Christie focuses attacks on Clinton in GOP undercard debate

“Chris, it’s also true that that you expanded food stamps at a time that we have a record number of Americans on food stamps”. He even praised President Obama at one point. I did my duty to God and party and watched the so-called “undercard” debate, where Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Chris Christie slugged it out.

The immigration remarks were one of the most notable points of disagreement in a Fox Business Network-Wall Street Journal debate that in many ways was a contest over which candidate could both adhere faithfully to the conservative tenets of small government, but do so in a way that would help ensure Republicans win back the White House. I won in a state for reelection after governing as a pro-life conservative and got 61 percent of the vote. And he blasted Christie, who had been the dominant figure in the debate’s first half, saying he did too little to cut state spending.

While everyone is reading the usual presidential politics into the move, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has vetoed yet another gun control bill coming out of the Democrat held legislature in his home state.

Christie stayed quiet during the exchange.

Jindal argued strongly that sending a big-government conservative to Washington as president would lead to a perpetuation rather than a reversal of the policies that Republicans want to change.

As with most questions Christie was asked, his answers quickly turned to attacks on Hillary Clinton. Santorum favors a flat tax and adds that not everyone has to go to college. Christie’s reasons for the veto were understandable, though, on two different counts. Huckabee said all taxes on work, savings and investments should be eliminated as part of his “fair tax”.

A fourth driver, the commission said, involved Obamacare, saying the excise tax on so-called Cadillac plans is “looming on the horizon”. “We need more welders and less philosophers”, he said. When asked about Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, Huckabee responded like the folksy preacher he used to be: “Well, my wife’s name’s Janet”. Huckabee said that America’s priority should be to let the economy grow again, and that the government should take care of Americans before helping others.

“Every sovereign nation secures its borders and it is not compassionate to say we’re not going to enforce the laws and we’re going to drive down the wages for millions of hard-working American workers”, the senator said. “We completely eliminate it. Because the government has no business knowing how much money we make, and how we make it….”

Huckabee spouted a few sound-bites that will serve him well over the next week. But in this silly primary season he and Kasich are out of place. “Let’s not be a second liberal party”, Jindal said.

Duhaime said the campaign is not concerned about last month’s Rutgers University poll, which found that 67 percent of New Jersey residents think Christie should drop out of the race.

Christie did not join his undercard opponents in the media “spin room” following the debate.

Christie deflected the criticism and kept his focus on Clinton.

But the Louisiana Governor also had strong words about a potential Clinton victory.

“That was the most pointed exchange of the night that gets to [the] point that someone has to stand out now as who the Republican is we’re supposed to back here, not just ‘we have to beat Hillary Clinton, ‘ ” he said. Among the undercard candidates, Christie possibly gained the most momentum throughout the evening-often demonstrating more charisma and appeal to moderate Republicans than Huckabee.

He seemed to be already looking ahead to the general election as a war against Clinton that he plans to fight, invoking the same populist rhetoric that Clinton herself has been using.

“She believes that she can make better decisions for you than you can make for yourself”, Christie said. Although sugar farmers have not been a subject of great concern to most Americans, The Daily Caller suggests that the entire line was a veiled broadside against Rubio, who has been receiving a lot of donations from the most successful “sugar family” in Florida. “It’s in its people”.