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 Though he was well behind Donald Trump in the first-in-the-nation primary, Kasich said he saw the results as a sign that “the light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning.” 
 
 A strong finish could help Kasich gather momentum as he moves on to other primary states. 
 
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 Kasich, a former chairman of the House Budget Committee and a moderate conservative, described “magic in the air with this campaign.” 
 
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 “In this campaign, I’ve become convinced even more about what it takes to win a political campaign and what it takes for somebody to be a leader,” he said. “It’s not just what’s up here in the head, it’s also what’s deep in here in the heart.” 
 
 Kasich, who said via Twitter he would head to South Carolina to continue his primary bid, saved some tough talk for the Democratic candidates for president. 
 
 He said he believed Sanders would speak Tuesday night until he turned 77 (Sanders is 74), and urged Hillary Clinton to move on because her campaign hadn’t worked in New Hampshire. 
 
 “It’s not going to work here for them next fall,” Kasich said, “because I’m coming back to New Hampshire.” 
 
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 Kasich, a former Lehman Brothers employee and nine-term House member, has stood back from joining attacks on his Republican opponents, priding himself on his “positive campaign” efforts, but he still has taken at least a few shots at Democrats. 
 
 “I am for Bernie being president of Ben and Jerry’s,” Kasich, who finished eighth in the Iowa caucuses, said this week. 
 
 Steve Annear can be reached at steve.annear@globe.com . Follow him on Twitter @steveannear .Andy Rosen can be reached at andrew.rosen@globe.com . Follow him on Twitter at @andyrosen ||||| Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersPro-Clinton Super-PAC launches 2 ads against Trump Reid blames Sanders supporters for disruptions at Nev. convention Overnight Finance: House unveils 2M Zika bill | GOP hasn't given up on budget | New phase in Puerto Rico fight MORE told a screaming crowd at his New Hampshire headquarters that his victory over Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonPro-Clinton Super-PAC launches 2 ads against Trump Overnight Healthcare: Zika fight enters new phase Democrats’ promises same as past utopian efforts — they will fail MORE in the state's primary was the result of excited voters he said could be mobilized in a general election. 
 
 "What happened here in New Hampshire in terms of the enthusiastic and aroused electorate ... that is what will happen all over this country," Sanders said. 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT Surrounded by supporters chanting "we don't need no super-PAC," the Vermont Independent declared, "It is just too late for the same old same old establishment ... the American people want real change." 
 
 "The government of our great country belongs to all the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super-PACS." 
 
 Sanders began speaking to the crowd a little more than an hour after The Associated Press called the race in his favor immediately after polls closed in New Hampshire. 
 
 Sanders reminded the crowd that just nine months ago they had no campaign organization and no money, "and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America" — referring to the Clintons. 
 
 Sanders said he was going to New York City tonight and tomorrow but not to hold a fundraiser on Wall Street. He said he was instead going to hold a fundraiser "right here, right now, right across America," asking his supporters to go to his website and contribute. 
 
 The crowd cheered loudest when Sanders talked about a "yuge" voter turnout. "And I say 'yuuuge,'" he said, riffing on a line he used on Saturday Night Live with comedian Larry David. 
 
 "Yuge!" the Sanders supporters yelled. ||||| Bernie Sanders thrashed Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, an emphatic early triumph for a populist campaign long dismissed as an afterthought in the Democratic presidential primary. 
 
 The Vermont senator's dominant performance in his neighboring state could force Clinton's team to reassess its operations and solidify Sanders' candidacy as a serious threat for the nomination. 
 
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 "The people of New Hampshire have sent a profound message to the political establishment, the economic establishment and by the way, to the media establishment," Sanders said in his victory speech. "What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and establishment economics. The people want real change." 
 
 He warned his supporters that his win could augur an uglier phase of the race. “They are throwing everything at me but the kitchen sink, and I have a feeling that kitchen sink is coming soon," Sanders said. 
 
 With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders led Clinton 60 percent to 38 percent. Sanders' senior strategist, Tad Devine, told POLITICO it “was, we believe, the biggest margin of victory in a contested Democratic primary in history." 
 
 Clinton sought to signal a new stage of her campaign as it looks to regroup for the March contests, which feature more diverse electorates that should aid her cause. 
 
 "It's not whether you get knocked down that matters, it's whether you get back up," she told supporters after calling Sanders to concede. She echoed many of Sanders' campaign themes — vowing to crack down on Wall Street, push for campaign finance reform and fight for women's rights, gay rights and workers' rights — but said that she could actually produce results. 
 
 “Now we take this campaign to the entire country," she declared. "We’re going to fight for every vote in every state. We’re going to fight for real solutions to make a difference in people’s lives.” 
 
 But the New Hampshire results were so convincing that the race was called as soon as the last polls in the state closed, and Sanders supporters were still making their way into Concord High School for his watch party. Cheers erupted and music blared when TVs showed him as the winner. 
 
 "Nine months ago, if you told somebody that we would win the New Hampshire primary, they would not have believed you," Sanders wrote in a fundraising appeal to supporters asking for $3 a pop. "Not at all. Too bold, they would have said. Not enough money to compete against the billionaires. You showed them tonight." 
 
 In her own message to supporters, Clinton wrote that she "[wished] tonight had gone differently." 
 
 
 
 "But I know what it's like to be knocked down -- and I've learned from long experience that it's not whether you get knocked down that matters. It's about whether you get back up," she wrote. 
 
 The Clinton campaign released a separate memo Tuesday evening mapping out the candidate's way forward. 
 
 "The nomination will very likely be won in March, not February, and we believe that Hillary Clinton is well positioned to build a strong – potentially insurmountable – delegate lead next month," campaign manager Robby Mook wrote in the memo, which touted the importance of next month and Super Tuesday in particular. 
 
 The campaign also emphasized Clinton's strength among Hispanic and African American voters, as well as her broader appeal beyond Iowa and New Hampshire. 
 
 "Additionally, as the campaign moves to states with a heavier presence of military personnel and veterans, Sen. Sanders should expect renewed questions about his foreign policy proposals and preparedness to be Commander-in-Chief," Mook wrote, also pointing to the campaign's "data-driven operation" to get out the vote in the months to come. 
 
 "We believe that Hillary’s unique level of strength among African Americans, Hispanics, women and working families of all backgrounds – combined with the most data-driven and targeted campaign ever waged – will net the delegates in March needed to put her on a clear path to the nomination," he wrote in the memo. 
 
 Exit poll data from NBC News suggested that 55 percent of primary voters had made up their mind before last month, while just 23 percent said they had waited until the last few days. CNN's exit poll data showed similar results. 
 
 Earlier Tuesday, Devine told MSNBC's "MTP Daily" that the margin of victory was important. 
 
 “Yes, I mean I think if we have a substantial victory, that will help us even more," he said, noting the importance of bringing in younger and independent voters."I think that’s an important case that we’d want to prove," he added. 
 
 Moments earlier, Mook told Chuck Todd that their operation is prepared for an "uphill climb" after Tuesday's primary. 
 
 Eight years ago, after a humbling third-place Iowa finish, Clinton staged a come-from-behind win in New Hampshire that rescued her campaign. This time, Clinton eked out a win in Iowa, but New Hampshire never looked nearly as kind to her. 
 
 For his part, Sanders achieved a bit of history with his victory, becoming the first Jewish candidate to win a primary, something that previous contenders such as Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter and Milton Shapp were unable to achieve. 
 
 The high stakes for both sides in the first-in-the-nation primary have been on glaring display all week long. 
 
 In their first head-to-head debate last Thursday in Durham, New Hampshire, the two candidates dropped the comity of the first four debates for a bruising, two-hour rumble. In one memorable clash, Sanders attacked Clinton over her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs; Clinton responded that her rival was leveling a "very artful smear" of corruption against her: "Enough is enough," she admonished. "If you've got something to say, say it." 
 
 Since then, though, Clinton has been on the defensive. After being asked at the debate whether she would release transcripts of her paid speeches, at first she said that she would "look into" it, but then struck a less amenable tone. “Let everybody who’s ever given a speech to any private group under any circumstances release them,” Clinton told ABC. “We’ll all release them at the same time.” 
 
 Generational and gender tensions between the two candidates' supporters grew more pronounced over the weekend. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem declared to Bill Maher that young women are only supporting Sanders because "the boys are with Bernie," then later apologized. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Clinton surrogate, trotted out her maxim, "There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other." Sanders disavowed a group of supporters calling themselves "Berniebros," saying, "Anybody who is supporting me and doing sexist things, we don't want them." 
 
 Former President Bill Clinton got into the act, too, denouncing Sanders (without mentioning him by name) as "the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big.” 
 
 Clinton had tried to tamp down expectations, saying some pundits have argued she would have been better off skipping the state. On Saturday, both candidates took brief detours from campaigning in the state: Clinton went to Flint, Michigan, to address the water crisis; Sanders traveled to New York City for a "Saturday Night Live" skit with his spot-on impersonator, Larry David. 
 
 Gabriel Debenedetti contributed reporting from Concord, New Hampshire. ||||| AP Photo Trump: 'We are going to win so much' 
 
 Donald Trump was magnanimous in declaring victory Tuesday night — but all signs of his immediate post-Iowa humility were gone. 
 
 Instead, he was back to boasting about "winning" and pledging to make American great again, while taking slams at Democratic winner Bernie Sanders and totally ignoring Hillary Clinton. 
 
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 “We are going to start winning again and we are going to win so much," Trump said at his victory party in Manchester, two hours after news outlets declared him the victor in the New Hampshire GOP primary. "You are going to be so happy.” 
 
 He immediately blasted Sanders, who had given his own victory speech just before him. 
 
 “I heard parts of Bernie’s speech," Trump said. "He wants to give away our country, folks.” 
 
 But Trump also struck populist notes similar to those Sanders had sounded, trumpeting what he called his self-funded campaign and his independence from lobbyists and special interests. “I think one of the things that really caught on — self-funding my campaign,” Trump said. 
 
 “We are now going to make [deals] for your benefit," he added. "We are going to make the deals for the American people.” 
 
 Trump never mentioned Clinton, who trailed Sanders by more than 20 points with more than three-quarters of the results in. 
 
 He nodded only obliquely to his second-place finish in Iowa behind Ted Cruz. 
 
 "You know, we learned a lot about ground games in one week, I have to tell you,” he said. 
 
 Trump acted the part of the GOP front-runner at the start of his speech, thanking Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and congratulating the Republicans who had finished far behind him — though he quickly moved on. “Now that I got that over with...,” he said. 
 
 Trump reiterated many of the campaign pledges he's been making for months: rebuilding the military, taking care of veterans, protecting the Second Amendment and building a wall on the Mexican border. 
 
 “We’re going to build a wall," he said. "It’s going to be built. Believe it or not, it’s not even a difficult thing to do.” 
 
 He pledged to be "the greatest jobs president that God ever created" and cast doubt on the official unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, suggested that the real unemployment rate could be as high as 42 percent. 
 
 Trump thanked his parents, his siblings, his wife and his children, as well as his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and his spokeswoman, Hope Hicks. 
 
 He said his wife, Melania, "said right from the beginning, 'You know, if you run you know you’re going to win.'” 
 
 With 76 percent of the vote counted in the GOP primary, Trump was leading with 34 percent of the vote. John Kasich was in second with 16 percent, with Cruz, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio behind him.
– Donald Trump won the first electoral victory of his life Tuesday night and he promised supporters there would be many more to come. "We are going to start winning again and we are going to win so much," he said at his victory party in New Hampshire, per Politico. "You are going to be so happy." Trump—who cruised to victory with around 34% of the vote—went on to repeat campaign promises to build a border wall, "make America great again," and be the "greatest jobs president that God ever created." He also slammed fellow New Hampshire winner Bernie Sanders, accusing him of wanting "to give away our country." Here's what some of the other candidates had to say: Marco Rubio finally admitted that his debate performance on Saturday was a disaster, the Washington Post reports. "Our disappointment tonight is not on you—it's on me," Rubio, who finished in fifth, told supporters. "I did not do well on Saturday night, so listen to this: That will never happen again." During his victory speech, Bernie Sanders praised the "yuge" voter turnout and said that what happened in New Hampshire "in terms of the enthusiastic and aroused electorate" will happen all over America, reports the Hill. "The government of our great country belongs to all the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACS," he said. In a fiery concession speech, Hillary Clinton vowed to "take this campaign to the entire country" and "fight for every vote in every state," reports Politico. "It's not whether you get knocked down that matters, it's whether you get back up," she said. Ted Cruz, claiming he was "effectively tied for third" in the New Hampshire race, congratulated Trump and John Kasich and thanked New Hampshire, telling supporters: "Your victory tonight has left the Washington cartel utterly terrified." After his second-place finish, Kasich told supporters that there was "magic in the air" and the "light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning," per the Boston Globe. "In this campaign, I've become convinced even more about what it takes to win a political campaign and what it takes for somebody to be a leader," he said. "It's not just what’s up here in the head, it's also what's deep in here in the heart."