Rubio supporters tussle with #RobotRubio protesters in New Hampshire
Where Rubio has erred is in repeating lines within a single speech, giving the impression he is unable to break away from his rehearsed script or improvise answers to unexpected questions.
And it strikes me that this was really the first time you owned up to Saturday night’s debate being not a great performance for you and having an effect. But courting voters in a crowded New Hampshire diner on the eve of the primary is an unpredictable business.
After Rubio finished a stronger-than-expected third in the February 1 Iowa caucuses, his campaign touted “Marcomentum” and tried to define the Republican nomination fight as a three-candidate race. Sunday’s polling of 500 potential voter showed Rubio in fourth place.
“I know that that’s not a majority of Americans don’t agree with me on that”, he acknowledged, “and that’s why any law that limits abortions that passes will nearly certainly have exceptions”.
“I don’t”, Rubio said. “This country already has a debt problem, we don’t need to add to it by electing someone who has experience at running up and destroying the credit rating of his state”. Rubio lashed back by correctly pointing out that, under Christie, New Jersey has suffered nine credit rating downgrades.
“And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing”, Rubio repeated. This is a president that’s trying to redefine this country. Naturally, politicians like any job applicants want to say the top lines on their resume are the most important qualifications.
Lauer began the Trump interview by wondering: “Are you now the favorite to be the next President of the United States?” “So listen to this: that will never happen again”.
Mr. Rubio continued: ‘I think that’s what the law should be. That’s what Washington, D.C. Does. “That is exactly what his advisers gave him”, said Christie during his kill-shot response. Did you expect to be manhandled? They expect you to get the schools open.
“Tonight we did not wind up where we wanted to be, but that does not change where we are going to wind up at the end of this process”, Rubio said. So all he could muster was, “I’m proud of my service in the United States Senate”, a remark that’s lighter than a breeze-blown balloon.
Looking ahead to the next contest, now all the more critical for his presidential ambitions, Rubio concluded: “South Carolina, we’re on our way”. In second place was former Fla.
Rubio responded to the New Hampshire resident – identified as Timothy Kierstead – by saying that people have the right to live as they chose, but that he personally embraces a traditional view of marriage, the Washington Post reported. “It’s one of the reasons why I’m not running for re-election to the Senate and I’m running for president”.