Two political outsiders took the second primary election of 2016, with voters telling exit pollsters they are sick of the federal government as it currently is.

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump won the Democratic and Republican primaries, respectively, with several networks giving the two candidates projected wins as soon as the last poll closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

  • Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump win the New Hampshire primaries.
  • John Kasich and Hillary Clinton came in second in each party primary.
  • Chris Christie said he is returning to New Jersey to take stock of his campaign, but so far none of the candidates who did poorly in New Hampshire are bowing out yet.
  • Exit polls show voters in New Hampshire are angry about the state of the federal government, and Republicans feel more betrayed by their candidates than Democrats do.
  • The presidential delegate count ▼

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The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 242 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 35 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 11 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 11 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Rand Paul: 1 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 243 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 60 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 38 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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11:12 p.m.

John Kasich says the key to his second-place finish in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary was that the "light overcame the darkness" of American politics.

The Ohio governor tells supporters that his positive campaign overcame negative attacks funded with tens of millions of dollars.

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11:06 p.m.

Jeb Bush says New Hampshire voters have "reset" the Republican presidential race.

The former Florida governor — who's in a fight for third place with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — says he's campaign "is not dead" and that's he's looking forward to the upcoming contest in South Carolina.

Bush was betting big on New Hampshire to help him recover from his poor single-digit showing in the Iowa caucuses.

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10:58 p.m.

Donald Trump may have captured the GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire and John Kasich came next, but Ted Cruz sees a different real winner of the contest.

The Texas senator — who won the leadoff Iowa caucuses but is fighting for third in New Hampshire — says it's the "conservative grassroots."

Cruz says he's proved the critics wrong for says a conservative couldn't do well in New Hampshire.

Now, he says he's focused on upcoming contests in South Carolina, Nevada and across the South in early March.

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10:46 p.m.

Marco Rubio says he's disappointed in his performance Tuesday in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary, and he's blaming himself.

And the Florida senator — who finished a surprising second in the leadoff Iowa caucuses — says he has a good idea why he's in a fight for third place with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Florida. Gov. Jeb Bush.

Rubio is pointing to his performance in the last debate before the primary.

He tells supporters: "I did not do well on Saturday night."

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10:45 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 203 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 12 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
    • Rand Paul: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 207 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 60 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 39 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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10:40 p.m.

Exit polling in New Hampshire shows that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won the support of about 9 in 10 voters who thought honesty was important.

One of the questions asked of voters was which of the two candidates _ Sanders or Hillary Clinton _ is honest and trustworthy.

Half said they think only Sanders is, while about 40 percent said they both are. Few said only Clinton is.

Nearly all of those who said only Sanders is honest and trustworthy said he got their vote.

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10:35 p.m.

Chris Christie heading home to New Jersey to `take a deep breath,' take stock of presidential bid.

The New Jersey governor had banked on a strong finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, but he's on track to end up far off the pace despite holding more than 70 town halls events over the past few months.

It's a tough blow for a candidate whose campaign had trouble from the start about raising money and building support in a crowded field dominated by another brash East Coaster: businessman Donald Trump.

Christie tells supporters that he'll wait to see the final New Hampshire results before making a decision about the way ahead.

But he says he can do that best from home, and not a hotel room in South Carolina _ the site of the next Republican contest.

Donald Trump is basking in his victory in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire and says that America under his leadership will "start winning again."

Trump is telling supporters that he'll be the "greatest jobs president God ever created."

He's promising that if he's commander in chief, he'll "knock the hell" out of the Islamic State group and negotiate what he says would be better trade deals.

A Trump presidency, he says, would mean "nobody is going to mess with us."

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10:30 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 179 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 12 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
    • Rand Paul: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 185 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 59 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 39 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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10:15 p.m.

She's back in the pack among Republicans in New Hampshire, but the fight isn't going out of Carly Fiorina.

The Republican presidential candidate tells supporters at a country club in Manchester that "I'm not going to sit down and be quiet, and neither are you."

She's taken the stage with her husband, Frank, by her side. And what's playing in the background? "I Won't Back Down," by rocker Tom Petty.

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10:05 p.m.

Jeb Bush's campaign doesn't think much of rival John Kasich's second-place showing in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary.

Kasich finished behind Donald Trump. Bush — a former Florida governor — is in a close race with two senators — Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida — for third.

Bush spokesman Tim Miller says Kasich "ran a one-state campaign" in New Hampshire and doesn't have "a viable path" to the nomination.

The next Republican contest is in South Carolina later in February, and Miller says the Bush campaign feels "very confident about our position" in the state.

As for Kasich, Miller contends that the former congressman "doesn't have a constituency past New Hampshire."

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10 p.m.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has finished second in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary.

There's a tight race for third among Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. It's still too close to call right now.

Kasich emerged from the pack of candidates to finish behind billionaire businessman Donald Trump on Tuesday night.

Kasich's campaign manager says he expects an increased flow of contributions to the candidate's campaign after the strong showing.

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9:50 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 121 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 12 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
    • Rand Paul: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 126 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 59 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 38 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
    • Rocky De La Fuente: 1 percent

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9:45 p.m.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich finishes second in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary.

He's won in New Hampshire and now Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders plans to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton over breakfast in New York City on Wednesday.

That's according to two people who were briefed on the meeting. They are telling The Associated Press that the get-together is set for the famed Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not yet been publicly released.

Sharpton isn't immediately responding to a request for comment.
 
Associated Press writer Jonathan Lemire in New York contributed to this report.

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9:29 p.m.

Hillary Clinton is congratulating Bernie Sanders on his New Hampshire win on Tuesday night.

But for the former secretary of state, it's time to get back to the issues: campaign finance reform, equal pay for women, the lead-tainted drinking water in Flint, Michigan.

Clinton also wants younger voters to support her campaign as the race goes on.

She says she knows she has "some work to do particularly with young people."

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9:15 p.m.

The fight goes on for Hillary Clinton.

Even after losing to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Clinton is promising to take her fight for the nomination to the rest of the country.

And if she feels spurned by New Hampshire voters, she's not showing it to supporters in Hooksett, New Hampshire.

She tells them: "I still love New Hampshire, and I always will."

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9:10 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 84 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 15 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 12 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 12 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
    • Rand Paul: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 87 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 58 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 40 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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9:05 p.m.

Exit polls are helping shed some light on the various strands of support among voters in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary.

Donald Trump is backed by voters looking for an outsider and those who made up their minds a while ago.

John Kasich does best with voters looking for a candidate with political experience _ along with moderates, better educated voters and those who made their vote decision in the past few days.

Ted Cruz is supported by many voters who are very conservative and evangelical Christians.

Marco Rubio does best among voters for whom experience and electability is important.

Voters who value experience are also inclined to support Jeb Bush.

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9:03 p.m.

CNN reports Hillary Clinton has called and conceded New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders.

Thanks to his New Hampshire win, Donald Trump will take the lead in the race for delegates for the Republican National Convention.

It won't be much of a lead.

There are only 23 delegates at stake in New Hampshire's Republican primary, and they are awarded proportionally, based on the statewide vote.

Trump will win at least nine. The final tally depends on how many candidates get more than 10 percent of the vote, the threshold needed to qualify for delegates.

Trump started night trailing Ted Cruz by one delegate.

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8:50 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 51 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 12 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 12 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
    • Rand Paul: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 54 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 58 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 40 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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8:45 p.m.

While a Sanders win is certainly a big deal in New Hampshire, it is unsurprising to election historians.

In the last few decades, when a New Englander is up for election in the New Hampshire primary, voters tend to side with him.

  • 2012: Mitt Romney
  • 2004: John Kerry
  • 1992: Paul Tsongas
  • 1988: Michael Dukakis

As a matter of fact, since 1960, seven New Englanders have won either the Republican or Democratic primary in New Hampshire.

According to exit polls, Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential primary Tuesday by getting a majority of votes from both men and women, independents and voters under 45.

Rival Hillary Clinton is backed a majority of voters aged 65 and older and those with incomes over $200,000.

Independents make up nearly 4 in 10 voters in the primary, and Sanders is winning nearly three-quarters of their votes.

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8:35 p.m.

A big victory for Donald Trump in New Hampshire, a big victory celebration for the billionaire businessman.

When word came just at 8 p.m. that Trump was declared the winner, his supporters at campaign headquarters in Manchester shouted his name and they waved foam fingers emblazoned with the phrase, "You're Hired."

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8:35 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 40 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 12 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 41 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 56 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 41 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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8:30 p.m.

Bernie Sanders' victory in New Hampshire means he's assured of a majority of the state's pledged delegates.

With 24 at stake, Sanders stands to gain at least 13. Hillary Clinton will receive at least seven.

Clinton remains ahead in the overall delegate count due to support from superdelegates — the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice.

Including superdelegates nationwide, Clinton has amassed at least 392 delegates and Sanders at least 42.

The magic number to clinch the nomination is 2,382.

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8:15 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 24 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 34 percent
    • John Kasich: 16 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 12 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 10 percent
    • Chris Christie: 8 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 2 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 32 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 56 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 42 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent

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8 p.m.

Associated Press, CNN project Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump will win the New Hampshire primary.

Each took the top spot after second-place finishes in the Iowa caucuses.

Trump's first victory of the 2016 White House race means he's no longer a political rookie but the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination.

And the win for Sanders completes his rise from presidential long shot to legitimate challenger for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton.

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7:55 p.m.

New Hampshire's secretary of state says voter turnout in Tuesday's presidential primary is likely to be slightly higher than in 2008.

Bill Gardner predicted several days ago that roughly 282,000 Republican ballots cast would be and 268,000 Democratic ballots cast.

He says his visits to various polling places Tuesday lead him to believe his predictions are on par.

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7:50 p.m.

The clock is ticking in New Hampshire: The final polls are set to close at 8 p.m. in the first-in-the-nation primary contest of the 2016 presidential election.

New Hampshire has 1.33 million residents. More than 870,000 are registered to vote.

Polls started opening at 7 a.m., except for a few communities that begin voting just after midnight.

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7:45 p.m.

The latest election returns:

  • Republicans: 4 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Donald Trump: 42 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 11 percent
    • John Kasich: 11 percent
    • Marco Rubio: 9 percent
    • Jeb Bush: 9 percent
    • Chris Christie: 7 percent
    • Carly Fiorina: 4 percent
    • Ben Carson: 3 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 1 percent
  • Democrats: 5 of 300 precincts reporting
    • Bernie Sanders: 57 percent
    • Hillary Clinton: 39 percent
    • Total Write-ins: 2 percent

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7:25 p.m.

Call them the late deciders.

Nearly half of the voters in Tuesday's Republican primary in New Hampshire are saying they made up their mind in the last week. On the Democratic side? More than half say they decided before that.

The findings are among some of the early results of the exit poll conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and the television networks.

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7:15 p.m.

What's at stake on the delegate front in the New Hampshire primary?

For Democrats, 24 delegates are up for grabs. On the GOP side, it's 23.

The GOP count after the Iowa caucuses: eight for Ted Cruz, and seven each for Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination.

Hillary Clinton holds a big delegate lead, mainly due to on endorsements from superdelegates. Those are the party officials who can support the candidate of their choice.

Clinton has 385 delegates and Bernie Sanders has 29.

It takes 2,382 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

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7:05 p.m.

Move it along, Mr. Trump. And the entourage with you, too.

That's the message from the moderator at a New Hampshire polling site — the Webster Elementary School in Manchester.

Jim Townsend's in a huff over the commotion caused by Trump's visit — and the reporters, Secret Service members and Trump supporters blocking voters trying to get in and out of the polling place.

Here's how Townsend puts it: "Please, no one can get through to vote thanks to Mr. Trump. Let's move it along."

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7 p.m.

It's not clear yet whether New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary will break for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. But there's no doubt about where their next showdown will come — it's the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 20.

And now Nevada Democrats say the candidates will participate in a town-hall event on Las Vegas two days before those caucuses.

The state party chairwoman, Roberta Lange, says MSNBC and the Spanish-language television network Telemundo have agreed to host the event.

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6:35 p.m.

An outside group that's helping Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is spending more than $1.5 million on digital and media advertisements in South Carolina and Nevada — the next states on the 2016 election calendar.

The new expenditures are by Conservative Solutions PAC, a super political action committee that faces no contribution limits.

All but about $200,000 is for South Carolina. That's according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Conservative Solutions is the second-most-active super PAC in the presidential race so far. Only Right to Rise, which is boosting Republican Jeb Bush, has spent more on television and radio.

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5:59 p.m.

Republican voters in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary are much more negative about their politicians than Democrats are about theirs, according to early results of the exit poll conducted by Edison Research for the Associated Press and television networks. Half of Republicans said they feel betrayed by politicians from the Republican Party, while fewer than 2 in 10 Democrats say they feel betrayed by Democratic politicians.

Three in 10 Republican voters said the economy was the most important issue facing the country, similar to the percentages saying government spending and terrorism.

Three in 10 Democratic primary voters said the economy was the most important issue facing the country, while a similar share said income equality was most important.

The survey was conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks by Edison Research as voters left their polling places at 44 randomly selected sites in New Hampshire. Preliminary results include interviews with 1434 Democratic primary voters and 1257 Republican primary voters and have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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5:58 p.m.

Voters in New Hampshire's primary are deeply unhappy with the way the federal government is working, according to early results of the exit poll conducted by Edison Research for the Associated Press and television networks.

Half of Democratic voters said they're dissatisfied with the way government is working, with another 1 in 10 saying they're angry. That's even higher among Republican primary voters, with 9 in 10 voters saying they're either dissatisfied or angry.

About a third of Republican voters said the most important quality in a candidate is someone who shared their values, while about the same proportion said it was someone who could bring about needed change.

Democratic voters said honesty, experience and someone who cares about people like them were the most important qualities in a candidate.

The survey was conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks by Edison Research as voters left their polling places at 44 randomly selected sites in New Hampshire. Preliminary results include interviews with 1434 Democratic primary voters and 1257 Republican primary voters and have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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5:50 p.m.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is revisiting some past controversies as he greets voters in Manchester.

As he arrived at Webster Elementary School Tuesday, Trump was asked by a man who identified himself as a Muslim journalist about Trump's proposal to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the U.S.

Trump brought up the ban again when asked by a foreign outlet outside the Northwest Elementary School whether he would maintain the country's relationship with Britain.

"When I talked about the ban," Trump says, "I received literally million and millions of responses all over the world from that. And the people in the U.K. were so incredible to me."

He added: "They happen to agree with me. There are a lot of problems right now and I know how to solve them."

Trump also defended his decision to repeat a supporter who'd called out an offensive word for cowardice at a rally Monday night.

"Well I didn't say that. Somebody else said it, I didn't say it. That was a re-tweet of what a woman said," he says, adding that he didn't regret it "at all."

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5:18 p.m.

Donald Trump is airing a new television ad that bashes Ted Cruz as "the worst kind of Washington insider."

The two candidates are after the same voters, people who want to shake up the federal government by electing an "outsider" president.

The 30-second spot that started airing Tuesday says Cruz of "talks from both side of his mouth" on allowing immigrants who are in the country illegally to stay, and took "sweetheart" loans from Wall Street banks when he ran for Senate in 2012. Then the narrator says Cruz's presidential campaign employed "dirty tricks" when it sent word to Iowans on the night of that state's caucuses that Ben Carson might be dropping out.

Cruz is "the worst kind of Washington insider, who just can't be trusted," the Trump ad concludes, showing Cruz's "TrusTED" campaign slogan.

Trump's latest commercial is part of a nearly $500,000 ad buy there.

South Carolina is the next state to vote in the GOP nomination fight, on Feb. 20.

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4:00 p.m.

Donald Trump is greeting voters face-to-face as they head to the polls.

"How's it looking, everybody? Good?" he repeatedly asked supporters who'd gathered at poll sites, waving signs.

Trump visited two voting locations — the Webster School and the Northwest Elementary School — and shook hands and posed for photos.

He's holding a party for supporters to watch the results come in Manchester Tuesday evening.

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2:18 p.m.

Ted Cruz says Donald Trump has no choice but to engage in profanity because the billionaire businessman can't defend his record.

Cruz briefly addressed Trump's latest insult Tuesday afternoon as he greeted voters inside Manchester's Red Arrow Diner, a must-stop for candidates in both parties.

"Part of the reason that Donald engages in insults is because he can't discuss the substance. He can't defend his record. For example, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Obamacare," Cruz told reporters as he walked into the diner.

Trump has said that's a "lie." Cruz charges that Trump supports universal health care that could lead to health care rationing.

Cruz says, "Donald can't defend that. So instead, his approach is to engage in a profane insult. I'm not going to respond in kind."

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2:16 p.m.

A lot has changed for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as he's risen in primary polls — starting with his ablity to take a walk.

All-but-ignored by the media for more than a quarter century in Congress, the Democratic presidential candidate found himself swarmed by dozens of reporters on Tuesday afternoon in Concord when he decided to take a stroll around the state capital.

"If we have a large voter turnout I think we're going to do just fine," he told the press.

After that, questions were met with stony silence.

"What does he like about New Hampshire," shouted one reporter.

No response.

"Does he miss Vermont?" asked another.

Sanders didn't even crack a smile before jumping into a waiting SUV and taking off.

"He needed a little air," said adviser Tad Devine.

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1:40 p.m.

It seemed like an automatic voter conversion moment for Sen. Marco Rubio. Instead, it was a snapshot of the quirky independence of New Hampshire voters and the impression Rubio left on one.

Rubio and Derry Republican voter Stephanie Tespas stood outside Gilbert Hood Middle School in Derry, locked in a quiet and serious conversation about cancer.

Tespas told Rubio of her son's genetic condition, the same as her husband who battled and survived cancer. Rubio was nodding, and mentioned his own father's losing battle with lung cancer after a lifetime of smoking.

But when Rubio shook Tespas' hand, told her "thank you," and got into his SUV to leave, she said she remained undecided about who to support as she walked into the school to vote.

Tespas left the school gymnasium without saying who she supported, except that it wasn't Rubio.

"I just don't think he's quite ready," she said. "I wanted him to be more personal. I felt like I was in one of his commercials."

Rubio has been criticized as a repeater of rote talking points. He must finish strong in Tuesday's GOP primary to have a shot at being the establishment Republican party's favorite.

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1 p.m.

Republican billionaire Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders are hoping for their first wins of the 2016 race after coming in second in Iowa behind GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Elsewhere on the Republican side, there's a four-way battle among governors Chris Christie and John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio to be the alternative that establishment Republicans might like better than Trump. And on the Democratic side, the Clintons are fuming that the state that made Bill "the comeback kid" in 1992 seemed unlikely to vote for his wife over Sanders.

Reminiscing with a local official about the economy during his presidency Bill Clinton said Monday: "We'd be better off if any of these young people could remember it."

Here are some things to watch as New Hampshire votes on Tuesday:

  • Trump's big talk gets a big test in New Hampshire. Trump is in the lead of the Republican race, and he'll need to finish that way if he doesn't want to be the loser that he's branding opponents. Come in anything but first place, and Trump's fundamental rationale for his candidacy — "I'm a winner" — will be seriously damaged.
  • Clinton, the fundraising juggernaut who won New Hampshire in 2008 and whose family has campaigned there for a quarter century, looks likely to lose the vote Tuesday to a socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is from neighboring Vermont and out-raised Clinton last month by $5 million. There is talk of a campaign shakeup after New Hampshire. Plus, there's evidence in recent days among Clinton backers that the former first lady isn't securing the levels of support among women — particularly young women — that her campaign had expected.
  • Rubio needs a big win in New Hampshire to stay in contention here. But the two governors, Christie and Kasich, have hung virtually their entire White House hopes on finishing strong in New Hampshire. And for Jeb Bush, who limped out of Iowa in sixth place with 2.8 percent of the vote, New Hampshire offers some prospect of redemption. He's been having better crowds in the last few days at his events.

9 a.m.

New Hampshire hosts the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, featuring candidates for the Republican and Democratic nomination. Of the state's 1.33 million residents, more than 870,000 residents are registered to vote. Polls started opening at 7 a.m., except for a handful of communities that began voting just after midnight. In Dixville Notch, voters in that tiny town gave Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich two votes, Republican Donald Trump got two and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won four votes for his Democratic bid.

Here are snapshots of voters who went to the polls Tuesday:

John Starer, 72, of Bedford, a Republican who owns a company that makes glue sticks, voted for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

"I think he's about the only one who could possibly get elected as a Republican. I'd like to think Trump had a chance, but no," he said.

7 a.m.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders hope to emerge from New Hampshire's primary Tuesday with their first wins of the 2016 presidential election, victories that would lend needed credibility to the unexpected contenders' pursuit of their parties' nomination.

Trump leads a Republican field that has been in flux in the final days of campaigning across snowy New Hampshire. A rocky debate performance by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has jeopardized his chance to pull away from a trio of governors and firmly establish himself as the chief rival to Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

In the two-person race for the Democratic nomination, Sanders has held an advantage over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire for weeks. The state is friendly territory for the Vermont senator and a must-win if he's to have a chance of staying competitive with Clinton as the race moves to more diverse states that are seen as more hospitable to the former secretary of state.

12:45 a.m.

The votes have already been counted in three tiny towns with big parts to play in political prognosticating. The polls opened at midnight in Dixville Notch, Hart’s Location and Millsfield.

These towns are allowed by law to open at midnight because they have fewer than 100 voters.

The three towns see a lot of media coverage during election season, especially Dixville Notch. The mountain town with a population of 12 has correctly predicted the eventual Republican nominee in every election since 1968.

The town’s reputation even entered the realm of pop culture when an episode of The West Wing centered on a fictional New Hampshire town inspired by Dixville Notch. The episode was called “Hartsfield Landing.”

DIXVILLE NOTCH: Population of 12

  • Republicans
    • John Kasich: 3
    • Donald Trump: 2
  • Democrats
    • Bernie Sanders: 4
    • Hillary Clinton: 0

MILLSFIELD: Population of 22

  • Republicans
    • Ted Cruz: 9
    • Donald Trump: 3
    • Marco Rubio: 1
    • John Kasich: 1
    • Jeb Bush: 1
    • Chris Christie: 1
    • Carly Fiorina: 1
    • Rand Paul: 1
  • Democrats
    • Hillary Clinton: 2
    • Bernie Sanders: 1

HART'S LOCATION: Population of 43

  • Republicans
    • John Kasich: 5
    • Donald Trump: 4
    • Chris Christie: 2
    • Marco Rubio: 1
    • Jeb Bush: 1
    • Ben Carson: 1
  • Democrats
    • Bernie Sanders: 12
    • Hillary Clinton: 7
    • Mark Stewart Greenstein: 2


The presidential delegate count

Presidential delegate count so far, based on Iowa.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.