead. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. Who the hell knows what the lead is?

MURRAY: After admitting his ground game fell behind in Iowa, his campaign has been playing catchup. RUBIO: Hi, how are you doing?

MURRAY: On the snowy eve of the primary, Trump made a final push in his unconventional style.

TRUMP: If you're going to drive like a maniac, do it tomorrow after you vote. And I promise I will come and visit you in the hospital. I promise.

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MURRAY: Now, Donald Trump has been running strong in the state leading up to the primary. But the race to watch might be for second place. And one person to keep an eye on there is the Iowa winner, Ted Cruz. The Granite State is not quite as friendly to him as Iowa was. But they set up their camp crews here. And talking to volunteers, they say they're aiming for second place, but they would be happy with a strong third-place finish if that gives them momentum heading into South Carolina. So we'll see where he shakes out tonight.

Back to you, Alisyn and Chris.

CAMEROTA: OK, Sara, you've given us a lot to work with. Thank you.

So here this morning is the former moderator of "Meet the Press," David Gregory; CNN national political reporter, Maeve Reston; and CNN senior political analyst and editorial director of "The National Journal," Ron Brownstein. Ron was in the audience at last night's Trump rally.

So Ron, let me begin with you. Yes. So he used a vulgar term that we can't actually say...

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Right.

CAMEROTA: ... on morning television.

CUOMO: Is that true?

CAMEROTA: I don't think we should say it. I mean, I think it is so much worse than "shlonged," if I may.

CUOMO: You had no problem with that one.

CAMEROTA: Now I've warmed to that one.

BROWNSTEIN: That was a one-hour condensation or distillation of the Trump trap in this race. Him using that phrase was totally in the tenor of the hour in which he was really feeding the audience as much outrageousness as he could.

It's a reminder that one of the reasons -- we talked about this many times. One of the reasons his voters are drawn to them is because they feel he will break the boundaries; he will do whatever it takes to restore what they see as slipping away from them. [06:05:10] The problem, Alisyn, though, is the rest of the

electorate hears that, and they say, "Is that a president?"

CAMEROTA: But how did it go over in the room?

BROWNSTEIN: It went over great in the room. It went over great in the room, but it fit -- it fit with what was happening the whole -- he really was turning up the voltage. That's a very strong message on Mexico and undocumented immigrants. And it was just a reminder that he, I think either by inclination or calculation, he feels he has to feed that beast. And it's a big piece. And you look, it's a big piece of the electorate.

But there's no doubt I was at an event Sunday in Nashville, the more white-collar part of the party. The biggest hesitation they have about Donald Trump is, is this a guy who has the temperament to be president? He fed into all those stereotypes last night.

CUOMO: Look, an observation: The forgiveness comes in the form of their acceptance of what he says as candor, as reflecting how real people think and feel, maybe not at their best. But they don't feel at their best right now. And the reflection in the campaign is that we've been, even if it's the "shlong" word, I would have never said that before, he said. But he is changing what is OK in this race. The question is, how will other people respond?

The question for you, Maeve, with what happened to Marco Rubio. What impact did that have on undecided voters? What impact could that have on undecided voters?

MAEVE RESTON, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I have talked to a lot of people over the last couple of days who really were considering Marco Rubio, now looking at these other candidates. I think that's why we are seeing potentially a little bit of a late surge here for Kasich. Maybe not a huge surge. But more -- bigger crowds at Jeb Bush's events.

Clearly, watching Rubio just get demolished on that stage, has had a big impact. Mainly because, when we talk about these New Hampshire voters and how they change their mind at the last minute, a lot of times that gets down to electability, who they can actually envision in the Oval Office when they go in and make their decision.

And the other thing that I think is important to point out, though, with Trump's vulgarity last night, is that there is a huge, massive number of people here that I talked to the last couple days, who will do anything to make sure that he is not elected; does not have room to grow. There are a lot of Republicans that are going to turn out now today, just to make sure that he doesn't -- doesn't get in. And independents, too.

CAMEROTA: David, you have covered politics for a long time. How do you see this past 24 hours?

DAVID GREGORY, FORMER MODERATOR, "MEET THE PRESS": I think it's ridiculous. I mean, it is vulgar. And it's -- you know, this kind of discourse where you've got Jeb Bush and Donald Trump going back and forth about "You're a liar and a whiner, and a loser, and you're having a breakdown," what is this? I mean, is it home room or is it a presidential contest?

So it's more that -- I'm not trying to sound self-righteous about this whole thing. It's just that it doesn't do anything to advance, you know, the dialogue.

And to your point, Chris, I don't think the discourse -- I don't think Trump has changed any of the discourse. He is being him. He is in this kind of alternate reality. Ron was making this point. His unfavorables are so high in the party, about 60 percent. So even if he wins here today, from the party point of view, and a lot of principles in the party are so eager for this race to winnow down. Because Trump versus -- in a 10-person field is more formidable. Trump in a three-person field is far less so.

And, you know, still we have not seen Republicans go at him and his record and what he represents temperamentally, his lack of, you know, real substance.

You know, his ads here boil down to one point. In the television ad, it says, "Everything that we believe in is under assault." I mean, that is this very, you know...

CUOMO: Visceral.

GREGORY: ... visceral attempt to say that the -- that basically, Barack Obama's America is trying to destroy the country. It doesn't have -- it doesn't have room for you, because we're going to this new America that leaves you out.

So he lacks substance in any kind of policy proposals. And again, I think this is why there's so much anxiety about the fact that no one has been able to stand up to him. Calling him a loser and a whiner, that's not the kind of discourse. He can deal with that.

BROWNSTEIN: And yet, the most important thing, as we said yesterday, the most important thing that may happen here is the thing that doesn't happen. I mean, many Republicans were hoping that, out of Iowa, you would finally see the consolidation of that mainstream conservative, white-collar lane behind a single candidate. And as Maeve is saying, the odds are that it's going to not produce a decisive result for one of these.

CAMEROTA: New Hampshire, you think more people will head out of New Hampshire...

BROWNSTEIN: Than we thought.

CAMEROTA: ... than we expected?

GREGORY: There's three governors who are trying to show up here. I don't think all three.

CUOMO: No. You said two out of three. GREGORY: Maybe two out of three. Maybe just one out of three.

Because don't forget: once you leave here, if you're Christie or you're Kasich, you've got to go where there's a lot of hard money. Going into the south where you've got to travel. You've got to get up on the air with advertising. It's a different game. You can't just go hang out in one state.

BROWNSTEIN: Even one out of three, much less two out of three, even that is an advantage for Cruz and Trump, who have a distinct base. Cruz with the evangelicals, Trump with his blue-collar core. If that kind of center-right, mainstream conservative remains fragmented, Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush is not going to be the favorite going into South Carolina. It's going to be Cruz and Trump. As long as that happens, those two, many in the Republican leadership think, are the least electable in November, will have the upper hand.

[06:10:16] CAMEROTA: Maeve, the Cruz folks tweeted -- sent out a tweet after Donald Trump said this profanity. I'll just read it. "Donald Trump turning the campaign into the latest episode of a reality show. But let's not forget who whipped who in Iowa."

Sounds like Ted Cruz thought we were forgetting that, and that he was being eclipsed.

RESTON: He -- he has been eclipsed over the last week here. You know, he has got a small but strong constituency. He probably will do decently well tomorrow night.

But again, with Cruz, unlike Kasich and Christie, there is an apparatus going forward that really could propel him going on. So he doesn't -- he doesn't have as much pressure on him here as some of these other candidates.

CUOMO: The demographics shift back in his favor, also.

RESTON: Absolutely.

CUOMO: He doesn't start having a big evangelical base when he goes forward.

RESTON: Right.

CUOMO: He can take the policy. But we have to remember politicians always choose the personal over policy, David. If they have a chance to take a shot at each other, they'll do that after comparing tax plans any day.

CAMEROTA: Hold that thought.

GREGORY: ... lights up, but it's OK.

CAMEROTA: Hold that thought, because we -- panel, please stick around. We have to take a quick break.

Coming up in our 8 a.m. hour, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will join us live. CUOMO: All right. Remember, we've got two races going on here.

And on the Democratic side, it appears changes may be in store for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Why? She had that razor-thin victory in Iowa. But the word is the Clinton camp is not happy.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny has the inside scoop, live at a polling station in Manchester.

Jeff, it's going to be opening there soon. Changes in a campaign are a very precarious thing. What do you hear?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: No doubt about it. This polling location in the city of Manchester not far from where you are opened 10 minutes or so ago. A steady trickle came in. The polling places are behind me, as you can see.

But this is a copy of the sample Democratic ballot. So many more candidates on here, actually, than we talk about. But the two we're looking at, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, of course. And the margin of this victory tonight will determine how big that campaign shakeup may be.

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SANDERS: You look beautiful.

ZELENY (voice-over): It's your turn, New Hampshire.

H. CLINTON: Thank you, New Hampshire.

ZELENY: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders delivering last- minute pleas.

H. CLINTON: This is an important milestone in this campaign.

ZELENY: And 11th-hour pitches.

SANDERS: I'm here today to ask your support to join with us in making that political revolution. Thank you all very much.

ZELENY: The first-in-the-nation primary will set the tone for the rest of the campaign and help determine just how long that will be. A strong Sanders win will guarantee a long Democratic race ahead.

SANDERS: The eyes of the country, and a lot of the world, by the way, will be right here in New Hampshire.

ZELENY: The Clinton team bracing for a tough night and a possible campaign shakeup if things don't go well tonight.

H. CLINTON: We're going to take stock. But it's going to be the campaign that I've got.

ZELENY: CNN has learned much of the discontent is coming from allies of Bill Clinton, who believe the campaign underestimated Sanders. On election eve, the former president held his tongue, or tried

to.

B. CLINTON: Sometimes when I'm on a stage like this, I wish we weren't married. Then I could say what I really think.

ZELENY: The race hinges on New Hampshire's famously fickle independent voters and whether they will choose their heads or their hearts.

Beth Riley came to a Bernie Sanders rally.

BETH RILEY, VOTER: I really love Bernie. I mean, he says all the things that we would like to have this country be so much better.

ZELENY: But says she'll vote for Clinton.

RILEY: I'd love it if he could win. And I think I'm probably going to go with Hillary, because I think she can win.

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ZELENY: We met so many voters like Beth Riley, who really were deciding in the final days who they're going to support, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. The Clinton campaign pushing hard today throughout the state of New Hampshire, trying to get some more women voters over to her side. They believe if she narrows this Bernie Sanders lead here, she'll be able to make a more compelling case going forward.

But talk of that campaign shake-up is going to permeate everything, at least for insiders today. Never a good sign when you're only on the second stop of this long road to the White House -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Jeff. We'll analyze that more coming up. Thanks so much.

Meanwhile, a storm dumping snow over much of New Hampshire as voters head to the polls. How will it affect voter turnout? Senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns is live in Manchester, New Hampshire, for us with that part of the story.

Hi, Joe.

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn.

There was snow overnight here in New Hampshire. A winter weather advisory is lifting at this hour. Now, quite frankly, at least in this part of New Hampshire in Manchester, this is not a lot of snow for New Hampshire. In fact, they had much worse weather last winter.

[06:15:10] Still, the concern is about the potential for suppression of the vote, particularly in the morning when the temperatures are coldest here. The salt and sand trucks are out and will continue to clear the roads.

The question, of course, another big question is which candidates could be most affected by the weather here at this time. That would be candidates who are depending on voters who are less mobile or voters who are in a position that they're new, not familiar with the process.

So not expecting a big problem with the weather here in New Hampshire. But we'll see as the day progresses.

Alisyn, back to you.

CAMEROTA: All right, Joe, thanks so much for that.

Stay with CNN all day, because we have comprehensive coverage of the New Hampshire primary results starting at 4 p.m. Eastern.

CUOMO: Polls show Bernie Sanders with a commanding lead going into today's New Hampshire primary. The oldest candidate in the race has perhaps the greatest energy and most young people support, especially young women.

So two questions: Why isn't Clinton doing better with young women? And is there a down side to Sanders's big lead?

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[06:20:43] CUOMO: They laugh at snow in New Hampshire. And the voters are making their way to the polls, despite nature's fury. Actually, it's just snowing, but we don't think it will be that big an impediment...

CAMEROTA: You're scaring me.

CUOMO: ... as they're casting votes. It's this. It makes me feel like...

CAMEROTA: More powerful.

CUOMO: It's a broadcasting thing. Or that I should dance.

Anyway, this is the nation's first primary in the 2016 election. Let's take a look at the Democratic side.

Taking the average of major polls, what we call a poll of polls, we see Senator Sanders boasting a 61-point lead over Secretary Clinton.

Now, we're going to discuss this in a little bit of a different way. Let's bring in David Gregory, Ron Brownstein and Maeve Reston.

And different vibe. I mean this. Diminished expectations. Bernie is a huge underdog through most lenses. But when you have a big lead, everybody then looks at the result. We saw this play out in Iowa. What could it mean for Sanders if this is a nine-, even ten- point race and not more? GREGORY: Well, if she's successful at closing the race at all,

it will show perhaps some momentum, some resonance with voters. She's got to look at that younger demographic.

I think you also look, in a state like this, you look at counties in the state that may look like other places of the country. So you can extrapolate some meaning from a largely white state in the northeast to more battleground states.

So you look at some of the southern counties that are almost excerpts of -- of Boston, where you have more white-collar workers and such. And you see if she can get some momentum there.

But I think for Hillary Clinton, she's up against the fact that, despite whatever they thought about Bernie Sanders, he's created some juice here. And he had it in Iowa. He's got something going on. He is a -- he's a guy who has become cool in this race. He has become cool in politics. He's embodying a little bit of this hope and change. He's got some magic on the campaign trail. And she's got to deal with that. And it doesn't help when there are stories about her having a campaign shake-up and all the rest.

So she wants to -- she wants to show big here. There's a big percentage of people who are late deciders. And the best she hopes for here is to surprise. That's what New Hampshire does well, is it surprises.

BROWNSTEIN: I think the thing I watch the most closely is how she performs among Democrats. New Hampshire is unusual, in that about 45 percent of the voters on each side can be independent. That's more than almost any place else.

Bernie Sanders won big among independents in Iowa. He's certainly going to win big among independents here tonight. But he actually lost self-identified Democrats by almost 20 points. If she's in Iowa, if she's competitive again among self-identified Democrats, that would signal one of the hills he has to climb over. Eventually, it is hard to win a party's nomination unless you can get people in that party to vote for you. It's pretty much what happened to John McCain in 2000.

RESTON: And that's what they're looking ahead at, is South Carolina, Nevada. I mean, all this week as she's been working on her ground game here, they are airing ads, targeting some of the demographics in those states that will be really important to her going forward. They know that Bernie Sanders thinks he's going to do well in some of the caucuses coming up: Maine, Minnesota.

The Clinton team is totally focused on moving ahead in those states and looking beyond New Hampshire. They're hoping it won't be as embarrassing a gap tonight. But again, I think that we're all going to be watching the demographic and particularly women. What happens with Hillary and women.

CAMEROTA: David, let's just talk about what you touched on. And that is that there was this report about that there was going to be a campaign shakeup. That there is some soul searching going on...

GREGORY: Right.

CAMEROTA: ... inside the Clinton campaign. She then clarified, no, not a shakeup. More like a reordering. Let me play for you how she defined what they're going to do.

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H. CLINTON: I have no idea what they're talking about or who they're talking to. We're going to take stock, but it's going to be the campaign that I've got. I'm very confident in the people that I have. I'm very committed to them; they're committed to doing the best we can. We're going to take stock: what works, what doesn't work. We're moving into a different phase of the campaign.

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CAMEROTA: OK, take stock. So what does that mean?

GREGORY: You know, I think these kind of headlines are really unhelpful. When they went through something similar in 2008, when there's headlines that talk about the Clintons are unhappy with all these people around them, and with the advisers, you do have to say, as David Axelrod, who was, of course, the senior strategist for Barack Obama, what's the only consistent element in this story? And that is Hillary Clinton and her shortcomings as a campaigner, her inability to connect to keep parts of the Democratic electorate. And I think that's the case here.

[06:25:02] Look, the Clintons get a lot of scrutiny and a lot of inside-palace intrigue. And by the way, it's not usual for campaigns to have to take stock and to even shake up a little bit.

The difference, I think, between Clinton today as opposed to 2008, she is prepared for a longer slog, if need be. And I think, to the earlier point, I think one of the things that she's been saying to close her argument here to those young people, she says, "If you're not for me, if you're for my opponent, remember that I'm still for you." She's trying to look forward to a day when he's not in the race and she can consolidate. Whether these people love her, they're probably still going to be there. That's the calculation.

CUOMO: They fight. They move people around. They move people from out on the hustings to back in the house. But can you point to the last successful presidential election where you had people removed and replaced at the top of the order in the presidential campaign?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, they tend to layer, the Clintons, right? They didn't really fire in '08. They brought in Jeff Gerecht (ph), functionally to replace Mark Penn as their senior strategist.

Look, I agree with David. The common element here is Hillary Clinton. And what she is most comfortable with, her default is to get -- run toward being a pragmatist, resilient, tough, can take a punch. The problem is there's not a lot of lift in that, especially when

you're running against candidates like Obama in '08 and Sanders in '12 [SIC] who are essentially offering themselves as the leaders of a movement, of transformative change.

I mean, her sweet spot is basically saying, "I can move things forward. I can take a punch. I can advance things incrementally." She needs a broader -- broader message and a broader reach.

RESTON: You can feel that. You can feel that electricity at his rallies that you do not feel at her rallies. I mean, it's -- yes, there are crowds. And she gets -- tries to get them fired up. But it's nothing paired to the energy in the room that you see for Bernie Sanders.

BROWNSTEIN: Reagan 1980. Fired John Sears. Fired John Sears. It took a while. Reagan 1980.

CUOMO: And that's the point. It takes Ron Brownstein a while to figure it out.

CAMEROTA: He did it.

CUOMO: You know it's not a good thing to do.

CAMEROTA: Thank you, guys.

CUOMO: All right. So the nexus of changing who's around you and changing yourself is -- and what your message is when you're up against your opponent. And this Thursday night, Hillary Clinton is going to get that chance. She's going to face off with Bernie Sanders in the next debate in Wisconsin. That will be the "PBS Newshour" Democratic debate, simulcast here on CNN at 9 Eastern on Thursday night.

CAMEROTA: All right. New Hampshire voters now have the candidates' political futures in their hands. Who will have a ticket to move on after today's primary and which candidates could bow out? We'll explore all of that.

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