Christie slams Rubio as ‘boy in the bubble’

Election Day:5 things we were watching for in Iowa. If he loses New Hampshire, will he still be as magnanimous as he saunters into SC? The first question he got from the audience was about Monday night’s caucuses in Iowa, in which GOP rivals Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio took the top prizes.

The latest Federal Election Commission figures put Cruz second only to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in terms of total personal fundraising for all of 2015, $155.6 million to $89.9 million. It’s a strategy that has worked for some in the past and been fatal for others, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who placed sixth in Iowa and then came in fourth in New Hampshire after being the national front-runner.

They have poured their time and money into contesting New Hampshire, and have assembled muscular field organisations here. “They’re different political planets between Iowa and New Hampshire on the Republican side”.

Undecided New Hampshire Republican voters who participated in a CNN focus group had mixed reactions to Trump’s speech as men responded positively to Trump’s criticism of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton Monday night, while Republican women were largely indifferent.

NEWBURY, N.H. (AP)-Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he’s “ready to roll” to a strong finish in the New Hampshire primary.

“We’ve got a lot of institutional advantages here that we just never had in Iowa and we weren’t going to be able to make happen in Iowa”. The foursome is considered to be competing for mainstream Republicans in a campaign that has seen Trump and Cruz most effectively tap populist anger and disdain for the establishment.

Rubio on Tuesday told supporters in Exeter, “Perhaps no state in the country demands more of candidates than New Hampshire does”.

Rubio wasted no time in attacking Cruz, alleging that Cruz’s career is “one of calculation”.

“I like to have as much fun as anybody … but there’s nothing, nothing humorous about who’s going to be the next president of the United States”, Christie said. “I can say I don’t know once, but I can’t say it twice”.

But the better-than-expected showing in Iowa by Sen. Ted Cruz. He also came close to losing second place to Sen.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, with his wife Jane, addressess supporters from the bed of a pickup truck after arriving early morning in Bow, New Hampshire from Iowa Feb. 2, 2016. Marco Rubio of Florida could boost him among establishment Republicans in New Hampshire.

In the Des Moines debate, Christie said it was time for the Clintons to get out of “public housing”, meaning the White House. “We’re all angry about what’s going on in Washington, and you deserve to be, but you need someone who is going to be able to rebuild the place, not just burn it down”. He went to extremes to please Iowa’s conservative voters, including issuing a controversial veto of a bill from New Jersey Democrats to ban small crates for pregnant pigs that are considered inhumane.

Polls show the Vermont senator leading Clinton in New Hampshire. Reid asks. “They say to try the side door because that’s what people use”.

“I feel a little more aggression in New Hampshire, a little more laid back in Iowa”, Christie said after his first event of the day on Saturday.

Both contests are critically important for the momentum they give – or deny – to candidates hoping to remain competitive later.

“The overwhelming public outcry is because New Hampshire residents do not want their wildlife sold as a commodity”, an opponent of the plan said.