For Bush, and at least two other GOP contenders, it’s also about having been a governor, and about having had to solve problems rather than advance an ideology. Understanding people’s anger, but showing a way out, not just repeating the anger over and over. “When you have close to 10 candidates competing, with a high turn-out state, with last minute decisions being made by voters, we have no idea who’s going to come in first, second and third”. Her presence on the campaign will be more strategic, analysts say. As we have seen in the debates, he is not exactly a master of the frontal assault.
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Nothing bespeaks “establishment” more than a dynasty. “Bush can financially survive a loss in New Hampshire and I believe there is personal animosity between the master and the apprentice between Bush and Rubio”.
Heading into New Hampshire, the race for the nomination of the once-genteel Republican Party seems to have entered a kind of Mad Max phase.
“People like Sen. Gregg and myself – yes, of course”, Morse says.
“He’s attacking me. So does that count, or is this just only a one-way street?”
KELLY: All right, Erick Erickson, thank you. As he loves to remind people, he’s better on the counterattack than he is on the straight-out offensive-and he’s likely to get the chance to put those talents to good use given many of his Republican rivals would love to try to deliver a knockout blow before the billionaire can rebound with a potentially race-altering victory in New Hampshire.
It’s why New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is mocking Rubio as “the boy in the bubble” and telling voters the young senator has accomplished nothing in the Senate. In Iowa, as you know, he came in sixth – just 2.8 percent of the vote.
Kasich, who is faring the best in the polls among the governors and has spent a significant portion of his campaigning thus far in New Hampshire – his one hundredth rally is scheduled for Friday – has refrained from direct attacks on Rubio, vowing for a positive campaign much like that of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. “I will grow the conservative movement and the Republican Party”.
Zeiler was at a Ted Cruz rally in Hooksett, and with less than a week until the primary he says he’s still looking for a Republican candidate to support. New Hampshire…I trust you all.
Christie must have a boffo debate performance Saturday night or he’s nearly certainly history. “It’s bad”, she said, referencing the Fox News host who Trump has gone after.
But for Bush, Kasich, and Christie, it may be now or never. Christie has said he needs to beat both Bush and Kasich to sustain his campaign. Bush regularly boasts that he’s the only candidate willing to take Trump head-on, though other candidates, especially Ted Cruz, have started mounting attacks as well. It showed that Rubio, now at 18 percent, got a seven-point bounce following his third-place finish in Iowa. They applauded at his applause lines.
Catholic presidential hopeful Chris Christie is claiming opponent Catholic senator Marco Rubio is too pro-life.
The battleground was a snowy one in New Hampshire Friday. Cullen says that’s a big question facing Rubio this week.
At his town hall events, Bush carefully answers every question, often in detail, describing himself a proud “policy wonk”.
In New Hampshire, the friendlier tone is what he plans to project right up until the end.
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Barbara Bush initially declined to show her true feelings about Trump, the man who’s been tearing into her son for more than six months as someone who’s “dumb as a rock” and “low energy”.
