Rubio took the opportunity to repeat his claims about Christie, namely that he donated money to Planned Parenthood, supported Sonia Sotomayor, and supported gun control. Christie has picked up key endorsements, risen in the polls and become the focus of sharp attacks from rival camps. So clearly this is part of the strategy for turning that around. Christie, after all, made a forceful case in New Hampshire last week that the GOP will lose in November if the party fails to unite due to intra-party warfare.
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Nationally, Christie is at 3 percent and tied for seventh place, according to a CBS/New York Times poll.
Speaking on Fox News on Friday, Christie said Rubio’s allegations were “absolutely untrue”.
The comments came at last night’s South Carolina Republican debate when he was asked about how important it was to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power.
Christie flat out denied that he supported Sotomayor (even though he clearly did) in a blistering counterattack in which he suggested Rubio was a senator who gets away with “talking so much that nobody can ever keep up with what you’re saying is accurate or not”.
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CRUZ: “President Obama’s preparing to send $100 billion or more to the Ayatollah Khamenei”. In 2009, Christie was quoted by the Star-Ledger and PolitickerNJ as saying Sotomayor “would not have been my choice”, but adding, “I support her appointment”, describing judicial appointments as “consequences” of elections. “I don’t think it’ll be much of a boost for the Republicans because it was so subtle”. The newspapers at the time got it wrong, he said. Republicans concerned about losing control of the Senate already wonder whether vulnerable GOP senators – Illinois’ Mark Kirk, Ohio’s Rob Portman, Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte – want either Trump or Cruz at the top of the ticket, or even campaigning in their states.
“If I am elected president, we will defeat radical Islamic terrorism, and we will utterly destroy ISIS”, he said. “That’s a great news”, he said. He said the key to approaching Syria is to bringing together other Arab countries that believe the Islamic State is a threat to combat the terrorists. He lives in the world as he wishes it was, not the world as it really is. Tell the families of the 14 dead folks in San Bernardino that we are overestimating them and tell the families of the folks who were killed in Turkey that we are overestimating them.
Prior to the State of the Union, the White House effectively smacked down Christie’s critiques, exposing them as politically-motivated, and lacking in specific alternatives.
Christie on PP in 1994: “I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution”.
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“A lot of people in this room have shown the courage to set aside partisan differences and achieve real progress”, he said.
