By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog
The public polling we have as of this morning is pre-debate, Save Jerseyans, and those results suggest that New Jersey’s governor is stuck in 6th place in New Hampshire, but Chris Christie‘s chief strategist is promoting the Governor’s much-discussed attack on Marco Rubio on Saturday night as a ‘momentum changing touchdown’ for his candidate.
“We couldn’t have said it better. The response from New Hampshire voters, TV pundits and even our critics has been overwhelmingly positive,” crowed political consultant Mike DuHaime, in a fundraising e-mail to supporters, citing a glowing review from the Washington Post’s Dan Balz. “They are saying what we’ve known all along: Chris Christie is an experienced, executive leader who will tell it like it is and is the best candidate to take on Hillary or Bernie.”
Christie, who has averaged between 4% and 6% support in New Hampshire over the final weeks of the 2016 campaign there, is widely believed to need a breakout expectations-defying performance on Tuesday night to stay in the race. Others have suggests that Tuesday’s attempted takedown of Marco Rubio was designed less to save Christie and more to honor an alliance between the New Jerseyan and fellow establishment governor Jeb Bush.
The most recent New Jersey-based Monmouth survey showed Donald Trump firmly in the first with Christie’s ‘governor-lane’ competitors John Kasich and Bush surging to a statistical dead head for 2nd with Rubio and Ted Cruz while Christie himself remained at 6%.
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