What that means, he and his advisers won’t say.
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But most of the attention will be focused on two large video screens that will show results from the Iowa caucuses.
Ted Cruz is a story.
“Marco Rubio an impressive third so far with 18 percent”, CNN reported. He almost beat Trump. He heads to New Hampshire with momentum and a conventional wisdom that now pegs him as the mainstream candidate most likely to succeed.
Before any Iowa caucus votes had been cast Monday, Gov. Christie shifted his focus back to New Hampshire, selling himself ahead of next Tuesday’s primary as a leader with the experience – and readiness to fight – he argued his rivals lack.
John Kasich’s hope for the GOP presidential nomination has long rested in New Hampshire, but Monday’s Iowa caucus results could challenge that.
Kasich denied that the state waited to tell residents about the issue.
“That’s fairly easy”, he said.
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“Nobody in the country knows who I am. The people on this call will help determine what that is”, he said.
Iowa got its head start in 1972 when rules changes in the Democratic Party pushed what was then a little known, somewhat arcane process, ahead of the traditional first in the nation New Hampshire primary. But Kasich’s grasp on second place could be in jeopardy if U.S. Sen.
For weeks Christie has been leveling attacks at Rubio in his town halls around New Hampshire and Iowa. “We look forward to doing well around the country”.
The easiest and unlikeliest scenario.
“I’m not humiliated”, Trump later told the crowd jammed into a cavernous athletic club, some watching from an overflow room.
Borges, and spokeswoman Brittany Warner, and state Rep. Niraj Antani, R-Miamisburg, are headed to New Hampshire this week and former Centerville Mayor Mark Kingseed is already there. Again, this is unlikely.
Path 2: Finish first in the establishment lane. But they are being careful not to set expectations for such a finish. Or, if Trump’s appeal was his ability to “make things work”, Rath said, some of his voters might support Kasich.
Opinion polls before the official vote, projected him to win less than 17 per cent. Rubio, 44, appears to have stolen votes from people who couldn’t quite follow through on voting for the controversial Trump. And most voters who have Kasich on their short lists this month haven’t been considering Rubio. The key to this path is beating Rubio.
At an event Saturday, he made it clear that New Hampshire’s primary could be his last stand.
This year, Gov. Kasich and all the Republicans who run OH won’t be the fire-wall to a first-term for whomever Democrats pick, Vermont Sen. With 99% of precincts reporting, it is Cruz 28%, Trump 24%, Rubio 23%. It also would prove that his message of compassion and pragmatism over anger and gridlock was poorly timed to this electoral climate. “Although a Rubio-Kasich or Kasich-Rubio ticket could make for an interesting General Election”.
Cruz has made no secret he’s betting on the “SEC primary” to give him enough delegates to become the Republican nominee.
But Kasich doesn’t sound eager for such an exercise.
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Asked if he liked what he was hearing from Mr. Rubio, Mr. Scott said, “I do”, adding that the Florida senator was “taking the right steps in the right direction”.
