After Iowa, Buttigieg is riding a wave of momentum into New Hampshire, climbing 14 percentage points in the same Suffolk tracking poll since Monday.
Pete Buttigieg surged ahead of Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire by 1 percentage point, according to a new poll released Friday by Suffolk University, continuing a steady ascension that's followed his strong performance in the Iowa caucuses Monday.
Read senators' impeachment notes: 7 senators’ handwritten notes offer a new view of Trump's impeachment trial Story continuesSanders, for months considered the frontunner in the Granite State, still leads most recent New Hampshire polls, but Buttigieg has seemed to emerge as his main challenger. "These older voters in New Hampshire did not feel comfortable rotating to Warren or Sanders because of the ideology and because of the lane that they occupied," he said."So Buttigieg was a safe place for them to go – someone who was younger, who shared Biden's moderate lane and who vastly exceeded expectations. When that demographic imploded, so did Joe Biden's chances to be in the top tier.
Paleologos said he also believes Buttigieg benefited from the caucus-counting chaos in Iowa because it gave him four days of extended television coverage that largely characterized him as the winner.
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