--- title: New Hampshire: What It Means for Hillary Clinton's Campaign description: She's likely to lose the Granite State, a turnaround from 2008. canonical: https://time.com/4213432/hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-loss/ author: Diane Tsai article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-09T18:41:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:41:07.690Z article:section: Politics og:title: See What New Hampshire Means for Clinton's Campaign og:description: She's likely to lose the Granite State, a turnaround from 2008. og:url: https://time.com/4213432/hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-loss/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0397bd76469b4071/69887cbc8e0601a87446482f/hillary-bill-chelsea.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1785 og:image:height: 1004 og:image:alt: Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See What New Hampshire Means for Clinton's Campaign twitter:description: She's likely to lose the Granite State, a turnaround from 2008. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0397bd76469b4071/69887cbc8e0601a87446482f/hillary-bill-chelsea.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See What New Hampshire Means for Clinton's Campaign > Sponsored content. 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This campaign, it’s likely to go the other way. After narrowly winning the Iowa caucuses, the former Secretary of State is poised to lose the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton has already said she plans to “take stock” of her campaign after Tuesday’s primary, though she is still favored to win in South Carolina, where a more diverse electorate means she’ll have the advantage going in. Watch this video to learn more about the state of Clinton’s campaign. ## Transcript You know, Senator Sanders and I share a lot of the same goals. And I think that has made for a very good contest in this campaign. But there are differences. It's important that you understand those differences. So the Clinton campaign has been preparing, for sometime, for a lose in New Hampshire I don't think that what is happening right now is totally unexpected. But I do think that it is pretty clear that the Hilary Clinton campaign and her surrogates and her allies are trying to figure out a way to just slow Bernie Sanders apparent momentum, because he's doing a lot better than anybody expected him to do a year ago. They're supporting me because they know me. They know my opponent too. That's absolutely true. But they're supporting me because they can imagine, with me as our president, we can actually get these things done. One of the things I think you'll see is Bill Clinton being sort of the attack dog. Up until this point he's been pretty silent. The harder this [ UNKNOWN ] hits The more I wish I were just a former President and just for a few months, not the spouse of the next one. [ LAUGH ] Listen, you know, I have to be careful what I say. [ LAUGH ] Bill Clinton's really beginning to attack Bernie and beginning to express a lot of frustration about what he feels is unfair to his wife. It bothers me to be in an election where debate is impossible because If you disagree, you're just part of the establishment. You know, he gets really angry at the idea that his wife is not a change agent, which is the argument that Bernie is making, because Bill says that she would obviously be the first female president and she has done enormous amounts of change throughout her life. So we're seeing now is a much more intense race than we saw even a month ago. Senator Sanders took about $ 200, 000 from Wall Street [ UNKNOWN ] Not directly but through the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. > One of the things their doing is trying to show that he is not anything different than a normal politician right. He's run his race so far as somebody whose above the fray. An idealist who does not change his views depending on The times, and the season, the Hillary Clinton campaign is trying to say, listen he changed his views on things like gun control. He has gone to high dollar Wall Street fundraisers before. There was nothing wrong with that. It hasn't change his view. Well, it didn't changed my view or my vote either. [ APPLAUSE ] He has presented himself as somebody who has been tough on crime in the past. Now he's switching to talk to a general election audience, so he's trying to point inconsistencies in his record in a way that they might not have been trying to do six months ago, because he's emerged as a real challenge. Hillary's big challenge will be to overcome the momentum loss of loosing in New Hampshire and a really slim victory in Iowa, and building. Actual big wins in Nevada, South Carolina, and then the Super Tuesday states. 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