Christie: Rubio as out of place in New Hampshire on abortion

“He sort of makes faces and says insulting things”, Barbara Bush said about Trump.

Rubio, who has enjoyed a surge in New Hampshire as of late, surpassing Ted Cruz to get to second place, dismissed Christie’s dis as a simple knee jerk reaction to his own slipping poll numbers.

Prior to the Iowa finish, Trump held 31 support of GOP support in New Hampshire, followed by Cruz with 12 and Rubio 11, Kasisch 11, Bush 8 and Christie 7.

It’s a matter of pedigree.

“I know I’ve been written off”, said Bush, who must beat his establishment rivals next week or consider giving up.

Bush, whose establishment Republican credentials have not guaranteed him public support, has also turned on his former protege.

“As a speaker of the (Florida) House, he managed a staff of about 40 people”, Bush said in the interview Friday.

“Rubio is our strongest candidate”, the source said of the senator’s surprise third-place showing in Iowa this week.

“People like Sen. Gregg and myself – yes, of course”, Morse says.

In August, as he was campaigning in New Hampshire, Christie announced, “I’m a Catholic, but I’ve used birth control – and not just the rhythm method”. You have a right to be frustrated. “They do not want to run against me”.

He added: “Barack Obama is not a bad president because he lacks experience”.

For now, though, the archers must point their arrows at one another.

In Iowa, where evangelical Republicans are more numerous, the three governors polled a combined 6.5 percent. “I will grow the conservative movement and the Republican Party”.

Rival Chris Christie mocked Rubio on Tuesday as “the boy in the bubble” managed by his “handlers”. It’s surprising that a pro-life Republican would attack Rubio for taking the same position on the right to life as Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, and Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton shake hands during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by MSNBC at the University of New Hampshi… “I’m not going to get manic, I’m not panicked, I’m not throwing a Hail Mary”.

But for Bush, Kasich, and Christie, it may be now or never.

When the axe finally falls, will the governor fall in line and endorse Rubio despite questioning his ability to do the job, or endorse Bush?

The most intriguing candidate of the moment is neither a sitting governor – like these three – nor a political bomb thrower like Trump or Cruz. They chanted his name. “New Hampshire folks are going to be watching and deciding, and I will put on a good show for them”.

When the Florida senator hit the national political stage six years ago, he was the darling of the newborn Tea Party.

Christie was first elected governor in 2009 and won a second term in a landslide in 2013.

Once in the Senate, though, Rubio worked with Democrats on a plan for immigration reform, a plan he later walked away from. When Trump’s plane was delayed by snow and he had to cancel an event in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush tweeted a photo of his mother in New Hampshire at Trump and pointed out that snow didn’t keep the 90-year-old from the campaign trail like it did the billionaire with the private plane.

He described Rubio as a “nice guy” but then questioned the media’s narrative out of Iowa. Marco Rubio are campaigning hard there.

If you’re wondering just how high the stakes are for the February 9 New Hampshire GOP primary just look to Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Ellen Hyatt and Mary Sue Sanderson, both from Hampton, N.H., and both of whom identify themselves primarily as moms, were among those at the Rubio rally. He’ll be flanked by Cruz and Rubio.

“I think that he made excellent points, he did it in a humorous way comparing him to a grade school student”, she said.

In the past few days, some of the Republicans who have failed to attract support this cycle have dropped out. It was Cruz-Trump-Rubio. Yawn’.

Jeb Bush says this state’s emphasis on retail politics gives him optimism, despite polling and punditry, as he heads into Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation.

The Texas senator’s general election strategy depends nearly wholly upon maximizing turnout among millions of conservative white voters – namely evangelical Christians and the white working class who didn’t vote in 2012. “They are here all the time”, Spiliotes said.