Rubio says will push constitutional convention

According to an average of polling in New Hampshire compiled by Real Clear Politics, Marco Rubio is now at 13.3 percent support in New Hampshire, putting him 13 percentage points behind Donald Trump. “You can’t attack terrorists if you don’t know where they are”.

Trump has publicly avoided discussing the specifics on his national security policies, aside from his call for construction of a wall on the US border with Mexico and his vow to “cut the head off ISIS and take their oil”. “So yeah, we’d make Hillary Clinton compete in New Jersey and in NY”. Christie responded to those comments in a conversation with the newspaper.

While Ted Cruz is spending the week crisscrossing Iowa ahead of that state’s upcoming caucuses, his colleague in the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, is making his first major play for Cruz’s home turf with a campaign rally in Dallas.

“Listen, I think it’s the way you campaign in New Hampshire”, he said. The campaign allocated $1.1 million for Iowa and nearly $1 million for the advertisement in New Hampshire, per Politico.

Front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign, in its first TV ad, begins with photos of President Obama and Hillary Clinton, followed by photos of the San Bernardino attackers laid over police lights.

As Christie sees his stature increase in the GOP race – in terms of his New Hampshire poll numbers and the attention he’s getting from rival Super PACs – it’s worth examining the state of the Rubio campaign four weeks out until Iowa.

Via Eliana Johnson, who reports that these two spots will be rolling out in New Hampshire tomorrow to try to stop Christie before he passes Rubio there as the establishment favorite. “People want to know what their friends are thinking of doing and they talk about it. There’s never a dinner conversation that doesn’t include who you’re thinking about”.

“New Hampshire may be their last hurrah”, said Scott Reed, a veteran GOP consultant based in Washington. Their credit has been downgraded. After images show Christie huddling with Obama after 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, the narrator intones, “One high-tax, Common Core, liberal-energy-loving, Obamacare-Medicaid-expanding president is enough”. If we get frustrated with it, that’s why we have elections.

Frank said he believes Rubio’s momentum in the early primaries could garner him a strong showing in Texas – even if Cruz’s Texan roots keep him at the top of the polls. That state’s primary may be his best shot at a path to the Republican nomination.

For what it’s worth, though, while Christie is too far towards the center for me to support him over, say, Ted Cruz, he does strike me as far more engaging on the stump when I watch his clips from NH than Rubio does.

Presidential candidate Chris Christie speaks at a town hall in New Hampshire. I think this is actually a defensive ad as much as it is an attack ad insofar as Rubio himself is frequently labeled the most Obama-esque candidate in the race. Christie’s record is “weak” and “failed”, the PAC says. “It’s January 4 and this is the first time we’re talking about a Trump ad”.

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… We just had the greatest private sector job growth year New Jersey has had in fifteen years.

Every candidate has a moment, but Christie is perhaps more in need of a second look than most presidential contenders.