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NH primary winners and losers

The New Hampshire primary lived up to its reputation for drama on Tuesday.

Who departs on a high, and whose hopes were dashed by the Granite State?

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are all guaranteed an invitation to the debate because they finished in the top three in the Iowa caucuses.

For the other candidates, it will require finishing in the top five in Tuesday night’s New Hampshire primary, or in the top five in an average of national and South Carolina polls. Those polls must be approved by CBS News and released before noon on Feb. 12.

Bush and Rubio race to the bottom

New Hampshire was supposed to be the nail Marco Rubio would drive into Jeb Bush’s coffin.

Now, it might be the beginning of Rubio digging his own political grave.

5 takeaways from New Hampshire

If there was any doubt that voters in both parties are in an ornery, establishment-flaying frame of mind (oh, and there wasn’t) Tuesday’s First in the Nation primary demolished the last illusion that 2016 would revert to anything approaching a normal election cycle.

Race Goes to South Carolina, With No Clear Republican Threat to Trump

With Donald J. Trump’s decisive victory in New Hampshire and no strong runner-up among a pack of also-rans, the Republican race barreled into South Carolina on Wednesday shadowed by a question: whether any alternative candidate can gain enough support to threaten Mr. Trump’s drive to the nomination.

John Kasich’s big day in New Hampshire, explained

Ohio Gov. John Kasich won the much-coveted second place slot in New Hampshire’s Republican primary Tuesday, with 16 percent of the vote — trailing Donald Trump’s winning 35 percent but having a relatively big breakthrough for a candidate who hasn’t made much impact so far.

Trump notches an easy victory in New Hampshire’s Republican primary

Donald Trump resoundingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary Tuesday night, giving the billionaire mogul his first victory in an improbable and brash campaign that already has turned American politics upside down.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, on the strength of his optimistic focus on economic renewal and lifting people out of the shadows, finished a distant second, while former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) headed toward a photo finish for third place.