Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden underperformed on Tuesday night, failing to meet the threshold required to receive delegates awarded to the top candidates in New Hampshire.
Warren and Biden entered the New Hampshire Democratic primary as fading front-runners, but any momentum either candidate had has been damaged by their inability to win Democratic National Convention delegates. After two primaries, Biden and Warren have won a combined 14 of the 65 delegates up for grabs in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Biden, once predicted the likely winner of the primary season, finished in fifth place and left New Hampshire early to give his post-election night speech at a rally in South Carolina. Warren took pictures with supporters at a rally in New Hampshire as her fourth-place finish flashed across television screens.
The Massachusetts Democrat led polling in New Hampshire as late as October. Biden now turns to South Carolina, where his campaign, struggling with cash flow and rapidly losing momentum, is polling sharply ahead of the field.
State delegates help select the eventual Democratic nominee, and the 24 New Hampshire slots will be split among Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the top three finishers.
BREAKING: Biden and Warren will not meet the threshold to receive any delegates in the New Hampshire
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) February 12, 2020
