from the state of New Hampshire.

They are clear, and they are authoritative

and they are a little bit complicated.

“Hello, America.”

“We are here to stay.”

“Our campaign is built for the long haul.”

“We’re going to Nevada.

We’re going to South Carolina.

We’re going to win those states as well.”

Bernie Sanders has won the state by a little bit.

Two other candidates who had quite a strong night —

Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.

Not such a good night for

Joe Biden or for Elizabeth Warren

or for anybody else.

“New Hampshire.”

“New Hampshire.”

“New Hampshire.”

“We’re here together.”

“New Hampshire.”

“You all up here in New Hampshire.”

After the debacle in Iowa, national attention

has focused even more intensely

on New Hampshire as the first real clean test

of political momentum in this race.

“People are still undecided.”

“Uh, Bernie.”

“Bernie Sanders, all the way.”

“Mayor Pete.”

“Amy Klobuchar.”

“Oh, Joe Biden.”

“I’ll just probably decide Tuesday, five minutes

before I go in to vote.”

New Hampshire is a classic swing state.

“Ronald Reagan is the winner in the state

of New Hampshire.”

“Bill Clinton won it.”

“It’s neck and neck.”

“New Hampshire goes to Obama.”

In 2016, Hillary Clinton prevailed over Donald Trump,

but by a tiny margin.

It’s a state that’s very much in play for 2020.

“Four more, Trump.

Four more years!”

New Hampshire might gauge whether a candidate is

able to appeal to certain other constituencies

they will need in the general election.

We have seen over the last week

a real rivalry emerge between Bernie Sanders and

Pete Buttigieg.

“Hot, fresh and vegan.

Get your Bernie-on-a-stick.”

New Hampshire is really home turf for Bernie Sanders.

He comes from right next door in Vermont.

And he also drew strong support,

as he did in 2016, from younger voters and more

liberal voters.

“Young voters want Bernie because he’s

fighting for their future.

He's not fighting for his future.

He’s in his future.”

[cheering]

Bernie Sanders came into New Hampshire claiming momentum

out of Iowa, based on his lead in the popular vote.

“Finally, the votes were counted in Iowa.

Took them a little while.

We won the vote by 6,000 votes.”

He has been somewhat more aggressive

with his primary opponents here …

“We don’t have a Super PAC.”

… talking about the difference between himself …

“We don’t want billionaires’ money.”

… and candidates in the race, like Pete Buttigieg,

who take money from billionaires

and other big donors.

“We are running a campaign for working people, funded

by working people.

And that is why we are going to win here

in New Hampshire and all over this country.”

[cheering]

The biggest thing this might mean for Bernie Sanders

is that he has clearly reasserted himself

as the dominant leader on the left wing

of the Democratic Party.

And then there’s Pete Buttigieg.

“Back in the Obama campaign, we called it ‘no drama Obama,’

and I haven’t come up with the right rhyme

for Buttigieg.”

[cheering]

Pete Buttigieg has claimed, among

the moderate candidates, a sense of momentum

in New Hampshire that other folks were not able to take.

“We can’t risk dividing Americans further.

The idea that you’ve either got to be for a revolution

or you got to be for the status quo leaves

most of us out.”

His message here has been pretty similar to his message

in Iowa, but really focused on the idea

that he’s the candidate who can win crossover support

in the general election.

“We need a politics that brings all of us

in because all of us need a new and better president.”

After finishing at the top in both Iowa and New Hampshire,

Buttigieg now has a tremendous opportunity

to put himself forward at the national level as the leader

of moderate Democrats.

Announcer: “Senator Amy Klobuchar!”

The word that Amy Klobuchar supporters are using

to describe what happened here is ‘Klomentum.’

She came to New Hampshire after a fifth-place finish

in Iowa without a whole lot of wind in her sails.

“It’s been funny suddenly seeing media

come to all of our events.”

[laughter]

Things just turned around for her dramatically.

If Klobuchar had not finished so strong in New Hampshire,

it might have been the end of her campaign.

“If you are tired of the extremes in our politics,

and you are tired of the noise and the nonsense,

you have a home with me.”

She gets the chance to fight onward to Nevada and

South Carolina and Super Tuesday.

I would not make any plans that

are based on knowing a Democratic nominee

anytime soon.

Well, I am going to Las Vegas next,

so I probably would have a chance to do that.