New Hampshire Union Leader slams Rubio ahead of primary

“Sen. Rubio knows it. I know it. That’s why he is engaged with me and why I am engaged with him”.

“Certainly for Christie, and I think Bush at this point and Kasich, a no-show in New Hampshire or an under-performance in New Hampshire is very, very troubling given what’s up next on the calendar”, said Hari Sevugan, who worked on the ill-fated 2008 presidential run by Chris Dodd, then a senator from CT. New polls showed Rubio on the ascent both in New Hampshire and nationally, raising his hopes that Republican Party leaders would soon unite behind Rubio in a bid to sideline their two polarizing front-runners: Trump and Texas Sen.

Despite supporting measures like immigration and multilateral free trade deals opposed by the party’s majority conservative base, Rubio portrayed himself as the man who can bring Republicans together. Christie thrives on town halls, taking questions until the audience is spent.

Nevertheless, Rubio said that he “ignored the Establishment” when they told him to wait in line before making a bid for the presidency.

That’s tough. For one thing, as Cullen, the former state GOP official, says – these are not people accustomed to folding their tents.

The New Jersey Governor isn’t convinced that Rubio could take down former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the general election.

“He just doesn’t have any experience”, Christie said Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks during a town hall meeting in Laconia, N.H., Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016. “It is called the Constitution of the United States”. They will be up to $5.2 million in ad spending in New Hampshire to date after their new $100,000 investment. “Maybe he’ll do more than 40 minutes on a little stage telling everybody his canned speech that he’s memorized”, Christie said to reporters, mocking Rubio’s tightly controlled campaign appearances.

“Let me be clear: An attack on this aspect of these candidates’ pro-life positions is an attack on the pro-life movement as a whole”, wrote SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.

“I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not”.

As Rubio patiently posed for pictures with everyone who wanted one, he attempted to connect with those New Hampshire voters who have not yet made up their minds who they’re voting for. And now he sees Rubio potentially peeling away voters crucial to his strategy.

He pushed back on characterizations of him as part of the Republican “establishment”. Following the rally, she was close to crossing off Rubio thanks to Christie’s comments on Marco’s lack of experience as a senator. That has led some to focus their attack on the Florida Senator leading up to the state’s primary next week. In saying that, they acknowledge a shift in his thinking about the race post-Iowa, and these sources tell CNN that should Romney decide to drop his neutrality before Tuesday, the all-but-certain recipient of that blessing would be Marco Rubio. “Rubio came in third in Iowa, and Iowa and New Hampshire are very different, but he didn’t even mention the two other winners”.

Asked specifically whether Rubio and other Republicans need to explain more about what they would do as president, Kasich responded, “Pass”. The Democrats do not want to run against me.

They said senior aides to Bush held conference calls for donors on Tuesday to reassure them, offering an upbeat message about Bush’s finances and ground game in New Hampshire and a determination to press on.