Echoing a theme of renewed American confidence that Rubio’s team has sought to make a campaign refrain, Rubio declared, “I will be a President who doesn’t just believe America is the greatest country in the world; I will be a president who acts like it”.
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As to Christie’s pathway forward, it’s not unlike many of his rivals. Could it be that the pundits were wrong again?
The professor of a Christian college who asserted Christians and Muslims worship the same God said Wednesday that her views are in line with the suburban Chicago college’s mission and disputed university accounts of… He denied that he was just playing for respectability and insisted he could win the nomination.
Christie – who has not hesitated to trash-talk his rivals, either – attributed the attention to his increasingly solid position in New Hampshire. Christie admits he was pro-choice back then but says his views began to change during his wife’s pregnancy in 1995 when he heard a beating heart.
Quite a contrast to April 2014, when Politico ran a piece headlined “Chris Christie Is Toast” (this in reference to the Bridgegate scandal, though no evidence surfaced of his complicity).
Or last February, when Times columnist Gail Collins wrote: “Chris Christie is political toast”.
Porter likes a lot of things Donald Trump is saying, but said he thinks Christie is more suited to being a leader.
Echoing previous attacks on Rubio’s career, Christie told Ingraham that the ads are a sign of Rubio’s lack of political know-how.
Groups allied with Rubio have panned Christie’s record in ads. And that’s why he is suddenly taking a bunch of slings and arrows.
The ad was packed with photos of Christie and Obama from the president’s 2012 visit to New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Sandy – a late election moment of comity between the two that many in the conservative blogosphere refuse to let Christie live down. The Florida senator mentioned Christie’s support for Common Core education standards, an assault weapons ban and gun control, as well as a donation to Planned Parenthood. Christie whacked him hard in response yesterday, telling the Washington Post that the senator is “trying to slime his way to the White House”.
Every candidate has a moment, but Christie is perhaps more in need of a second look than most presidential contenders.
But Christie’s record as governor of New Jersey is a vulnerability. And Bush’s Super PAC has a “Three Governors” ad contrasting his Florida record with those of Christie and Kasich.
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On a recent afternoon, about a dozen Bush staff and volunteers gathered in a brightly lit campaign office in a strip mall near Des Moines where they spent hours calling potential supporters, logging commitment levels to Bush in an online database and writing follow-up notes. But in Trump’s case, it probably helps. “We must elect someone who actually knows how to get things done”. His message to Republicans is simple: This has been an entertaining campaign, but now it’s time to get serious. He implicitly conceded the point, telling reporters: “The idea is, if you do well in Iowa and New Hampshire, you will have momentum, and I’m not anxious about what will happen after that”.
