Concord, N.H., Feb 12, 2020 / 10:33 am
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) narrowly won Tuesday night's Democratic New Hampshire primary, with third-place Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) getting the support of frequent church-goers.
Overall, Sanders received 73,809 votes in the Granite State, almost 26% of the vote. Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was just 4,000 votes behind with more than 24% of the vote. The two continued their strong performance at last week's Iowa caucuses where Buttigieg narrowly beat out Sanders in the race for state delegate equivalents.
On Tuesday, Klobuchar surged into third place with 56,576 votes, almost 20% of the vote.
In distant fourth was Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with 26,434 votes, or 9.25%. Former vice president Joe Biden, viewed for months as the top front-runner in the Democratic field for 2020, failed to finish in the top three for the second straight week, after his fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucus. He received 24,734 votes on Tuesday.