But the polling that shows Sanders ahead also shows there are no guarantees: Pete Buttigieg has been rising fast behind him after their neck-and-neck race in Iowa, leaving Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden further back in the latest surveys. Amy Klobuchar, meanwhile, has seen a fundraising boost and higher support in some polls since Friday’s debate at Saint Anselm College.

Here’s everything you need to know about Monday’s strategy, where the campaigns are and what they are doing. Our reporters will be fanned out across the state following all the top campaigns — so check back throughout the day as we update this story with key moments and new developments on the campaign trail.

11:11 a.m. in Manchester, N.H.

Sanders keeps up contrast with Buttigieg on donors

Unlike Sunday, Sanders and his surrogates did not criticize Buttigieg by name at his first campaign stop Monday morning. But they did reference him implicitly at the event, a breakfast at a sports academy.

“You can have a guy who’s funded by corporations, by Wall Street, by the health care industry,” said Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen, a Sanders campaign co-chair. “Or you can pick the candidate who’s been funded by the millions of Americans who have been being screwed by the corporations, Wall Street financiers and the health care industry.”

Sanders has previously hit Buttigieg over the fact that several billionaires have contributed to him. Sanders’ campaign also released a negative video online on the issue.

On Monday, Sanders also sought to contrast his small-dollar fundraising powerhouse with his rivals’ big-ticket fundraisers, but without naming them.

“What we have done is change the nature of the game in terms of funding campaigns,” Sanders said. “Historically in America what candidates did is, ‘Oh, I need a lot of money, I’ll go to some billionaire, billionaire’s home, sit around, raise a lot of money.’ Even in the newspaper today, you can see candidates conferring with their donors.”

Sanders added: “You are my donors!” to cheers.

-Holly Otterbein

10:31 a.m. in Concord, N.H.

State Senate president boosts Biden

New Hampshire state Senate President Donna Soucy of Manchester tweeted Monday morning that she would vote for Biden, making her the second-highest ranking elected official to weigh in on the race in the first primary state.

"We need a strong, proven leader who can bring our country together and get things done," she said. "Joe has the experience, the tenacity, and the empathy that we need in the White House."

The tweet didn't actually include the word "endorsement." Soucy declined media interviews and there was no immediate plan for her to campaign for the former vice president.

Campaigns spent the better part of a year fighting for Soucy's support. Besides her powerful elected role, Soucy is also a well-respected operative from the state's largest city. Her choice of Biden isn't entirely surprising, because she does significant work for the local chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters as part of her day job. (New Hampshire part-time legislators are paid $100 a year though she gets an extra $25 a year for serving as president of her chamber.) The firefighters union endorsed Biden soon after he launched his presidential campaign.

The most senior New Hampshire Democrat to endorse in the presidential race, Rep. Annie Kuster, is supporting Pete Buttigieg.

-Trent Spiner

10:02 a.m.

Biden's tough morning

Biden began the final day before the New Hampshire primary swatting away questions from CBS about his electability, his sagging poll numbers, his finances and a Republican effort to investigate his son's business dealings in Ukraine.

“You’re always behind the 8-ball when you’re running in New Hampshire if you have two people from the neighboring states,” Biden explained when asked about his standing in the first primary state, where a non-neighboring state politician and former small town mayor, Indiana’s Pete Buttigieg, has surpassed him.

“I feel good about what what we're doing up here,” Biden said.

Asked by CBS’s Gayle King if his campaign is having a “‘Houston we're having a problem moment,” Biden denied it, saying that “no one has ever won the nomination as a Democrat without getting overwhelming support from the Latino community and the African American community. And we’re just getting to the game here.”

But “it's also true that no one's ever won the nomination after finishing out of the top two in Iowa and also out of the top two in New Hampshire, which according to polls is where you're headed,” said CBS’ Tony Dokoupil. “So you're making an electability pitch, if voters from these two states are not saying we want to elect this guy. Why should the other voters out there, listen?”

After Biden repeated his line about non-white voters who overwhelmingly favor him in South Carolina and Nevada, Dokoupil asked about Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and asked if Biden was concerned that Sen. Lindsey Graham told CBS News “the Justice Department is vetting information from Rudy Giuliani about your son's work in Ukraine.”

Biden laughed at the mention of Rudy Giuliani, who has peddled numerous widely discredited conspiracy theories.

“No one has said [Hunter Biden’s] done anything wrong except the thug, Rudy Giuliani,” Biden said. “Come on, Rudy Giuliani? A character witness?”

Asked about reports he was running out of money, Biden denied that, too.

“We've been raising about a half a million dollars a day. We’re doing fine,” Biden said.

-Marc Caputo

8:30 a.m.

Biden campaign looking beyond New Hampshire

Biden senior adviser Symone Sanders told viewers on CNN’s “New Day” Monday morning that the former vice president “will still be in this race” no matter what happens on Tuesday.

“Regardless of what happens, we believe and we have said for a long time that this race absolutely runs through Nevada, South Carolina and Super Tuesday,” Sanders said. “And it would be a mistake for the media to try to count Joe Biden out before other folks in this party have had their chance to have their say in this race.”
“The reality is that since 1992, the Democratic nominee in this party has been the person who has been able to garner a substantial amount of votes from African American voters,” Sanders added later. “You just don't get those votes out of just Iowa and New Hampshire, John. So we're here to say that this process does continue.”

-Quint Forgey