Trump maintains a commanding lead in New Hampshire polls despite his decision not to follow the traditional rules of campaigning in the first primary state. It may explain his nearly unnerving calm as polls show him creeping upward, possibly into second place, behind Trump.
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Christie found a new fan in Janet St. Jean, who attended a town hall Monday in Hooksett – where Christie asked whether a young woman who questioned his handling of flooding in New Jersey wanted him to “go down there with a mop”.
The attacks are coming from all sides. “Three weeks ago they weren’t spending millions on TV against us”.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich, right, answers a question as (L-R) Sen. Ran …
Ryan, who is also steering a super PAC supporting Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, in the presidential race, said the anti-Kasich ads were unrelated to Huckabee’s campaign. Christie blatantly goes after his rivals, while Kasich professes positivity, leaving the trash talk to his campaign staff and the outside group backing him.
“They’re all shooting each other up so much that none of them are going to create any distance between themselves”, Dennehy said.
And some voters say the negativity is a turnoff.
An Iowan at the town-hall meeting ventured that Trump would be having a drink by himself during the debate.
“You want to trump Trump on immigration”, Rubio said to Cruz, who was not amused, calling Rubio in response “very charming” and “very smooth” before adding that he’d honored his campaign commitments in a way Rubio hadn’t.
Judith McKenna, 66, said she emailed the Bush campaign to complain after receiving recorded phone calls promoting his candidacy and “trashing all the other candidates”.
In this January 27, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is airing 30-minute television programs in every Iowa television market this weekend. In 1952, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who didn’t leave Paris and his North Atlantic Treaty Organisation assignment, defeated “Mr. Republican”, the Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, who had campaigned in the state; in 1964, Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador to Vietnam, was not on the ballot but had enough write-in votes to defeat the Republican front-runners Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, which said less about Lodge, who remained a passive bystander, and more about Republican dissatisfaction with the choices the party faced-an early warning of electoral disaster that November. Columbus Business First reported that the governor told a New Hampshire campaign crowd, “I’m not playing around with this”. Data from a recent UNH poll shows that just 31 percent of GOP voters have “definitely decided” on a candidate.
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A number of voters suggested it was likely they would change their minds before primary day. The result is that many candidates only have to worry about keeping their own base happy rather than appeal to a broader electorate. “I consider myself the ‘Prince of Light and Hope,’ and I don’t spend all my time getting people riled up about how bad everything is”, Kasich told the radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I have a big Carly sign in my yard right now”, said David French, 75, of Hampton Falls, N.H. But French, a retired businessman, said he was “still up in the air” and was interested in candidates with gubernatorial experience.
