Ted Cruz becoming the Republican presidential nominee increases. Marco Rubio & Jeb Bush weathered a chilly, persistent rain within the Democratic-leaning mountain hamlets of northern New Hampshire, each one pursuing a special political goal.
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Perhaps it still will be as voters begin to look for the kind of serious leader who can take charge during perilous times. Conservative US Senator for South Carolina, Lindsey Graham has announced that he will step out of the race.
Rubio, polling among the top three Republicans in the race, had to counter the perception that he’s been a lazy campaigner who hasn’t sufficiently courted voters used to a personal touch.
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Yet when he did try to win over one local New Hampshire newspaper’s endorsement in a short meeting this week, he didn’t have much success. I worked closely near governors for all those years that I was there. Topping the list: “The Don, of course”, he stated, referencing to Trump. “I wanted to see him in person”. Rubio’s communication’s director Alex Conant told TheDC that the campaign has nothing to say about Rubio’s efforts to woo McCain and Romney. Recent Republican nominating history, indeed, would suggest that it’s impossible to win the nomination after losing both Iowa and New Hampshire. Marco Rubio for president Tuesday, joining two other members of the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation in supporting the first-term Florida senator. But with its potential to significantly winnow the field, the sense of urgency among those who’ve placed almost all of their bets on the Granite State was palpable. We haven’t been able to find him.
The governor launched into an attack on Rubio for missing a Senate vote last week on the $1.15tn budget, a jibe he repeated in a pair of television interviews on Tuesday before going after Rubio’s style of campaigning.
He also made several retail stops – at a diner, a general store and a candy shop – taking questions from patrons, chatting up the owners about local business and competition, and keeping an eye on his young children. Yet neither his physical presence nor his constant appearance in political ads on television has given him a boost. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, was an early supporter of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
This is not a serious man that has serious plans. “I promise I won’t talk about Trump again”, he said.
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“I think the establishment Republicans who are pitching the theory that Republicans must embrace amnesty in order to win Hispanic votes – and in order to have a chance at winning the election – are engaged in fiction writing and fraud on a massive level”, Cruz said. “He needs to show more of what his brother had”.
