“This is horrendous. We’re all scared,” said a Joe Biden adviser, speaking anonymously because the comments conflict with the brave public face the campaign is trying to broadcast
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Joe Biden limped away from New Hampshire with a devastating fifth place finish, zero delegates and the viability of his campaign in question.
The size and scope of the loss — he failed to crack double digits or win any sizable city or town — challenged the wisdom of Biden’s strategy of not competing hard in New Hampshire. Biden had downplayed expectations of doing well here, claiming New Hampshire favored politicians from neighboring states, like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But two politicians from the Midwest, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, finished ahead of Biden, undercutting his talking point.
“It’s all about South Carolina,” said Dick Harpootlian, a former state South Carolina Democratic Party chair in who is helping steer Biden’s efforts in that state. Biden told the crowd that 99.9 percent of African-Americans and 99.8 percent of Latinos had not yet cast a primary vote. “It ain’t over, man,” Biden said. “We’re just getting started.”The South Carolina event offered a stark contrast to what the Bidens left behind in New Hampshire. Here, the former vice president’s election night party was a somber event, marked by the absence of a candidate who left the state long before the race was called.
Reporters and Biden staffers seemed to outnumber voters at the party in a half-empty ballroom of the Radisson Hotel in Nashua. The small crowd greeted Biden with muted applause when he addressed them via a webcast from Columbia, where he later addressed a local crowd.This week, the Biden campaign insisted South Carolina would remain Biden’s firewall, regardless of his showing in New Hampshire.
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