Who will gang up on Marco Rubio?
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The New Jersey governor suggested Rubio was unfairly benefiting from a media bump in the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses. Obama wants to fundamentally change America, Rubio said, because the president views the United States as an arrogant global power needing to be cut down to size.
“I’m proud of my record in public service”, Rubio said Friday on NBC News, citing his years in the Senate and as Florida’s state House speaker.
Jealous was the group’s youngest leader when he was hired as its president at age 35 in 2008. He predicted “huge progress” in SC, which votes February 27. His final pitch in New Hampshire is about his faith he can win the general election. Trump is at 36 percent; Rubio at 15 percent; and Cruz at 14 percent. That phrase has since gone viral on social media.
This is hardly the first skirmish between Trump – who’s repeatedly called the former Florida governor “low energy” – and Bush – who called Trump “a loser” this week following his second-place finish in Iowa on Monday.
It was the sharpest, most caustic debate yet for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Clinton and Sanders are both flush with campaign cash.
“Secretary Clinton does represent the establishment”, he said.
Bush, who considers himself the most pro-life candidate, believes in all three exceptions. Cruz’s team also is banking on a sharp decline in black and Hispanic support for the 2016 Democratic nominee. Trump knocks Cruz… you get the point.
Since Iowa, where Bush placed sixth, Bush has been traveling across New Hampshire, diligently trying to compare Rubio and Sen.
David has spoofed the Vermont senator as a passionate presidential candidate screaming of revolution and Sanders has happily played along. The senator replied, “I am Larry David”.
Typically a low-key presence, Carson has grown angry this week about Cruz’s campaign in Iowa, which Carson accused of playing “dirty tricks” for claiming before the caucuses that he was suspending his campaign.
Less than 3 percent of likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters listed abortion policy as the most important issue facing the country according to a Suffolk University poll taken last month. No other candidate scored more than 5% in either poll.
One candidate who plans to avoid clashes is Kasich, the OH governor, who says he is campaigning from the “sunny side of the street”. Kasich told him his achievements aren’t limited to OH, he was successful in Washington as well as a congressman.
“I’d like to remind you George Bush came out of Iowa with “Big Mo” and then there was no “mo” after that”, she said, talking about George H.W. Bush’s 1980 victory in Iowa, only to lose the nomination to Ronald Reagan.
Christie and Kasich have largely pinned their campaigns on New Hampshire. “Wait your time!” Kasich told him. But signaling a line of attack the candidate may pursue Saturday, Trump adviser Stephen Miller excoriated Rubio’s immigration position in an interview with Breitbart News on Friday, calling him a “front man for the open-borders syndicate”.
Duprey joins Sen. Kelly Ayotte in speaking out against the decision.
Cruz and Carson’s fates hinge less on the outcome in New Hampshire. He pleaded this week with New Hampshire voters to rally behind him. At a recent gathering in Nashua put on by the state party, she was the only candidate to receive a standing ovation following her remarks.
At a town hall event at New England College in Henniker, N.H., Thursday evening, Christie continued his attacks on Rubio, telling the crowd, “You can like Marco Rubio, he’s a perfectly nice guy, but you don’t just run for president because you see a political opportunity”. Another 26% say they are leaning toward a candidate and 45% say they have definitely made up their minds.
New Hampshire voters are staunchly protective of the state’s status as home of the first presidential primary.
Bush said it wasn’t true, but said he was glad he wasn’t in a war of words with Christie. Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is protesting loudly at her exclusion.
Asked whether he would press this attack in the debate, Christie replied, “If I get the chance to, I may”.
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Williams also says Kasich can “rise above the din of toxicity infecting our national dialogue” and appeal to a wide array of voters within what he sees as a divided Republican Party, which he sees as “in trouble”.
