--- title: South Carolina Primary Kicks off After New Hampshire Results description: The presidential hopefuls quickly pivoted to South Carolina on Wednesday following blowout victories by outsider candidates in New Hampshire canonical: https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T20:46:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T18:39:13.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Campaign Moves to South Carolina With Establishment in Chaos og:description: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have the momentum og:url: https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2f342297431238/69887d04a988ca6b576b6892/rubio-south-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Marco Rubio og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Campaign Moves to South Carolina With Establishment in Chaos twitter:description: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have the momentum twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2f342297431238/69887d04a988ca6b576b6892/rubio-south-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Presidential Campaign Moves to South Carolina With Establishment in Chaos > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: See What's Next For John Kasich [Watch (HLS stream): See What's Next For John Kasich](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FQjzR1wT.m3u8) (2:11)  _Published 2016-02-10_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:39 PM UTCPublished: Feb 10, 2016 8:46 PM UTC  Marco Rubio arrives in Greer, en route to a campaign event in Spartanburg, SC on Feb. 10, 2016. Marco Rubio arrives in Greer, en route to a campaign event in Spartanburg, SC on Feb. 10, 2016.Jacquelyn Martin—AP  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:39 PM UTCPublished: Feb 10, 2016 8:46 PM UTC The presidential hopefuls quickly [pivoted to South Carolina](http://time.com/4215240/john-kasich-new-hampshire-south-carolina/) on Wednesday following [blowout victories](http://time.com/4215052/new-hampshire-election-donald-trump-john-kasich/) by [outsider candidates](http://time.com/4215117/new-hampshire-primary-results-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-fight/) in New Hampshire, with the insurgents riding high, Establishment-friendly candidates [looking to regroup](http://time.com/4215977/marco-rubio-chris-christie-debate/) — and [two](http://time.com/4215559/chris-christie-drops-out-new-hampshire-primary-results/) [candidates](http://time.com/4216109/carly-fiorina-drops-out-new-hampshire-primary-results/) calling it quits. Republicans started to fight on new ground as the race shifted from the relatively moderate, secular voters of New Hampshire to the more conservative, religious electorate of South Carolina. New Hampshire’s results, in which [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4215064/new-hampshire-donald-trump-victory-speech/) won big, [John Kasich](http://time.com/4215119/john-kasich-2016-election/) came in second and a cluster of Establishment rivals to Kasich followed him, did little to bring clarity to the fractured field. But Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush — the Establishment-friendly rivals to Kasich best positioned to succeed in South Carolina — got an early boost following disappointing New Hampshire finishes with the departures of two candidates from the race. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina [announced she was ending her campaign](http://time.com/4216109/carly-fiorina-drops-out-new-hampshire-primary-results/), and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie [exited the race later Wednesday](http://time.com/4215559/chris-christie-drops-out-new-hampshire-primary-results/). Kasich, whose moderate profile will prove a tougher sell in the South, said he still expects to do well in South Carolina, where his campaign will dedicate its energy in the next few days. “A good performance in New Hampshire will give me the name identification, the resources we need, and it’s upward and onward,” he said [Wednesday on CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/new-hampshire-primary-results/). “And we can chew gum and walk at the same time,” Kasich said, adding that he plans to spend a lot of time in Michigan too — whose March primary awards in delegates on a winner-take-all basis and could prove fertile ground for the Ohio governor. Ted Cruz, the winner of the Iowa caucuses who continues to argue he’s the only Republican candidate who can defeat Trump, opened fire on the businessman in a [new ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onUaRyvfv1A) that accused him of pretending to be a Republican. Meanwhile, Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton fought over black and Latino voters — critical blocs as the race moves from the mostly white electorates of Iowa and New Hampshire to more diverse settings. Clinton has long held an advantage with these voters. But Sanders began an effort to chip away at that edge Wednesday, meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton in New York City and picking up the support of _Atlantic_ writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, a prominent voice on racial and social-justice issues. In televised remarks with Sharpton, Sanders said he has the agenda to rally the population of Latino voters in Nevada and black voters in South Carolina. “Once the word gets out, who I am, what I stand for, we’re going to do just fine,” Sanders said. And Coates raised concerns about Clinton’s background. “I’m very, very concerned about Senator Clinton’s record,” Coates said in an [interview with Democracy Now](http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/10/ta%5Fnehisi%5Fcoates%5Fis%5Fvoting%5Ffor). “I’m very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country’s history.”  Final New Hampshire Primary results ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/"},"headline":"Presidential Campaign Moves to South Carolina With Establishment in Chaos","datePublished":"2016-02-10T20:46:37.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T18:39:13.000Z","description":"Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have the momentum","url":"https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2f342297431238/69887d04a988ca6b576b6892/rubio-south-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2f342297431238/69887d04a988ca6b576b6892/rubio-south-carolina.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Marco Rubio","caption":"Marco Rubio","creditText":"Jacquelyn Martin—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/","name":"Presidential Campaign Moves to South Carolina With Establishment in Chaos"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See What's Next For John Kasich","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/FQjzR1wT/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-02-10T09:07:09.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FQjzR1wT.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/","duration":"PT2M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4215908/south-carolina-primary-new-hampshire-results-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```