Christie set to address GOP anger, target Trump

The advertisement will begin airing on Tuesday in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, where voters hold intra-party votes on February 1 and February 9. This, as contentious issues over terrorism, security, civil liberties and gun ownership reverberate, giving candidates plenty to argue about.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. But they are not equal in that regard.

Santorum, who narrowly won the Iowa GOP caucus in 2012, now trails Cruz badly in the all-important state, where Cruz has worked to consolidate Santorum’s former coalition of evangelical and conservative voters.

“As voters get closer to actually voting, it seems that Trump’s more outlandish and impossible ideas will lose some luster and Christie wants to be the alternative”, Hale said.

It should also be noted that two previous polls saw Cruz leading Trump with significant numbers, which could mean that Iowa believes in Cruz as the most efficient candidate among his co-Republicans.

And Mike Huckabee is also in Iowa Monday.

Rubio’s aides dismissed the strategy, with his New Hampshire-based senior adviser Jim Merrill writing on Twitter that the ad is “redefining dumb”.

The anti-Rubio ad is paid for mostly by Robert Mercer, a NY hedge fund magnate who is contributing to a super political action committee that faces no campaign finance restrictions and has pledged support to Cruz.

Others seize on their symbolic victory, as underdog Obama did spectacularly in 2008 when he bested Clinton in Iowa on his run to the White House. “That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until we can figure out what is going on”. The comments threatened the party’s drive to attract minorities, an effort already complicated by Trump’s negativity toward Mexican immigrants. The decision to air television ads – which Trump hinted at for months, though the billionaire real estate magnate has has been loath to spend more than he deems necessary – represents a tightly produced new act for a candidate who has fed largely off free media attention, the Post said. But the fact that Trump holds a double-digit lead over his nearest competitor in the New Hampshire polls does raise the question of whether his ascendancy results from an unusual political dynamic this cycle or whether New Hampshire is subtly changing its own outlook. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida governor Jeb Bush – might also each have voter databases “but they could all be seen as interchangeable votes for one another”, said Scala. Manchester previously served in Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration and was a regional field director for the Massachusetts Republican Party, according to the campaign.

Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont hopes an upset in Iowa and a victory in the New Hampshire primary a week later will dent the apparent inevitability of front-runner Hillary Clinton.

From the minute Donald Trump announced his candidacy by declaring that Mexicans are criminals and rapists, many political pundits and progressive advocates have been waiting for his demise.

“He had a very narrow window – now he has got one of the best shots to win it”, said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell.