Christie steps up New Hampshire campaign

Rubio took a swipe at Trump when he criticized “Republican candidates who propose that rulers like Assad and Putin should be partners of the United States”. “Who are these people?” He’s expanded his staff and started to make a play in Iowa – a state most long assumed he’d ignore – all while coming under attack by his rivals. “I guess that same person now must have convinced Marco that going negative against Chris Christie is what he needs to do”. His problems are unusually extensive even in a fractured GOP field where voters seem unsure what they want. “I stand by my record as governor of New Jersey – it’s a good one”.

Apart from that 1996 surprise, New Hampshire has tended to favor the more mainstream Republican contender, a la Mitt Romney and John McCain. Still, aides in those same campaigns look at Christie less as a long-term threat than a roadblock to their broader strategy. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen.

“His state is No. 50 out of 50 economically, ” Trump told New Hampshire television station WMUR, adding that he believes Christie was in on the George Washington Bridge scandal, despite the governor’s denials: “How could they close down the largest and most traveled bridge in the US and he didn’t know about it?”

One uses the now infamous photo of the president and Christie embracing after Hurricane Sandy, calling the New Jersey governor “Obama’s favorite”.

While Rubio himself isn’t legally allowed to coordinate with the outside group, he didn’t hesitate to endorse their message.

Hillary Clinton is praising President Barack Obama’s plan for new executive actions on gun control. It goes on to attack Christie for supporting an Internet sales tax, Medicaid expansion and Common Core.

“What ISIS would really want is Marco Rubio’s immigration bill, giving them unfettered access to attack us at home”. Marco Rubio isn’t staking his campaign on one state in particular, but he has to show his potential someplace.

But those ads are likely just the beginning. The ad features footage from a speech gave at the Military College of the South, known as the Citadel, in Charleston South Carolina last month. Campaign fundraising numbers from the last three months haven’t yet been released. “By reminding Democrats of the stakes, she invites voters to question whether they’re willing to risk so much in an untested candidate like Sanders”. They came as a result of a mess he inherited.

“We don’t need a President who’s gonna sit behind the desk on the first day, spin around in the chair and say, ‘Gee whiz, isn’t it incredible?”

“Without naming names, Rubio took aim at “isolationist candidates” in his party, seen as a jab at fellow senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas”.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO [R-FL]: I know I have a debate but I’ve got to get this fantasy football thing right.

For the most part, Christie’s efforts appear effective here. The standing room-only crowd ate it up.

PETER ALEXANDER: The candidates on both sides picking up the pace, 60 stops in less than 48 hours across Iowa and new Hampshire. “You don’t have to beat Trump in New Hampshire, and you don’t have to win. It’s game time”, he said during a town hall meeting at a grade school in Concord on Monday evening. “Now whether well is first second, third fourth it will depend on a lot of other factors”.

Chris Christie is expanding his presidential campaign staff, a sign both that his fundraising has improved and that he is preparing to battle for the Republican nomination beyond the early states.

Paul and Sanders have had a better voting record throughout the 2016 election so far than Cruz and Rubio, but Paul’s statement inflates the gap.