MANCHESTER, N.H. — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former vice president Joe Biden are the polar opposites of the Democratic presidential race in message and style.
Now, just days before the New Hampshire primary, you can add another category — momentum.
The contrast was vivid Thursday as Sanders boldly declared victory in the popular vote in the problem-plagued Iowa caucuses, while touting a huge January fund-raising haul along with a boost in staffing and advertising in several states that will hold primaries on Super Tuesday and beyond.
At the same time, Biden dropped out of sight. He spent the day meeting with his advisers and preparing for Friday night’s debate as he tried to revive his campaign after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa.
On Thursday night, he got more bad news as he fell to fourth place in New Hampshire in the Boston Globe/WBZ-TV/Suffolk University poll. The survey also showed Sanders in a statistical dead heat with former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Biden and Sanders, the two former national polling front-runners, are entering a critical moment in the Democratic presidential race, as results still trickling out of Iowa showed Sanders in a virtual tie with Buttigieg in state delegates allocated by the caucuses. Senator Elizabeth Warren remains in third place.
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