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38%
Donald Trump’s lead in the GOP presidential race in New Hampshire, followed by Ted Cruz at 14%, Marco Rubio at 12%, Jeb Bush at 9% and John Kasich at 7%, according to a new University of Massachusetts-Lowell/7 News survey.
Maybe he’ll do more than 40 minutes on a little stage telling everybody his canned speech that he’s memorized… Let’s get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble.
— Gov. Chris Christie, quoted by the Washington Post, blasting Marco Rubio’s tightly-controlled campaign appearances.
$860,000
Amount by which Marco Rubio’s campaign has quietly scaled back its ad buys in Iowa, even though he had long planned an ambitious Iowa advertising assault in the weeks leading up to the caucuses, Politico reports.
48%
Donald Trump’s lead over the GOP presidential field among likely Republican voters in Florida, followed Ted Cruz at 16%, Marco Rubio at 11% and Jeb Bush at 10%, according to a new Florida Atlantic University poll. Said pollster Kevin Wagner: “At this point, Donald Trump is simply crushing the opposition in the Florida Republican primary. Not only has he increased his lead, Mr. Trump’s favorability ratings among Republicans are now ahead of his competitors by a substantial margin.”
3-2-1
Marco Rubio’s new campaign strategy, “an unconventional path to winning the GOP primary contest. The strategy, dubbed ‘3-2-1’ by some who have been briefed on it, forecasts a sequence in which Rubio takes third place in Iowa on February 1, finishes second in New Hampshire on February 9, and wins South Carolina on February 20,” reports National Review. “From there, Rubio would be well-positioned in the long haul to win a plurality of voters, and ultimately a majority of delegates, in a three-way contest against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.”
I think that’s just a sign of his inexperience and if he can’t look me in the eye, he’s not going to be able to look Hillary Clinton in the eye, he’s certainly not going to be able to look Vladimir Putin in the eye.
— Gov. Chris Christie, telling Time that the most significant moment of the recent Republican debate came after Marco Rubio “couldn’t look at me in the eye” when the New Jersey governor was responding to an attack.
The truant officer is out looking for him.
— Gov. Chris Christie, quoted by Politico, on the missed votes in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Marco Rubio.
A liberal Democrat would say Barack Obama has been a pretty influential president. He got Dodd-Frank, the stimulus, the deal with Iran. All these things that they were able to get done, they’d look at it and say, ‘This guy’s been pretty consequential.’
— Sen. Marco Rubio, quoted by the New York Times, embracing the comparison many make between him and Obama.
We had roughly 20 minutes with him on Monday, and it was like watching a computer algorithm designed to cover talking points. He said a lot, but at the same time said nothing. It was like someone wound him up, pointed him towards the doors and pushed play. If there was a human side to senator, a soul, it didn’t come across through… Marco Rubio is a man so stuck on script it doesn’t even matter when the cameras are off.
— Erik Eisele, reporter for the Conway Daily Sun.
I watched him find that sweet spot of compromise on immigration reform, but then he broke down like a cheap shotgun the minute the right started chewing on his rear end.
— Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), quoted by Politico, on how Sen. Marco Rubio backed away from his own immigration reform proposal.
