I was disappointed in President Clinton . . . I hope that this campaign does not degenerate.

When you have victory, you don't need sleep.

Hillary Clinton's bracing 22-point defeat in New Hampshire came at the hands of voters who seemed to reject not so much her policies but Clinton herself — making her rebound all the more complicated unless the state proves to be an outlier.

That verdict comes through clearly in the exit poll of New Hampshire’s Democratic primary voters. Just over a third of them cited honesty and trustworthiness as the most important attribute for the next president, and Clinton’s opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, won those voters 91% to 5%. Asked if one candidate or both shared their values, a third said only Sanders did, and he won those voters 97% to 2%.

The repudiation was across the board. Sanders won almost all categories of voters, including women. Clinton had made them a specific target, but Sanders won women's votes by 11 points.

After poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire, Carly Fiorina announced Wednesday that she is ending her presidential bid.

"I've said throughout this campaign that I will not sit down and be quiet. I'm not going to start now," she said in a statement. "While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them."

The White House bid by Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard, was always considered a long shot. She has never held elected office, and the only other time she ran — for U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer's California seat — she lost by 10 points.

In her quest to bolster support among black voters, Hillary Clinton has touted her close ties to the Obama administration.  

And on Wednesday, with the South Carolina primary in her sights, Clinton announced the endorsement of the state's House Minority Leader J. Todd Rutherford. 

An early supporter of then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, Rutherford's Columbia, S.C., House district is overwhelmingly black.

Hillary Clinton supporters are launching a $25-million effort aimed at turning out black and Latino voters, according to the Associated Press. The organization will be advised by Guy Cecil, who runs the multi-million dollar pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA. Priorities, which collects substantial sums from Wall Street, is a frequent target of Bernie Sanders.

The new group, to be called Every Citizen Counts, will not be focused on helping Clinton in the primary. But still, it is another campaign committee controlled by friends of Clinton that is positioned to collect unlimited sums. It threatens to give Sanders yet another line of attack.

The Clinton super PACs have been treading cautiously so far. The attacks they have leveled against Sanders have been limited mostly to pitching news organizations unflattering stories about Clinton’s rival and media appearances by one of the masterminds behind the groups, David Brock, a longtime Clinton loyalist. But they have yet to use the tens of millions of dollars they have raised to unleash a major advertising effort against the senator, a move that would carry the risk of backlash in a race where Sanders has tapped into voter resentment over such spending.   

The Republican presidential primary has not winnowed to a two-candidate race after New Hampshire, as Ted Cruz had hoped. So the Texas senator, who won the Iowa caucuses, is ramping up for another showdown against front-runner Donald Trump.

"The only way to beat Donald Trump is to highlight his record," Cruz said during a campaign swing Wednesday through Myrtle Beach, S.C., before heading back to the Senate for evening votes.

Cruz attacked the celebrity billionaire as "not conservative" and warned South Carolina to look for a candidate who has "walked the walk."

Bernie Sanders celebrated his win in New Hampshire's presidential primary by shooting hoops with the hosts of ABC's daytime talk show "The View" and tasting "Bernie's Yearning," the ice cream named after the Vermont senator.

"This the first time I've tasted it," Sanders said. "Excellent. Really good."

Sanders won Tuesday's primary by a wide margin, but the states of Nevada and South Carolina, which vote next, should be more favorable to Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose brand of tough-talking politics was overtaken by the Donald Trump phenomenon, dropped out of the race Wednesday after lagging a crowded Republican field in the New Hampshire primary.

“I have both won elections that I was supposed to lose and I’ve lost elections I was supposed to win,” Christie wrote Wednesday, in a message on his campaign’s Facebook page.

“It is both the magic and the mystery of politics that you never quite know when which is going to happen, even when you think you do.