Trump aiming for New Hampshire win, rivals aim to survive

The Ohio governor, who is vowing to erase the USA budget deficit without shredding the safety net for poor Americans, has built a base of support among moderate Republicans and independent voters, who wield special clout in New Hampshire because they can vote in either party’s primary.

Christie, New Jersey’s sitting governor, repeated accusations that Rubio recites the same campaign points, calling him a “talented guy” when required to “deliver a speech, read a teleprompter”.

The morning after, Christie declared the Republican contest a changed race.

“There was a march amongst some in the chattering class to anoint Sen”.

Both Christie and Kasich carved out opportunities to highlight their achievements as governors, making strong closing arguments before the New Hampshire primary.

“We have come a long way in the last nine months”, Sanders said. “So I think there could be four or five tickets out of New Hampshire because the race is so unsettled now”.

But Bush, who once worked closely with Rubio when the two were leaders in the Florida Statehouse, said Rubio’s debate performance reiterated standing concerns with his former colleague.

Sanders led Clinton 54% to 40%, down slightly from an 18 percentage point lead in the previous Poll of Polls.

Cruz, who is not expected to replicate his success in Iowa in New Hampshire, is looking ahead to the primary in SC.

After his impressively strong third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, Sen. And other candidates, even Jeb Bush, say their campaigns will go on no matter how they do on Tuesday.

For Barbara O’Brien, an undecided voter who had been considering voting for Rubio, it was enough to convince her he wasn’t the right choice.

A week ago, just seven percent of New Hampshire voters said it was likely he’d be the GOP nominee, but that number is up to 23 percent now.

(CNN)Jeb Bush alternated Monday morning between defending his GOP primary rival Marco Rubio from criticism of his debate performance, and also criticizing his one-time protege for being untested.

“I chose to engage last night and how do you think it went?”

It was game on for Rubio on Super Bowl Sunday. He then proceeded to repeat the same line that put him in Christie’s crosshairs.

After hearing his answer, the woman said Christie had earned her vote.

“Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. Change the country, not fix it”. “I hear a lot of people saying, ‘I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that.’ I feel like Marco Rubio is the only candidate that really has laid out a plan on how he’s actually going to tackle these issues and everyone can read them in detail on his website”.

“The acoustics back stage were awful and there was too much noise out front so you just couldn’t hear”, he said. The fundraising numbers were unverifiable.

On NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday, Trump said waterboarding, accepted as torture internationally and now forbidden by USA law, is “peanuts” compared to what Islamic State group members practice. He has to bring his mother out and walk his mother around at 90 years old. “It’s wrong. Hillary stands behind her team, period”, he wrote on Twitter. Ted Cruz follows with 13 percent, John Kasich at 11 percent and Jeb Bush at 10 percent.

He also took the opportunity to again blast CNN’s reporting during the Iowa caucuses.

For Democrats, Sanders drew another large crowd Sunday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he reprised his indictment of a “rigged economy” and “corrupt campaign finance system”.