Marco Rubio is a United States Senator from Florida.
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Cruz and Rubio, meanwhile, aren’t focusing exclusively on New Hampshire, a strategy that paid off for both in Iowa and could pay dividends in South Carolina’s February 20 primary.
Donald Trump has been dominating the field in New Hampshire for months while Marco Rubio has tried to consolidate support from mainstream Republicans after his strong finish last week in Iowa. But on Tuesday night, after finishing fifth in New Hampshire, he told supporters he regretted his debate performance.
Citing every precinct reporting, Fox News’ website accidentally published election results declaring Trump the victor with 28 percent support and 14 delegates. The Granite State heads to the polls to vote on Tuesday. The Democrats’ Clinton-Sanders duel is veering into gender politics.
Trump spent the final campaign hours insulting his rivals in his familiar style.
RICK WILKING/REUTERS Donald Trump gives a pair of thumbs up gestures as he enters the Verizon Wireless Arena for a campaign event in Manchester, N.H. on Monday.
If polls are to be considered, Rubio’s performance in the debate may well have sunk his prospects in Tuesday’s primary.
Christie pointed to his experience in being a New Jersey governor and a former federal prosecutor as proof of his qualifications to be president. “We can’t afford to have a president who melts”.
The episode was such a shock that not even Mr. Rubio seemed to understand the gravity of the situation as he left the stage at St. Anselm College just after 10 on Saturday night. Ted Cruz on Monday, defended the incident in interviews on Tuesday, as New Hampshire voters took to the polls for the first-in-the-nation primary.
Overall on Google, the top searched Republican candidates are Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, and Kasich. The senator finished second to Clinton in the leadoff Iowa caucuses by the narrowest of margins.
LifeZette has been on the ground in New Hampshire since the end of January. But a big loss to Sanders, an underdog candidate who describes himself as a democratic socialist, would be an embarrassment for Clinton.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is avoiding making predictions as voters head to the polls in the New Hampshire primary, instead, focusing on his economic plans for the country. What are stores like on Christmas Eve in New Hampshire? He blasted what he said was Trump’s proclivity for “insulting women, castigating Hispanics, ridiculing the disabled and calling American POWs losers”.
‘Why do you want to put me back in the closet?’ the man, Timothy Kierstead, asked the Republican presidential hopeful during a tense exchange inside the Puritan Backroom diner.
“This is my 72nd day in the state, I think I’ve done enough to do well here”, said Christie at a local elementary school, where he was greeted by dozens of sign-toting supporters.
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“They’re scared of him”, Bush said of the other GOP candidates.
