In Iowa, establishment GOP candidates play expectations game

He said one of the first things he would do if elected president would be to invite Netanyahu to Camp David for a long weekend so he could “vent” about Obama.

Gov. Christie blasted President Obama this week as a “dictator” and “petulant child” for taking executive action on guns, accusing the president of wrongly circumventing Congress.

“Christie has a history of firing with a laser scope, not a shotgun, ” said Hale, a Seton Hall University political science professor. Another blasts Christie’s leadership. “One high-tax, Common Core, liberal-energy-loving, Obama-Medicaid-expanding president is enough”, the narrator ominously warns, over an image of Christie embracing Barack Obama in the wake of super-storm Sandy in the closing week of the 2012 campaign.

The aim isn’t to win Iowa, just to beat Bush here and slow Rubio’s momentum.

“I learned the difference, and I learned what the limitations are of these laws that people are talking about and how they much, much more greatly infringe on law-abiding citizens than they do anything to prevent crime”, Christie said. The New Jersey governor responded by ridiculing Mr. Rubio, of Florida, for…

Christie has shot up in recent polls of New Hampshire, inching closer to Rubio’s second-place spot in the state, according to RealClearPolitics. And Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise super PAC features Christie in a new ad that promotes Bush as the best of the governors – past or present – in the race for the GOP nomination.

Galdieri said Christie probably has the most riding on New Hampshire.

“There’s no concrete evidence of a Christie surge, other than the fact he’s making a concerted effort to spend more time courting Iowans”, Bardwell said.

While Conservative Solutions PAC must disclose its donors, its sister “social welfare” nonprofit – Conservative Solutions Project – does not, meaning the nonprofit’s donors are unknown.

The Rubio campaign confirmed to CNN that the ad will run in Iowa, but it wouldn’t disclose the amount of the buy.

This is one of a series of ads videos Rubio’s campaign or his super PAC has released recently.

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In a new television ad that will start running in Iowa this weekend, Sen. It does not monitor local cable stations or track digital advertising. The Republican presidential candidate, appearing on Fox News, said his time as a federal prosecutor shaped his transformation. It played out like an extended question-and-answer session with Boteach, an Englewood rabbi who runs the World Values Network and is well-connected among Israel supporters and Republican mega-donors such as Nevada casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. He is now a partner at consulting firm First Tuesday Strategies.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Jeb Bush and Chris Christie won’t win Iowa.

Other companies donated six-figure amounts as well, including one of the nation’s largest for-profit private prison companies, Geo Group, Inc.

The Bloomberg article lists some striking examples of Rubio changing his posture dramatically, pushing fear-based messages that are as hysterical as they are dumb.

Florida Crystals Corp., a sugar company, also donated $100,000.

During a town hall in New Hampshire, Bush was asked to compare and contrast himself with Christie.

That was four months ago.

In this January 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. But security for trips out of state cost significantly more than the governor’s in-state business. And while candidates like Trump and Cruz have established themselves as outsiders in this race, the remaining candidates are still jockeying for support for more traditional Republican voters in Iowa, like Justin Chappell.