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Rivals pounce on Christie in New Hampshire
A funny thing has happened in a Republican
presidential race dominated by Donald Trump and (to a lesser extent) Ted
Cruz and Marco Rubio: Chris Christie -- who's stuck in single digits in
national polls -- has become the target in New Hampshire. Just look at
all of the TV ads in the Granite State, as NBC's Kailani Koenig and Alex
Jaffe have observed. John Kasich's Super PAC has whacked Christie over New Jersey's budget deficit; Jeb Bush's Right to Rise Super PAC jabbed the New Jersey governor (as well as Kasich); and yesterday, Marco Rubio's Super PAC threw the kitchen sink at Christie.
"One high-tax, Common Core, liberal-energy loving,
Obamacare-Medicaid-expanding president is enough," the Rubio Super PAC
ad goes. Bottom line: It seems that the groups backing the other
candidates in the Establishment Lane -- Bush, Kasich, Rubio -- see
Christie as a threat in New Hampshire, where the New Jersey governor is polling higher
than his national average. The challenge for Christie is whether or not
he has the money to fight back. While the Super PAC supporting him has
spent nearly $9 million over the airwaves (almost all in New Hampshire),
his campaign had just $1.4 million in the bank as of Sept. 30. And our
hunch is that Christie's financial situation didn't improve from October
to December. Will the New York money crowd that pined for Christie four
years ago come to the rescue?
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Source: NBC News
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