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New Hampshire delivered big wins to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders last week, as the Democratic race heads west to Nevada, while Republicans descend on South Carolina for contests on Feb. 20. More news from the world of politics:
BERNIE SANDERS IS NO FAN OF HENRY KISSINGER’S
At Thursday’s Democratic debate in Milwaukee, Sanders sounded off on a former secretary of State’s “destructive” diplomatic record. And not Hillary Clinton’s. The Vermont senator took aim at Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy hand for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford who served from 1973 to 1977.
Sanders took issue with positive words Clinton touted from Kissinger about her tenure at the State Department, then went after Kissinger himself.
“I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of State in the modern history of this country,” Sanders said, adding that he was “proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend.”
Clinton countered that Sanders hasn’t been transparent about whom he does rely on for foreign policy advice.
“Well, it ain’t Henry Kissinger, that’s for sure,” Sanders shot back.
BATTLE ON TWITTER
It was a tough week for Marco Rubio since his widely panned debate performance three days ahead of the New Hampshire primary when he was pummeled by Chris Christie for repeating the same line about President Obama. The Florida senator went on to a fifth- place finish in Tuesday’s GOP voting.
Clinton, or at least her social media team, decided to twist the knife at Rubio’s expense Thursday, parroting in a tweet the line Rubio used repeatedly at the debate in a Twitter burn that simultaneously jabbed at Sanders: “Let’s dispel with this fiction that @ POTUS doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.” The accompanying article Clinton shared was about Sanders critiquing Obama’s leadership.
Rubio fired back, tweeting “@HillaryClinton knew exactly what she was doing and the FBI would like to know too,” along with an article about an FBI investigation of Clinton’s private email server.
THREE MORE CANDIDATES LEAVE GOP FIELD
The New Hampshire primary boosted some candidates and ended hopes of others. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was one casualty of the Granite State, suspending his bid the day after a sixth- place finish. Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, the longest long shot, ended his campaign on Friday.
Carly Fiorina also dropped out after seventh- place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. The former Hewlett- Packard CEO doesn’t plan to spend too much time dwelling on what could have been. The Los Angeles Times reported that a speakers firm representing Fiorina blasted out an email just hours after her White House hopes ended on Wednesday, advertising that she was “now available for speaking engagements around the world.”