Christie under attack as rivals sense him rising in NH

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush speaks during a campaign stop in Derry, N.H., on January 5. Then comes New Hampshire on February 9. His shorthand version: “Showtime is fun”, meaning it’s now time to get serious.

Bush spoke with The Post before a town hall meeting with more than 200 people here at a resort on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. He’s got to cast votes in the United States Senate.

“The United States should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out ISIS with overwhelming force”, Bush says in the spot, which uses audio from his foreign policy speech at The Citadel in SC.

Marco Rubio’s backers recently put $1 million into anti-Christie advertising, according filings with federal election regulators. USA residents, said to have been loyal to the militant group, were also responsible for the deadly shootings in San Bernadino, Calif. last month.

“Some of these people haven’t heard from a
Republican in 25 years: the people who clean hotel rooms and park cars and mow lawns and have to pick up the chairs here after we’re done”, said Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants. Marco Rubio charged that Christie has been too closely aligned with President Obama on gun control, health care and Common Core education standards, echoing twin attack ads aired here by his allied super PAC.

“As voters become more frustrated angry voices become more reasonable”.

In Concord, he had some advice for a fifth grader about the importance of studying hard. “We need an experienced, tested decision maker in the Oval Office”, Mr. Christie will say. Rubio is also trading licks with Ted Cruz.

Christie promised supporters at an Asbury Park fundraiser last summer he’d “bring a little Jersey to the campaign and the White House as well”.

“Let’s take this righteous anger and frustration, and make it productive for our party and for our nation”.

“I would compete in the state of New Jersey and I would compete in the state of the NY if I’m running against Hillary Clinton”. “Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a fiery speech on Tuesday laid out his plan to break up “too big to fail” commercial banks and pointedly attacked Hillary Clinton for taking speaking fees from the financial industry and, in his view, not going far enough in her plan to regulate Wall Street”, the New York Times says.

Christie spokesman Kevin Roberts wouldn’t answer several questions about how tax dollars might be used, citing a pending lawsuit from liberal groups in New Jersey that say Christie is violating his fiduciary responsibility by spending so much on his campaign.

On a hectic presidential campaign trail Monday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said “showtime is over” and called on Republicans to unite behind what he called his proven leadership.

They strike a dark and fearful tone, with footage and news headlines highlighting the recent terror attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Paris.

Tensions between the Cruz and Rubio campaigns have heated up in the past few weeks, as they’ve clashed over their respective positions on immigration.

“The risk for each of them is there are three other candidates who are all offering the same package to voters”, he said. My message is connecting up here in New Hampshire and so, you know, it’s good to be attacked. I mean, come on. He’s “back on the radar screen all across the country”, Luntz said.

Porter likes a lot of things Donald Trump is saying, but said he thinks Christie is more suited to being a leader. Rubio promised, “If I am our nominee, voters will be reminded of it time and time again”. “Rubio based on one bill, one law, and I didn’t decide him over Cruz based on one”, Issa said.

“Any significant division within the Republican Party leads to the same very bad result”, Christie told the audience at St. Anselm.