And this week, Florida Sen.
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“When New Jerseyans look at Chris Christie, why do so many want to leave?” the narrator asks.
SOUND OFF: What do you think about Chris Christie’s chances to win the Republican presidential nomination? “We can’t have another president that supports Common Core or gun control or expanding Obamacare”. The political action committee then unveiled a website on Wednesday, christierecord.com, to make its case against Christie with three words below his name: “High taxes, weak economy, scandal”.
“Christie is strategically using attack mode on the opponents where those attacks can move the dial in a meaningful way, ” Hale said. Nevertheless, Christie refused to sign up for Trump’s aggressive new effort to cast doubt on Cruz’s eligibility because of his birth in Canada.
“It’s no good it’s no fair and they’re not going to screw around with the Second Amendment”, Trump said. “I’m not anxious about that”. Christie has been one of Kasich’s closer colleagues among GOP governors.
“Mr. No Drama Obama, well, that will not be the nickname of the Christie White House Administration, I can guarantee you”, Christie said, prompting laughter from the audience at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Now that the holiday season has passed, campaigns are starting a blitz of television ads that will blanket the airwaves in Iowa and New Hampshire until the first votes are cast in those two states in early February. So why is he training his fire at Christie and not front-runner Trump or Texas Sen.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday, Rubio said that he had watched the ads, though he had nothing to do with producing them. It’s a not so-subtle dig at the outsiders in the race, as well as the senators, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who he targeted repeatedly during his nine-event, four-day swing through the state to kick off 2016.
The stakes are high for Chris Christie in New Hampshire – and, he’s warning his fellow Republicans, the stakes are high for them, too. “They cannibalize one another”.
“Do not be fooled: any significant division within the Republican Party leads to the same very bad result – Hillary Rodham Clinton in January of 2017 taking the oath of office as president of the United States”, the ad shows Christie as saying. Bush and Kasich, both with executive experience, have recently criticized Christie’s stewardship of New Jersey and his conservative credentials.
Rubio has clearly moved ahead of Jeb Bush as the establishment candidate, a position Christie appears to working towards.
“This guy’s been spoon-fed every victory he’s ever had in his life”, he said. “I think the reason they’re coming after me now is because I’m doing well”. The attack has become a regular part of Rubio’s stump.
“The fact is that their messages are not working”, he said.
“He has mostly ignored Jeb Bush because Bush is self-destructing on his own”.
These days, according to the Real Clear Politics average in New Hampshire, Christie has essentially pulled himself into a three-way tie for second place. As you said, Trump is still on top, right? Finish poorly, and there likely is no plausible path forward, he added.
But Trump refrained from repeating comments he made just prior to the evening rally, insinuating GOP rival Ted Cruz would face years of lawsuits if elected president, due to his Canadian birth.
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Gowdy, who did not support the Gang of Eight, responded, “I don’t know anyone who has not changed his or her opinion somewhat on immigration over the last two years”.
