Hmm. Very interesting dynamics ...this bromance. I always imagined Christie the Chairman of the GOP governors forum one individual who would not stand for being pushed around or is he auditioning??
Caught on a hot mic shuffling Chris Christie off the stage after hearing his ringing endorsement
Christie had just slammed Marco Rubio as a no-show senator and praised Trump as a no-nonsense businessman
Caught on a hot mic shuffling Chris Christie off the stage after hearing his ringing endorsement
Christie had just slammed Marco Rubio as a no-show senator and praised Trump as a no-nonsense businessman
That
was Donald Trump, was overheard telling his
newest endorser Chris Christie in front of 12,000 people exactly where
to go and how to get there. Christie
had just sung The Donald's praises following the dramatic entrance of
his plane in a stunt the campaign invented a month ago in Dubuque, Iowa. more importantly, he had trashed Marco Rubio.
BEFORE THE SNUB: Donald Trump and
Chris Christie exited the billionaire's private Boeing 757 in
Millington, Tennessee together, but moments later Trump seemed to be
telling him to get on another plane and go home
SUNSETS WITH DONALD: Trump gave his second speech of the day following another airport hangar stop in Bentonville, Arkanssa
ENDORSEMENT TOUR": Christie, the
governor of New Jersey, has been a fixture on Trump's campaign circuit
since he gave his endorsement on Friday afternoon
Christie told the packed crowd of ' he's gonna work as hard as he can as long as he can to win the
Republican nomination.'
'That would be something new for Marco Rubio – to show up to work at all!'
'How
about a refund, Senator Rubio?' he asked of the senator who has skipped
more hearings on Capitol Hill than he's attended in five years on the
job.
As Christie
and Trump strode down a set of tarmac stairs from what Trumps plane now
calls 'Hair Force One' to the strains of Marc Cohn's 'Walking in
Memphis,' a hat tip to the music city just a half hour's drive away.
A deafening roar set the scene. Christie knocked young Marco out of the park. And then Trump showed him the back of his hand.
'It was, as one Twitter wag opined, the political political equivalent of leaving the money on the nightstand.'
'MAKING AMERICA HATE AGAIN': One leftist protester crashed Trump's party, and The Donald's supporters tore up his protest sign
JUST ONE PROBLEM: When Trump called
for security to remove the protester, the crowd was so densely packed
that no one could reach the man for four minutes
Christie
actually stuck around for Trump's speech, but the impact of a 9-second
video clip of Trump sending him off rocketed around the Internet in mere
seconds. Trump
is laboring to provide voters a set of stark contrasts – between career
politicians and businessmen, between public servants on the take and
altruistic populists.
Instead,
the message his quick dismissal of Christie sent is one of
short-selling loyalty, and Rubio's upstart campaign may well take
advantage of it.
Trump
has found himself hammered in recent days by Rubio, a first-term
Florida senator 25 years his junior who has tried to beat the
billionaire at his own schoolyard-taunt game.
'Two-thirds of the Republican Party has been waiting for someone to land a glove on him (Trump), and it's not like anyone is going to feel sorry for him. What's not to like?' - Rubio aide
Rubio has openly mocked The Donald's
occasionally misspelled tweets and made a joke in a stump speech about
the possibility that Trump may have wet himself during Thursday's debate
in Houston. A
Rubio aide familiar with campaign strategy was quoted as saying it was 'a conscious decision' to take a
harder line with Trump beginning on debate night.
'The timing was right,' he said, 'and the opening was there. It was easy.'
'Two-thirds
of the Republican Party has been waiting for someone to land a glove on
him, and it's not like anyone is going to feel sorry for him. What's
not to like?'
Trump
stole his thunder right back on Friday with a stunning endorsment from
Christie, the New Jersey governor and former White House candidate who
had dismantled Rubio during a New Hampshire debate a month earlier.
By Saturday the ball was back in Rubio's court.
MARCOMENTUM: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio
has trashed Trump at every opportunity, mocking his 'spray tan' and
suggesting he's a litigious blowhard
THE ANTI-TRUMPETERS: Rubio's crowd mad it clear Saturday in Georgia who they
The front-runner was not amused on Saturday in Tennessee.
'You deal with liars, you deal with major, major sleaze' in politics, he observed. 'Do we know what sleaze is?'
He's leading Rubio, he said, by 22 points in the senator's native Florida.
'If
he ran in Florida today for an office, he couldn't run for dogcatcher,'
trump said. 'He wouldn't be elected. ... He's unelectable. And we're
going to beat him badly in Florida.'
'His new thing is he's gotta be tough now, you know, a tough guy, right? This is not a tough person, believe me.'
Trump called him 'little Marco' repeatedly.
MASSIVE TURNOUT: A
cavernous airport hangar accommodated more than 12,000 people at
dinnertime on Saturday, according to local authorities
GET THERE EARLY: Hours before the
venue filled up to the edges, Wesley Jones of Millington, Tennessee
posed for pictures dressed as Uncle Sam
'Can you imagine Rubio negotiating with Putin?' he asked.
'And he walks into the room and he's pouring sweat, and Putin says, "Man, what's wrong with that guy?"'
And he slipped in one double-edged slam against both Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
'We got double-teamed by two crooked senators,' he said of the Houston debate.
"You have one who's a liar and then you have the other one who may be a worse liar, that's Rubio.'
'I
will say this: Cruz is smarter than Rubio,' Trump added in a backhanded
compliment. 'I will let you know in a few months who's the better
liar.'
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