Bernie Sanders Wins New Hampshire Democratic Primary

New Hampshire voters, Mr. Buttigieg said, had concluded “a middle-class mayor and a veteran from the industrial Midwest was the right choice to take on this president, not in spite of that experience, but because of it.”

Without naming Mr. Sanders, he urged voters to reject a political approach that demanded revolution or nothing. Mr. Buttigieg also subtly underscored the generational gulf between him and Mr. Sanders, which could become a major theme of their rivalry. “I admired Mr. Sanders when I was a high school student,” Mr. Buttigieg said. “I respect him greatly to this day.”

Helping Mr. Sanders just as much is the decline of Ms. Warren, whose setback in New Hampshire may allow Mr. Sanders to further coalesce the party’s left-wing voters.

Taking the stage before even half the votes were counted, but with her dismal finish clear, Ms. Warren sought to cast herself as a candidate who could unify the party’s factions and warned against a “long bitter rehash” of the center-vs.-left tensions that plagued Democrats in 2016.

“Harsh tactics might work if you’re willing to burn down the party, in order to be the last man standing,” she said.

The night was even more damaging to Mr. Biden, who was already reeling from his fourth-place finish in Iowa. Anticipating a poor showing, Mr. Biden left New Hampshire on Tuesday and headed to South Carolina, a state he hopes can salvage his candidacy.

Trying to change the subject as Ms. Warren did, Mr. Biden appeared at a rally in Columbia, S.C., replete with a gospel choir, and sought to contrast the heavily white electorates in Iowa and New Hampshire with those of the more diverse Nevada and South Carolina, the next states to vote.

”We haven’t heard from the most committed constituency of the Democratic Party, the African-American community, and the fastest-growing segment of society, the Latino community,” he said.

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