Marco Rubio with 13 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 13 percent and Texas Sen.
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“If you reward those folks who don’t show up here, there is no reason for New Hampshire to be first”, Christie told voters Friday morning in Durham, urging them to cast aside Trump, Cruz and Rubio. Ted Cruz, who had bested him in Iowa, but against Jeb Bush as well.
Christie was praised for his performance in Saturday’s debate, where he went after Rubio and said he was not qualified to be president. “Trump faced fresh criticism of his call for interrogating some foreign prisoners with tactics even harsher than waterboarding, which President Barack Obama halted after taking office”.
“The fact is, he’s never accomplished anything of any note in the United States Senate”, Christie said of Rubio.
A clearly rattled Rubio responded by delivering the same line about Obama not once, but twice.
Trump may have come late to the game, but it’s this type of up-close interaction that New Hampshire’s fierce primary defenders say is valuable regardless of Tuesday’s outcome. “The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisers gave him”. “There it is, everybody”.
An earlier report in a New Hampshire paper said that Sanders had used the images of pastors and veterans in his fliers.
“We will do well here in New Hampshire and move on to South Carolina”, Rubio said on CBS. A strong second place in the Granite State would enhance Rubio’s case that he is best-positioned to consolidate opposition to Trump and Cruz. Marco Rubio at the moment.
Now, after what many are depicting as a bungled performance at Saturday’s GOP debate, Rubio finds himself on the defensive.
“Even with an infusion of new money, there’s no switch to flip to prepare a campaign virtually overnight for the battle for 674 delegates [on] March 1 and what comes quickly afterwards”, said Henry Barbour, a Republican operative from Mississippi.
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And, right now, the favorite is Trump.
The Democratic race between Clinton and Sanders is also getting increasingly testy, with a clash over the former NY senator’s ties to Wall Street and her campaign’s attacks on his foreign policy. “I’m going to say it again”. Trump noted that Cruz refused to answer the question. Though Trump’s GOP opponents were mainly focusing their attacks on each other, Trump and Bush pulled no punches in dueling television interviews.
This, as Donald Trump spent much of the day criticizing Jeb Bush.
Trump scoffed, saying Bush “wants to be a tough guy”. Bush pointed out that Trump tried to take property for an “elderly woman” in Atlantic City for a casino parking lot. For the most part, Trump was content to lay back and let those chasing him in the preference polls fight amongst themselves.
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The former secretary of state claimed a razor-thin victory in the leadoff Iowa caucuses last Monday but is trying to prevent a blowout that might reset the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. “He says nasty things and I put him down on the dais and he goes away like a little sheep”. But the brash-talking governor got a colder reception later outside a Hampstead coffee shop, where he slipped out the back door to avoid a group of home-state critics with signs reading “New Jersey’s Biggest Loser”. They pleaded with her to straighten out for the good of her son.
