Chris Christie hits back against recent attacks in new ad

He gained momentum in New Hampshire late in the fall, boosted by some key Granite State endorsements and by his tough attitude toward national security.

First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day’s most important political stories and why they matter. His top strategist, Mike DuHaime, said the reason other candidates are hitting Christie is obvious: “Because we are on the rise and they are not”. So it’s good to be attacked. Christie has been one of Kasich’s closer colleagues among GOP governors. “And yet somehow was radicalized – probably online – and was willing to kill and massacre 14 Americans, and was on his way to killing more people had it not been for the fearless men and women of law enforcement who stopped them”.

But it’s a selective rage: The New Jersey governor has barely laid a glove on Jeb Bush, for instance, and is reluctant to knock frontrunner Donald Trump’s controversial policy proposals.

Carly Fiorina and John Kasich both are in New Hampshire with three appearances each.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is pumping cash into a television ad buy for the first time – ordering $2 million this week in broadcast, cable and radio time in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to Kantar Media/CMAG.

And this week, Florida Sen.

Christie is campaigning hard in New Hampshire, hosting dozens of town halls, and talking up his record of working with a Democratic legislature and helping his state recover from Super Storm Sandy.

In one of its ads, Conservative Solutions, the super PAC supporting Rubio, called Christie one of President Barack Obama’s favorite Republican governors and sought to dent the New Jersey governor’s image as a conservative. “We can’t have another president that supports Common Core or gun control or expanding Obamacare”.

Gov. Chris Christie says he’d have a shot at winning New Jersey in a presidential election matchup with Hillary Clinton. “So I like Chris Christie, I think he’s a talent for sure, and he’s my friend, but I’ve got a record”.

But those ads are likely just the beginning.

‘His state is No. 50 out of 50 economically, ‘ Trump said.

For Christie’s part, the attacks are equal parts validation and opportunity. Their credit has been downgraded. They came as a result of a mess he inherited.

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…

Also, the ads can settle a score from last week, when Christie ripped Rubio for missing a Senate vote on the federal spending bill. “Instead of attacking the leader, Christie is going after those who threaten his chances of being the runner-up”.

“A Trump supporter feel alienated from politics, is very angry about the state of the world….and the place of themselves in it and the place of America in the world”. “It’s deeper than that”, said Burns of the support he’s started to see in the community for the governor.

First, Kasich faces a more pressing dilemma. Christie predicted Monday that the field would be down to four by February 10.

One voter did, however, point out that a Rubio-Clinton presidential debate would require the elimination of a more immediate threat. While Christie declined to give specifics when asked what he would define as “success” in the state, that much he acknowledged.

‘If we are going to turn our frustration and anger with the D.C. insiders, the politicians of yesterday and the carnival barkers of today into something that actually changes American lives, we must elect someone who has been tested, ‘ Christie told the crowd.