White House hopefuls in final pitch in New Hampshire

Marco Rubio’s uneven debate performance just days before Tuesday’s pivotal New Hampshire primary has emboldened a trio of governors seeking to stem his rise in the Republican race for president.

Trump appeared at a rally in Manchester, NH Monday evening – hours before voters head to the polls.

On Sunday, Bill Clinton slammed the Vermont senator’s supporters who he said subjected opponents to “vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often – not to mention sexist – to repeat”.

Trump then repeated the phrase into the microphone to an arena of about 5,000 people.

The media hype around the billionaire, along with the internet hilarity, is a distraction away from the fact that he is an incredibly flawed presidential candidate and although he may be leading in the polls now, I am more than comfortable to say that he will not become President of the United States. Shout it out because I don’t want to … She says you shouldn’t say that. Ted Cruz, who won Iowa.

GOP contenders vying for second and third saw fresh hopes for survival after New Hampshire as both parties settled in for a drawn-out slog to the nomination.

No Republican has won the presidential nomination without winning either the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary since the 1970s, but it would not technically be impossible.

“Trump said he’d spend more if he felt that he needed to, calling his campaign “$45 million under budget” in an interview with the AP.

The Granite State takes the spotlight as Republican supporters determine whether a more mainstream candidate – Senator Marco Rubio or one of the three governors in the race – gains ground on frontrunner Trump and his nearest rival, the arch-conservative Senator Ted Cruz.

The shift in spending is a sign of concern among Rubio’s supporters about a possible late surge in New Hampshire by Bush, who joined New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in mocking Rubio during Saturday’s GOP candidate debate.

Rubio has also spent heavily on ads in SC, data show, where the Cruz-aligned Keep the Promise I PAC has been running ads attacking Trump.

“Jeb is having some kind of a breakdown, I think”.

“If you’re not going to vote for me, do not vote”, he dead-panned. “What happened in Flint is immoral”, Clinton said. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said over the weekend that there was “a special place in hell” for women who don’t help women, while writer and famed feminist Gloria Steinem suggested women backing Sanders were doing so to meet boys.

All of them filled their calendars with campaign events in SC, the next state to vote, signaling they had no intention of dropping out no matter the verdict in New Hampshire.

If Christie’s aggressive attacks on Rubio result in his own standing tumbling, it could benefit Bush, the former governor of Florida, and Kasich, the current governor of Ohio.