“What happened on Saturday night was not about me or him, it was about our country”, Christie said.
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Rubio’s fortunes shifted after a Saturday night debate in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped him for delivering the same talking point about President Barack Obama four times.
Donald Trump said, Mr. Bush is spending $100-M on ads, including $25-M on “negative ads to attack me, and every time he does a negative ad my poll numbers go up”.
The New Hampshire campaign is a chance for Bush to rehabilitate his badly bruised candidacy; a victory here could theoretically clear that crowded field of establishment candidates in the race and give him momentum before nominating contests in SC and Nevada.
Christie and his fellow governors need that to be the case, given that they’ve staked their White House hopes on New Hampshire. The two sharply attacked each other during Saturday’s debate, and Bush called Trump a loser on the campaign trail Sunday.
New Hampshire doesn’t make a pollster’s job easy: almost 50 percent of the state’s registered voters are independent, which means they can choose to vote for either party in the primary.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump holds a 10 point lead in New Hampshire over his 2016 GOP presidential rivals, but Florida Senator Marco Rubio appears to be picking up steam.
On Sunday, during one campaign stop, someone placed copies of the Boston Herald’s front page showing Rubio’s picture with one word, “Choke”, under the windshield wipers of cars.
The governor himself acknowledged the role that New Hampshire will play in his campaign.
The Boston Globe reports a new Suffolk University poll finds Trump at 29 percent and Rubio now all the way up to second place with 19 percent of the vote.
Christie received an endorsement last Thursday from a popular governor, Gov. Charlie Baker of Maryland, according to Politico. Especially with the brush-off “I respect your view” line to the guy whose marriage Rubio just said he thinks should be illegal.
“I would like to win but I don’t know that it is necessary”.
Rubio senior adviser Todd Harris said the candidate’s repetition underscores his laser focus on upending the Obama administration’s agenda.
“I’m going to keep saying that because not only is it the truth, it’s at the core of our candidacy”, he said.
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“There isn’t anyone on this team that doesn’t think we haven’t done as much as we possibly could do”, Kasich said.
