Reportable after 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Too early to call. On the democratic side, nbc iowa is calling this race, too early to call, based on very early entrance polls. Theres an indication of a clinton lead in this race. Rachel. This is based on entrance poll data. Theres still very little entrance poll data. Obviously, nbc news makes these characterizations base ed on ve careful analysis of the data th exists. Theres no reason to extrapolate more than we ought to. Again, the characterization by nbc news is its too early to call and that there is an indication of a Hillary Clinton lead. If that sounds familiar to you, its because at this time after the caucus doors closed in 2008, there was also an indication of a Hillary Clinton lead. At that point, looking at that early entrance poll data in 2008, we all know that she went on not only not to win iowa in 2008. She didnt come in second in iowa in 2008. She came in third to both barack obama and john edwards. Chuck todd is with us from de
A lot are being harassed online and at our events. They are being treated badly. What began as a little rebellion has emerged and grown into a full fledged middle revolution. New hampshire tonight has made bill clinton the comeback kid. When all in starts right now. Good evening from manchester, New Hampshire in the heart of the political world. At midnight, just four hours from now, the first polling locations open and the voting officially begins in New Hampshires first in the nation primary. All signs suggest that donald trump having survived his second place finish in iowa and rumors of his demise is poised for his first big victory. The most recent polling shows him with commanding lead, almost 16 points ahead of the closest challenger, marco rubio. The last one before New Hampshire voters head to the polls, trump is reverting to some of it greatest hits to close the deal. On the campaign trail hes been lashing out at the candidate who poses no electoral threat. The perfect foil f
Nearest opponents. The new york billionaire gets 34 . 21 points ahead of ted cruz and marco rubio, who are tied in second. Close behind, very close, are john kasich and jeb bush. 10 . Earlier today, i interviewed donald trump, i started by asking about that circuit of firing squad if you will we saw among the establishment candidates, which allowed trump to stay out of the scrum. Well, i didnt know what happened exactly. I was just sort of standing there watching everybody go wild. I was very happy about it. Thats okay with me. What did you make of marco rubio doing an imitation from the blade runner . He just started repeating himself. Six teams, the whole speech parts. What was it . Memory lapse . I dont know what it was. I was standing right there. Hes a nice guy. Hes been very nice to me. I heard it once, i heard it a second time, then a third. I said, i think its the exact same it isnt as if you re played it. I wondered if he was going do it once more. Let me ask you about talk to
Supposed to start at noon local time. There was supposed to be a Candidate Press Conference Ahead of time. Even with the incredibly tight schedules that the campaigns and candidates have to run, the Cruz Campaign had to blow up its schedule and keep all thoeds those people waiting. All the people are waiting. All the reporters are waiting for the press conference. Everything got pushed. Everything got left waiting because the candidate and a bunch of his top staffers were holed up in the parking lot of the ymca dealing with a crisis or causing a crisis. That was going on at the ymca 15 miles away. A control room in mid town manhattan was dialed in for ted Cruz Campaign manager. Hes a nice guy. Hes the only person that would give us the time of day. He wouldnt always give us a comment, but he was always nice about it. While this ymca parking lot huddle was under way this las vegas, National Campaign spokesman nick tyler was dialed in to do a live interview with kate snow. Minutes before
And the risk for cruz is that as we have seen all along is when you start clinging mud with donald trump you get dirty. You saw that with marco rubio. A different level of attack but something that cruz has to worry about. Its also a risk of going out and trying to kill this National Inquirer story which is unsubstantiated tabloid report but by talking about it, elevated into the political discourse so its not clear how this plays out but i dont think its a clean victory for cruz by bringing it up and trying to blame it on trump. One of the things that we learned about donald trump is that he is not going to be a candidate that is going to pivot toward the general election and try to look president ial in the tra tigsal sense. Theres been two moments where he had an opportunity i think to stand up and look president ial, the violence in chicago after one of his rallies and this moment where the super pact put out this web add. They spent like 300 on it. This was a moment where he could