Rubio comes under withering criticism in Republican debate

For Christie, the last few days of the New Hampshire primary are crucial.

Christie is trailing the other two governors in New Hampshire, where he needs to outperform both in order to move his campaign to SC.

Bush, in a separate interview, also dismissed the idea of a consensus establishment candidate.

“I’m not thinking about Iowa, I’m thinking about New Hampshire“, Trump said while lamenting the caucus system. “In 2008, we elected a president that didn’t want to fix America”, Rubio told the debate audience. But the field is still crowded, and the electorates that await the candidates in SC and Nevada are markedly more diverse.

Rubio seems to be the most successful candidate to reach out to the youth and pull their independent, moderate minds into his campaign.

According to a new Monmouth University survey released Sunday, Trump holds a considerable double-digit lead over his opponents, with 30 percent of likely Republican primary voters saying they would vote for the billionaire businessman.

There was a time Chris Christie tried to establish himself as the thinking Republican’s alternative to Donald Trump.

“Bush did another swing through Florida and raised $500,000 at four events”, says an insider close to the GOP long shot.

“I could say to you if I came in second and third I’d be thrilled, OK?” “But I’m just better, because I’ve been tested”.

Christie, as well as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, has staked his campaign on New Hampshire, pouring most of his resources into the state in recent weeks.

Here was the exchange between Rubio and Christie that has earned Rubio much criticism. Can you make a tough decision?

For her part, the former first lady has not kept contempt for Trump a secret.

Wallace asked Christie about the notion that the party needed to get behind one of the “so-called establishment” candidates to stop front-runners Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who won Iowa.

Christie took swipe after swipe at Rubio in Saturday night’s Republican debate, when he called him out for repeating his talking points, dodging questions and having a resume that’s short on executive experience.

“Leadership. You learn this, you learn it by doing it”, he declared “It’s not something that you just go up, and on the job do it”.

“I think the whole race changed last night”.

“As far as that message, I hope they keep running it and I’m going to keep saying it, because it’s true”, Rubio added. He snapped at Bush-“Quiet!” he barked-incurring boos from the spectators in the hall, whom Trump then described to viewers as major GOP donors and lobbyists, the very people whom his working-class white supporters presumably loathe. “And I only came in second because of the fact that Cruz took a lot of votes away from Carson that should not have been taken away”.

Rising in some New Hampshire polls, Marco Rubio became the No. 1 target in the last Republican presidential debate before the February 9 primary.

On NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday, Trump stood by his promise in Saturday’s debate to reinstitute waterboarding as an interrogation method for foreign prisoners of the U.S.

“I know I’m behind”, Clinton said on CNN’s “State of the Union“.

Google also polled throughout the debate on who members of the public thought was winning. “Don’t make me nervous”, he told host Jake Tapper, “and don’t jinx me here!”