Trump Says New Hampshire Newspaper ‘A Pile of Garbage’

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Donald Trump and three other Republican candidates are slated to pitch themselves to the New Hampshire House of Representatives over the final weeks of the state’s primary race, organizers said Monday.

Trump did not hesitate to take shots at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after the Union Leader endorsed Christie for the Republican presidential nomination last month.

Ahead of a visit Monday from Donald Trump, the publisher of the influential New Hampshire Union Leader printed an editorial slamming the Republican presidential front-runner’s “public descent into bathroom humor”, and revived the comparison to Biff Tannen from the “Back to the Future” movies.

Chris Christie for president released a new ad on Monday that rips President Obama’s foreign policy and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “He said, ‘How about lunch?’ Just recently we had lunch at his country club where he showed me around to everybody, to people that were friends of his”. Trump repeated earlier claims that McQuaid asked him to write a tweet in favor of Chris Christie’s inclusion in a prime-time GOP debate. “I want it today”, Trump said to a chorus of cheers from the crowd.

“I feel it is unlikely I will be getting the endorsement from you and the Union-Leader”.

“Can I say the word?”

“I knew when I didn’t do [his] debate, he would take action against me”, Trump stated.

“You don’t go try and hurt somebody that’s been helping you”, Trump told an approving crowd, brandishing a paper copy of the Union Leader that he would soon after throw into the crowd in disgust. “I’m not going to be able to spend a whole day playing golf, ‘” Trump recalled.

“It cost tremendously in terms of votes for the Republican Party”, Trump said.

“He’s the most personable presidential candidate I’ve ever met”, gushed 74-year-old Jim McConaha of Concord.

Trump said that McQuaid asked the businessman to help the family of James Foley, a journalist from New Hampshire who was killed by the Islamic State in a videotaped beheading.

“You win the caucuses, by going out and meeting voters one on one, answering their questions, shaking their hands, going to their communities, not making them drive two hours to you”, Huckabee said. “Rather than us being upset about his non-attendance, I think he is clearly upset that we didn’t endorse him”.

That is one reason New Hampshire is getting even more attention than usual. “The reaction doesn’t surprise me at all”.

At the start of August, just $1.7 million had been spent in New Hampshire and about $3.8 million in Iowa.

If an eventual nominee gets crowned without having won New Hampshire, future candidates could downgrade the state’s traditional importance.