Most in NY House GOP delay presidential endorsements

The New Jersey governor told reporters in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday: “I will lend my support in every way between now and November for Donald to help in everything he needs”.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio dialed up the insults against fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail Friday, repeating and expanding on successful punchlines from Thursday’s debate and mocking Trump for misspelling mean tweets about him.

Donald Trump got his first major endorsement in the Republican race for president on Friday.

“When it moves to the general election, I think you’re going to see a real seriousness”, she said, “with people turning and saying, ‘What do we know about this man?'”

Trump, who previously dismissed the importance of endorsements, said Christie is “the one endorsement that I felt very strongly about”.

Analysts said the New Jersey governor’s support for Trump, whose brash, provocative style of politics has turned the Republican race – and American politics – upside down, marked a potential turning point in the campaign. “But I’m not going to allow the party of Reagan and conservative movement to be taken over by someone who just isn’t a conservative but a con-artist”.

The tone reflected the fierce battle underway ahead of “Super Tuesday” on March 1, when 11 states including Cruz’s huge home state of Texas go to the polls in perhaps the most consequential voting day of the 2016 primary campaign.

The state Democratic party, however, was quick to connect Baker to the endorsement and call on him to publicly back a candidate. He said he’d assumed that Christie would not have made an endorsement at this stage of the campaign. Trump has said he would build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, U.S. trade negotiators are weak and it’s risky to take in Syrian refugees because terrorists could be among them. But that’s in the past, Doherty said, predicting the state party would get behind Trump.

“Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night”. He said that Trump, who expressed concerns about the network’s coverage of him, was acting like a “13-year-old” instead of someone who was ready to become president.

But Mr Rubio, the Florida Senator, continued to lambast Mr Trump the morning after the debate.

In Texas, Trump is locked in a close fight with his main rival Senator Ted Cruz. “Not only do we have our own numbers, but I know my state”, he told Today Show hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie.

“Why am I surprised?”