Christie attacks Rubio as a ‘boy in the bubble’

Clinton defeated Sanders by less than three-tenths of 1 percent, the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history, the state party said.

The New Jersey governor is speaking at a fundraising breakfast for the Salvation Army in Nashua.

The New Jersey governor claimed Rubio has refused to answer tough questions while he’s been running for the Republican presidential nomination.

Had he slowly built toward a second-place finish to Cruz — poised to win Iowa based on his impeccable credentials among evangelical and social conservatives so important in the state — perceptions of his result would have been much more favorable.

Before he climbed on his bus, Christie told reporters: “I haven’t even seen the results”. “Thank you, New Hampshire”, he said. Funding is an issue.

Here’s where the eight worst-positioned candidates stand, according to their fourth-quarter F.E.C. filings, in order of who is least to most likely to drop out next. “Not just why are we going to win, but when we get there what are we going to do?”

Chris Christie launched a fresh and sharply personal broadside here Tuesday against opponent Marco Rubio, charging that the Florida senator who surged to a strong third-place finish in Monday’s Iowa Republican caucuses was “the boy in the bubble”. His campaign is pressing the message that the crowded primary has now become a three-way race – Rubio against the two anti-establishment Republicans, Trump and Cruz. Iowa’s top vote-getter, Sen.

“I just feel like we need a governor”.

Among Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton edged out Sen. Bernie is second, ‘ he said of the septuagenarian Democratic phenomenon Bernie Sanders. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley also quit the race.

“When the moment comes that I have to look him in the eye and engage him, I will”, Christie said, adding that he thinks Trump will eventually “take himself down”. “Trump being in it threw a whole new monkey wrench into the situation”. “I don’t remember a President Huckabee, a President Santorum, and it’s not going to be a President Cruz”. I was a big Reagan fan.

But since Iowa started voting first in 1976, no Republican has ever made it to the White House without winning Iowa or New Hampshire, an Enquirer reporter told him. “So anything can happen”.

New Hampshire is where the real culling of the presidential field takes place, and it was immediately clear Tuesday that the days of “Iowa nice” campaigning are over.

“Iowa mattered to him until it didn’t matter, ” said state Sen.

Now Iowa really matters.

Christie has said that he is optimistic about his chances in New Hampshire where he has spent a lot of campaigning in the weeks leading up to the February 9 primary. “Iowa is now in the rear view mirror”.

Others in the so-called establishment lane are in the same boat as Christie, said Rutgers University political scientist David Redlawsk.

Saying that he never expected to do very well in Iowa, Christie told supporters in Bedford that it’s time for the blocking and tackling of New Hampshire retail politics, something he said he’s waited for his entire campaign.

Sunday night, his political action committee released a commercial attacking Rubio by comparing him with another Republican U.S. senator, New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte.

Christie could buy: 86,862 servings of Moe’s Steak “n” Eggs at the Red Arrow Diner, a popular stop for presidential candidates in Manchester. “Why the rush to all this?” Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was not far behind in third place with 23 percent. Ted Cruz, and former CEO Carly Fiorina.

In contrast, Trump says, “I’m a supporter and I always will be a supporter”.

Christie’s longtime friend, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon, a Republican from Monmouth County, said he wouldn’t be surprised to see Christie remain viable in the race, despite Monday’s setback. “If anybody can do it, and pull it off, he’d be the guy I would say would have a shot”.

“I like Jeb Bush, and I would love to support him”.