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Good Wednesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. A few thoughts on last night's New Hampshire results. The margin last night,

Bernie Sanders by roughly 3,600 votes for Pete Buttigieg, is minuscule and lays out an argument that they have somewhat equal

claim to being the frontrunner. With Bernie's crowd booing Buttigieg, Sanders himself

rapping people who take money from billionaires and Pete decrying purity, the party isn't

moving closer together, but is rather headed for an ideological showdown. And we've got a

Midwestern arising. Amy Klobuchar had a stellar and unexpectedly strong finish, a sign that a strong

debate has an impact, and that the race is, at the moment, between Sanders and Buttigieg, with the

Minnesota Democrat holding a lot of sway and a bunch of cards.

Combined Klobuchar with Buttigieg, and you have two candidates who have run as pragmatic

centrists from the geographic and political middle of America.

They combined for 44.2% of the primary vote in New Hampshire, which is significant.

The big question coming out of last night is what is his moderate surge due to Mike Bloomberg's

argument? Does it chasten his rise because a Bernie alternative is on the march?

Or does it halt it because it shows there's an anti-Bernie option that's participating in the

primary process that's not him? People on his campaign were downplaying the two dozen delegates awarded

in New Hampshire as modest compared to Super Tuesday, which Bloomberg is focused on. Joe Biden

has spent a lot of time saying that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump don't want him as the nominee.

It turns out voters in New Hampshire and Iowa don't either. He's in for a few very long days

until South Carolina. Another big question.

What happened to Elizabeth Warren?

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