Chris Christie is expanding his presidential campaign staff, a sign both that his fundraising has improved and that he is preparing to battle for the Republican nomination beyond the early states. Christie responded to those comments in a conversation with the newspaper.
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“I understand this issue personally, I understand the good, the bad, and the ugly, and every aspect of it”, he said.
The 30-second ad that aired Tuesday, with its prancing music and images of Christie and Obama exchanging smiles and greetings, is part of a flurry of increasingly negative ads targeting voters in the weeks leading up to the state’s primary.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) wants to grow the USA military, revive 9/11-era NSA spying powers and support Saudi Arabia in its escalating war with Iran.
Rubio, who has positioned himself as the national security candidate since the Paris terror attacks, has repeatedly attacked that vote on the campaign trail, saying Cruz and fellow GOP candidate and Sen.
Set up by legendary Republican strategist Lee Atwater to help his candidate George H.W. Bush in the 1988 cycle, SC helped choose the winning candidate in 1996, 2000 and 2008 when Iowa and New Hampshire differed. Without mentioning them by name, Rubio also criticized his Republican rivals Sen. Christie said last Wednesday. Various candidates, with the key exception of Donald Trump, are offering a message of serious leadership, a trait either that too many candidates possess for voters to decide among them or one about which few voters care.
“What happens is people really start to focus on picking a president and I think that will lead to some potential changes in the way things are operating”. But the 2016 race has been dominated instead by personality. With 12 candidates still running and national polling that shows a race in constant flux, many planned to watch the jumbled field settle itself first.
“Politics is amazingly selfish”, Republican political consultant Matt Rexroad said. “It’s about rescuing the country before it goes over the cliff”.
The narrator reads this tagline: “Chris Christie…high taxes…weak economy…scandal…Not what we need in the White House”. Here’s his take on gun rights, entitlement reform and drug policy, in his own words. SC will hold its primary on February 20 after Iowa and New Hampshire have their say. “They’re adjusting to that mood while trying to beat each other”.
“We’re not going to continue to burden law-abiding citizens right to protect their families”, said Rubio. “Our credit has been strengthened; their credit has been downgraded”.
“If we get this election wrong, there may be no going back for this country”.
In New Hampshire the negative ads so far haven’t reached a scathing temperature, Scala said. “But it’s incumbent upon us to highlight that record”.
“These are serious policy disputes and there’s nothing in those ads that is inaccurate – it’s the truth”, Rubio said.
Christie’s team is hitting back.
She even wrapped up the segment by highlighting discussion over what Bill Clinton’s title would be when Hillary became president: “Now the former president also said on Monday that he doesn’t know what he would want to be called if Hillary Clinton does win the White House”.
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And when asked about Kasich, Christie deadpanned: “Kasich”.
