Donald Trump is at an all-time high in Republican support following his victory in the New Hampshire primary. Relaxed, talkative and reflective, he spoke about his debate gaffe, criticisms of him being too scripted and his path to the nomination.
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“You want to have a president who went through adversity in a campaign”, Rubio said.
It sparked questions about whether Rubio had the experience and gravitas to serve as president and gave new attention to his words. Ted Cruz of Texas, Bush and Rubio all got between 10.6 percent and 11.6 percent of the vote – means the race could turn into a long slog for weeks without a clear resolution.
That attention to the first-in-the-nation primary state paid off in December, when Christie won the endorsement of the New Hampshire Union Leader. “Once you get to the winner-take-all states, then it’s about winning”.
“We can win”, Bush said Wednesday in a CNN interview, anticipating a November general election.
“Once the race narrows, the pressure is going to be on him (to detail his views)”.
“Rubio said the chief lesson he learned from the experience was needing to “[bring] down” barriers between him and voters, and more aggressively articulate policy differences between himself and the other candidates. So I’m not going to be a pin cushion for a marshmallow but I’m also not going to spend my time trying to trash other people. While he said Trump has said some “entertaining stuff, some of it is not so entertaining”.
They have all begun speaking events in the next battle state of SC. Jeb Bush was just behind them at eight percent, and Kasich was in last with four.
Christie, the governor of New Jersey, and Fiorina, a former business executive, finished sixth and seventh, respectively, in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Less than a third of voters in either party described themselves as “moderate”. Jeb Bush is trying to beat Marco Rubio in order to seize the so-called “establishment lane”.
He’ll return home to finish his second term as governor of New Jersey, where he faces a slew of unsolved problems and rock-bottom approval ratings from residents who, polls show, feel he neglected the state to pursue his national ambitions.
Chris Christie’s campaign began on June 30, 2015 and ended after a disappointing showing in the New Hampshire primary.
“It’s time for him to man up and step up and stop letting all of his handlers write his speeches and handle it because that’s what you have to do for someone who has never done anything in his life”, Christie said of Rubio.
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With such bleak results, it was unlikely that Christie would have been invited to participate in the next Republican debate on Saturday.
