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New poll: Jump for Christie, Cruz, but Trump still dominant
POLLSTER CALLS CHRISTIE ‘MOMENTUM CANDIDATE.’ The results of a new poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling of North Carolina prompted the firm’s director to call Chris Christie the “clear momentum candidate” in New Hampshire.
Read More >>CNN/ORC Poll: Trump alone at the top again
Donald Trump is once again alone at the top of the Republican field, according to the latest CNN/ORC Poll, with 36% of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents behind him, while his nearest competitor trails by 20 points.
Read More >>Sytek endorses Christie
Former New Hampshire House Speaker Donna Sytek on Tuesday endorsed Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie Tuesday, applauding his focus on drug abuse as a health issue, not simply a matter of criminal justice.
Read More >>Christie Positioned to Rise
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has enjoyed a resurgence of attention in recent weeks, in part because of a perceived or at least expected shift in many primary voters’ priorities towards national security issues. In recent days there have been several articles suggesting that Christie may be poised to be the “surprise” candidate of 2016, rising from the bottom of the pack to serious contender status. Here is National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar with an assessment:
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Bush readies his last stand in New Hampshire
New Hampshire is beginning to look like Jeb Bush’s final stand.
Stuck in the middle of the GOP pack he was expected to dominate, Bush is accelerating the time frame for his campaign’s next ad buy in the state. His campaign also announced Tuesday that it is opening four regional field offices in New Hampshire and upping its on-the-ground staff from 12 people to 20.
Read More >>GOP establishment hits bottleneck in NH
Republican establishment candidates are stuck in a bottleneck in New Hampshire, with a sizable group of contenders unable to break away in the first-in-the-nation primary state.
In a state that has in the past favored mainstream conservatives such as Mitt Romney and John McCain, several centrist Republicans need a strong showing in New Hampshire to prove they’re viable in the states that follow.
Read More >>The Case for Chris Christie’s Political Comeback
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offers a case study in the futility of obsessing over polls at the expense of everything else. If you just look at his national and early-state numbers, which still hover in the low single-digits, it would be easy to conclude that he faces near-impossible odds of winning the GOP’s presidential nomination; by the former measure, he was left off the stage at the last Republican debate.
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