“I think in New Hampshire she’s poised to become a force”, said Scala, who said he thinks she’s weeks from top-tier status.
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There was more. On Thursday morning, the camera-loving former reality TV star told MSNBC that he felt he’d actually received too much air time. She’s not alone in honing in on a Granite State victory. Hearing the present and former governors – Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, John Kasich of Ohio and Scott Walker of Wisconsin – talk up their state achievements was to be expected, but they would have been more helpful by telling voters what they would do on current, national issues. He attacks Trump for being juvenile, but this soap opera, if it hurts Trump, helps others, not Rand Paul.
Money, in turn, means the ability to add more staff from candidates who, like former Texas Governor Rick Perry before them, will soon be dropping out of the race.
By next summer, each party will have a presidential nominee who will do battle in the race for the White House. “Typically you pick up some staff from other campaigns as you move along”.
CNN live streams the second GOP presidential debate on September 16.
Fiorina has strong staffing at an affiliated super-PAC, which has performed certain key activities at arm’s length, including event staffing and the securing of endorsements. Republicans should have criticized Obama for evading the constitutional requirement for two-thirds treaty ratification in the U.S. Senate. That program drew 16.8 million viewers. Sure, and maybe Putin will give him a pony, too.
Fiorina dominated the middle portion of the debate, showing command of military figures, slamming Clinton for what she called a lack of accomplishments, delivering an emotional call for increased drug treatment as she recalled losing a child to addiction and hitting Trump over his business practices.
With interest high, the CNN debate stretched to three hours.
“She got the better of him last night”, O’Donnell told Fox News.
Should she choose to engage in the television ad war, she’ll nearly certainly need the kind of financial muscle that a super-PAC, which can accept unlimited donations, would bring.
At the time, early in Bush’s first term, Trump was working with the tribe on a deal to manage what’s now the Hard Rock Casino. “Carly’s life and leadership experiences”, CARLY for America’s communications director, Katie Hughes, said. Similarly, I am confident Carly Fiorina knows she is not ready to be president, for it seems clear that she is running to be someone’s vice president so she can learn. In her defense, Fiorina notes that her tenure was a wrenching time for the whole industry – the tech bubble had just burst, and while HP continues to struggle, many other iconic companies from that period went out of business altogether. Like the consummate sales professional she is, Fiorina came armed with pithy, precise answers.
Trump responded, “I think she’s got a attractive face, and I think she’s a handsome woman” – a line that won few cheers, if any at all. He has failed to expand beyond country club Republicans and the donor class. Even as he again proclaims, “I’m my own man”, he admits his foreign policy advisers are drawn from “41” and “43” – jargon for his father and brother.
One of the questions asked in Tuesday’s poll was whether the 37 percent of respondents who said they’d settled on a candidate would be open to later changing their minds.
Fiorina still faces hurdles, of course: She could founder as she tries to build her staff, or find donors unwilling to transfer their allegiances early enough to make a difference before the the big primaries.
Was this a sign that Trump had simply grown bored during a debate that went on far longer than anyone expected? So Christie tried a different tack, asking for the camera to be turned to the audience in his opening statement to symbolize it was not in fact “all about me”.
Speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for example, she rattled off an emphatic bill of particulars.
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“When (Trump) says something he does it. He walks the talk”.
