--- title: Watch a Day on the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire description: Across New Hampshire, candidates are engaging in the kind of retail politics that is only possible in a small state. canonical: https://time.com/4210647/new-hampshire-primary-rubio-fiorina-cruz-sanders-christie/ author: Francesca Trianni article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-07T05:48:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T12:00:13.796Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch a Day on the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire og:description: Candidates are engaging in retail politics. og:url: https://time.com/4210647/new-hampshire-primary-rubio-fiorina-cruz-sanders-christie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20eee6b3ac61398/69887c788e06014e944647c5/hillary-onstage-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Day on the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire twitter:description: Candidates are engaging in retail politics. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20eee6b3ac61398/69887c788e06014e944647c5/hillary-onstage-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Day on the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire by [Francesca Trianni](https://time.com/author/francesca-trianni/) and [Diane Tsai](https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/) Feb 7, 2016 5:48 AM UTC  by [Francesca Trianni](https://time.com/author/francesca-trianni/) and [Diane Tsai](https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/) Feb 7, 2016 5:48 AM UTC It’s go time. Across New Hampshire, candidates are engaging in the kind of retail politics that is only possible in a small state: attending luncheons and speaking at town halls, shaking voters’ hands in restaurants, and taking hundreds of selfies. On Friday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio spent more than an hour shaking people’s hands in Derry, New Hampshire. Just 20 minutes away, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz joked about the “good old New England weather” after up to ten inches of snow blanketed the state. Earlier in the day, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina met a few dozen voters for coffee while Hillary Clinton ended a rally by dancing on stage with former Senate colleagues. TIME followed six presidential candidates—Carly Fiorina, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie—for 12 hours on the campaign trail. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4210647/new-hampshire-primary-rubio-fiorina-cruz-sanders-christie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4210647/new-hampshire-primary-rubio-fiorina-cruz-sanders-christie/"},"headline":"Watch a Day on the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire","datePublished":"2016-02-07T05:48:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T12:00:13.796Z","description":"Six candidates. Twelve hours. Hundreds of selfies. See what life is like on the trail","url":"https://time.com/4210647/new-hampshire-primary-rubio-fiorina-cruz-sanders-christie/","keywords":["new hampshire","Hillary Clinton","Chris Christie","Sen. Marco Rubio","Bernie Sanders","ted cruz","Elections 2016","Carly Fiorina"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20eee6b3ac61398/69887c788e06014e944647c5/hillary-onstage-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Francesca Trianni","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/francesca-trianni/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Diane Tsai","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/diane-tsai/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf20eee6b3ac61398/69887c788e06014e944647c5/hillary-onstage-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton","caption":"","creditText":"","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/new-hampshire/","name":"new hampshire"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4210647/new-hampshire-primary-rubio-fiorina-cruz-sanders-christie/","name":"Watch a Day on the Campaign Trail in New Hampshire"}}]}] ```