MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The latest on developments in the Iowa caucuses and the follow-up New Hampshire primary (all times local):
6:24 a.m.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott says Marco Rubio is the “one shot” Republicans have to win the presidency in November.
The Senate’s lone black member says in a statement Tuesday morning that he’s joining fellow South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Trey Gowdy in endorsing Rubio, who finished third in the leadoff Iowa caucuses.
New Hampshire votes next, followed by South Carolina.
The outstanding endorsement prize is Gov. Nikki Haley, who delivered the GOP’s national response to President Barack Obama’s state of the union address last month. Haley has not indicated when she might publicly take sides.
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6:23 a.m.
Sen. Ted Cruz says he won’t be another victim of the Iowa conservative’s curse.
Unlike past conservatives who’ve won Iowa contest and then fizzled, Cruz says he has the financial strength, broad appeal and grassroots support to keep up the momentum.
Cruz tells CNN: “I believe we have the national campaign and infrastructure to capitalize” on his win.
Cruz’s unexpected victory is drawing comparisons to past Iowa winners former Sen. Rick Santorum and former Gov. Mike Huckabee. Both failed to secure the nomination.
Like Huckabee and Santorum, Cruz’s win was fueled by Iowa’s large and active bloc of evangelical voters. He’s says he doesn’t think that means his appeal is limited. Cruz says he believes Americans are more conservative than the media portrays them. He says, “This is a center-right country. This is a country built on Judeo-Christian values.”
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6:20 a.m.
GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is pivoting from his strong finish in Iowa to taking aim at front runner Ted Cruz.
The Florida senator says on ABC’s “Good Morning America that Cruz’s career is “one of calculation.”
For example, Rubio says “criticizes New York values but has raised millions of dollars from New York City.”
Expect to hear more of that argument from Rubio, who came in a narrow third place to Cruz and billionaire Donald Trump in Tuesday’s leadoff caucuses.
Cruz has been willing to take a bundle of money from New Yorkers. His donors include Wall Street hedge fund mogul Robert Mercer, who contributed $11 million in April to a Cruz-aligned super PAC, according to federal filings.
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6:00 a.m.
Habitual overnight tweeter Donald Trump says…nothing on Twitter as of 6 a.m. EST.
The total Twitter silence from the prolific billionaire real estate magnate comes after Trump lost the Iowa caucuses Tuesday to Sen. Ted Cruz. He also came close to losing second place to Sen. Marco Rubio.
The final tweet before Trump went uncharacteristically silent came about 11 hours earlier and says: “Time to get out & caucus!”
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5:50 a.m.
A large crowd of supporters greeted Bernie Sanders in Bow, New Hampshire, at 5 a.m. after the Democratic presidential candidate arrived from Iowa.
Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in a virtual tie in the Iowa caucuses. He tells the crowd in New Hampshire that his campaign “astounded the world” and is going to “astound the world again” in New Hampshire. The state’s primary is next week.
Sanders says he can’t believe that people stood outside in the cold for about two hours waiting for him to arrive. He jokes, “Something is wrong with you guys!”
4:30 a.m.
Bernie Sanders says his razor-thin contest against Hillary Clinton in Iowa is giving his campaign a “kick-start.”
The Democratic presidential candidate says it shows the American people that “this is a campaign that can win.”
Sanders tells reporters traveling aboard his flight to New Hampshire early Tuesday that his message of addressing wealth inequality resonated with voters in Iowa. He predicts it will resonate in the early voting states of New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
Polls show the Vermont senator leading Clinton in New Hampshire. But Sanders isn’t saying whether he considers anything less than victory there a successful outcome. He says his campaign is in it “for the long haul” and predicts that “we are going to win some states, we are going to lose some states.”
