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| Trump leads in Iowa as Bloomberg mulls third-party run – live updates | Trump leads in Iowa as Bloomberg mulls third-party run – live updates |
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| First up on the morning talk shows is governor Chris Christie, who tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that he did a dandy job managing the snowstorm in New Jersey, nothing to fear from icy flooding in coastal cities here. Then they talk politics. | |
| Tapper asks Christie why should Americans elect him president when the governor has a 31% approval rating from New Jerseyans, his lowest ever. That’s only because he’s running for president, Christie says. | |
| When you start looking for another job your current employer gets a little miffed. But i think they saw yesterday what strong effective leadership can do in the midst of a crisis. | |
| He says that his rating has been as a high as 75% “and every place in between”. “I don’t govern for approval ratings I govern for results … when the chips are down I deliver.” | |
| Tapper asks about the possibility of a Bloomberg candidacy. Christie says he can’t judge until the former mayor hits the “relentless nature” of the campaign trail. “That tells you a lot about what kind of person the president will be … when you’re not a candidate you don’t deserve to be evaluated as whether you’d make a good president or not.” | |
| But was he a good mayor? “Oh yeah he was a good mayor, sure.” | |
| How about your rival, senator Marco Rubio? Not so much. | |
| Rubio “has never been responsible for anything … I don’t expect senator Rubio to understand that because he’s never had to make a decision of any consequence.” | |
| He says that life as a US senator reminds him of a school in which everyone does as they’ve been told. | |
| But don’t misunderstand this as being negative about anybody, Christie says. “Governor Kasich has been negative, senator Rubio has been relentlessly negative … Mr Trump has been negative. “We’re simply not going to engage in that game.” | |
| “We will punch back if we feel like we need to but we’re certainly not going to initiate that kind of thing … I think we’re doing just fine.” | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Today’s abbreviated, Sunday edition of the politics blog will take in the talk shows so you don’t have to, plus the highs and lows of a weekend on the trail. Here’s what’s happened over the weekend: | Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Today’s abbreviated, Sunday edition of the politics blog will take in the talk shows so you don’t have to, plus the highs and lows of a weekend on the trail. Here’s what’s happened over the weekend: |
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