Christie jabs at Hill in undercard

Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum – all of whom received less than 3% in national polls – Tuesday in Milwaukee.

“Since we’re not going to answer the question”, Huckabee said, “let me just remind everybody, tomorrow is Veterans Day”.

The candidates to appear in the primetime debate Tuesday will be former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, U.S. Sen.

The undercard debate aired on Fox Business Network at 7 p.m. EST.

Christie has said the demotion was only a slight setback on his road to the White House and maintains he is prepared to debate anyone at any time.

“You could put a podium outside Mickey’s here, and as long as they give me a microphone and a camera I’ll be there”. The only question now is can he get back to the big stage?

Michael DuHaime, Christie’s senior strategist, spoke to Yahoo News in the spin room following the debate.

The governor was simply “reminding everyone that this is about defeating the Democrats and Hillary Clinton, not each other”, a spokesperson said.

“I’ll tell you the thing that disturbs me the most abut what’s going on with the Democratic Party in Washington – that they’re not standing behind our police officers across this country”, Christie said.

Huckabee started his response by criticizing President Barack Obama for not doing “anything help stop the slaughter of Christians” and for not helping the Kurdish forces.

After his strong performance in the undercard GOP debate, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Wednesday morning that the GOP shouldn’t be anxious about its own internal differences, and should be more focused on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Nothing could really knock Mr. Christie off his talking points.

“Hillary Clinton is coming for your wallet everybody”, he declared. Christie ignored a string of attacks from Bobby Jindal, a clear sign to everyone in the theater that Jindal saw him as the biggest fish on the stage and he didn’t see Jindal at all.

It showed in his visible bewilderment and in his resolute unwillingness to break down and react when confronted by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who was intent on using every opportunity to attack Christie’s record in New Jersey, where he’s been governor since 2009.

Mr. Santorum pitched his proposal for more job-training programs, saying there are scores of jobs for welders and other trades that can’t be filled because too many people are pressured to go to college rather than trade schools or apprenticeships.

After the debate reached its midpoint, Santorum maintained his stance against the auto industry bailout.