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>>>>eporter: that caidate will not be chris chriie or carly fiorina. as you noted both of them suspending their campaigns today. asor john kasich, campaign advisers tell me his goal here is to prejent jeb bush from turning the south carolina primary into his comeback story. lester. >> peter, thank you will. on the democratic side of all this bernie sanders' campaign says he raised over $5 million since the polls closed last night. now sanders is looking to broaden his appeal with minority voters while hill hill may shake up her campaign after her resounding loss. we've got both campaigns covered starting with nbc's kasie hunt.. kasie? >> reporter: lester, good evening. these millions that made up the best fund-raising day ever ming in small st $34 apiece, but senatoto sanders telling nbc news tonight he knows he still has a lot of work to do. bernie sanders looking ahead. a day after he sent hill hill to stunning defeat in new hampshire. having breakfast with reverend al sharpton at an iconic harlem restaurant, blocks from where kline kline moved his o

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trump is getting help now from his new ally, chris chriie. not relenting. mary bruce is in memphis, tennessee, this mornin mary, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, dan, good morning. with super tuesday around the corner, the attacks are getting supersized. it is getting ugly out here. the republican candidates seem to be using every chance they get to take each other down. >> he's a very nasty guy. >> friends don't let friends vote for con artists. >> this is my country, damn it! my country! >> reporter: this morning, the top republican candidates are eviscerating each other. unleashing some of the nastiest attacks yet. >> but he's flying around on hair force one. >> repter: marco rubio trying to out-trump trump has launched a personal a assault ainst the front-runner. >> he just came out firing. >> reporter: rubio's campaign is relishing his new attack dog status. channeling rocky in a w highlight reel from the florida senator's latest debate performance. waiting in the middle of a field to get into this airport hangar trump is fighting back hard. >> li

percent jeb bush three percent john kakach carly orina anand mike huckckee all at two pepeent and chris chriie rick santorum and jim gilmore closing out republicans. on the democratic side we have six in a percent of precincts reporting hillary clinton maintaining that lead 51 percent has narrow just a bit ernie santos two percentage points behind her at nine rcent and martin o'malley is at one percent. of cour ted cruz still in t lead here right n now among the republican candidates claire course i always state fairgrounds begin to what's happening there. rep cruises headquarters where the crowd is about to fold from what was just a matter of minutes ago. i would say 15 nutes ago maybe 100 people here people are flooding in the door as we speak with every time the numbers s come in more applaud from the crowd comes the energetic here fireup and like i said every single time they see new numbers with crews heading toward the top of tse ababove trump and bio this crowd is loving it down here. we'll have more updates for you guys is a numbers continue to come in back to you. thank you claire we

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the other part of what wee saw in the playground rhetoric, though, was chris chriie's endorsement. how important was it? >> i think it's a big -- it was obviously a big deal for trump, to have somebody, any kind of establishment figure say he's okay. and i s as flabbergasted as anybody. i did not expect it. >> let me tell you other people who were flabbergasted. amazingly, it's chris christie who is taking heat here. john fund, a conservative writer. "well, now we know the stuff of what a cynical hack mr. straight shooter, chris christie, turned out to be." here is the unbelievable quote of the morning. meg whitman, national finance co-chair for chris christie for presedent puts out this statement that she sent to nbc news this morning. "chris christie's endorsement of donald trump is an astonishing display of political opportunism. donald truru is unfit to be president, a dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears. the governor is mistaken if he thinks he can now count on my support." how about that? >> wow, i agree with christie todd whitman. >> no, meg whitman, ceo of hp.

republican candidates chris chriie and jeb bush in new hampshire where everyone is getting ready for a big showdown inhe first primary. abc's tom lmas is already there, as well. good morning, tom. >> reporter: robin, good morning to you. cruz, trump and rubio come to new hampshire a mucuch different state andnd a much different race because as you mentioned, the pool of candidates betting on you have bush, christie and governor john castic who all were actually here as the iowa caucus was still under way over there in that state. they think the socially moderate republicans and independents could help boost their campaigns. as for jeb bush he said that his campaign is hitting the reset button, some crirics are sayingg that this one-time front-runner has hit the reset button more than once already and another smaller headline to come out of iowa that we have yet to mention. mikeke huckabe dropping out of the race. his campaign could not catch fire like he did the first time he ran for president eight years ago and even though he's out of the race he may win first place for the best sp