After Debate Criticism, Marco Rubio Campaigns in New Hampshire

Speaking to MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday in New Hampshire, which is set to host the country’s second nomination contest Tuesday, Bush referred to Rubio as “a bright, charismatic leader” but described his leadership skills as a “work in progress”.

Rubio is placing second in the latest New Hampshire polls. Ohio Gov. Kasich came next at 15 percent, followed by former Fla. In total, Republican candidates and super PACs ran at least 16 different television ads attacking Trump that aired almost 2,500 times.

“Voters across the country and especially here in New Hampshire got to hear me say repeatedly the truth: that Barack Obama is trying to redefine the role of government in our country and America’s role in the world”, Rubio said Monday on “CBS This Morning”.

As voters in Iowa headed to the caucuses, the Cruz campaign sent a message urging Ben Carson supporters to switch their support to Cruz because Carson was dropping out of the race.

At the heart of the battle between Rubio and Chris Christie, John Kasich and Jeb Bush is whether the freshman Florida senator has the experience and policy depth to serve as president – or whether he’s simply a well-spoken lightweight.

GOP voter Judy McKenna, 66, had been leaning toward Rubio, but said she was “disappointed” in his debate performance.

During Saturday night’s ABC debate, Cruz said; “My political team saw CNN’s report, breaking news, and they forwarded that news to our volunteers – it was being covered on live television…”

“For those of you who are still deciding, still shopping, I hope I can close the deal”, Clinton said at Manchester Community College, campaigning with her raspy-voiced husband and daughter Chelsea. The exchange played into the New Jersey Governor’s argument that his opponent is a slave to talking points.

Trump has held a commanding lead in New Hampshire preference polls for months.

Rubio has tried to turn the episode, which is still sending shockwaves through the campaign two days later, into an attack on journalists he claimed were desperate to halt his momentum and keen to defend the President – and defiantly rolled out exactly the same line he deployed in the debate.

“People like you put me on”.

“I would like to win, but I don’t know that it is necessary”.

Responding to a volley of critical tweets and comments from Jeb Bush, Donald Trump on Monday called his rival – the son of one president and brother of another – an “embarrassment to his family”.

Trump had a scathing response in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “He’s a stiff”. “Go to Jeb today and ask him how the joy is going”, Christie said, a reference to Bush’s promise last summer to be “the joyful candidate” among Republicans. “He doesn’t have what it takes”. He’s a sad person who has gone absolutely insane. “I mean, this guy is a nervous wreck”. But among all NY voters, Sanders edges out Clinton, with 51 percent viewing him favorably compared to Clinton’s 50 percent. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said over the weekend that there was “a special place in hell” for women who don’t help women, while writer and famed feminist Gloria Steinem suggested women backing Sanders were doing so to meet boys.