yesterday and carnival barkers of today into something that will change american lives for the better, we must elect someone who has been tested. so the d.c. insiders, marco rubio and ted cruz. politicians of yesterday, i think jeb bush in his world. and carnival barkers, i assume he is talking about donald trump. that leaves in chris christie s world, chris christie. exactly. maybe john kasich fits the bill. maybe it was a campaign effort for john kasich. chris christie is making a play for new hampshire right now. he is trying to become the establishment candidate. the dark horse to really consolidate establishment support. he does kind of have an opening here in he has the bombast and big personality of trump. he has the experience of someone in office and politics. he might be more of a known
commodity. he is really trying to consolidate the establishment support. especially attract people who might think jeb bush doesn t have it this year and marco rubio might be a bit too plastic or something like that. so you re seeing him and rubio going at each other at this point. yeah, the first term senator thing, especially, is an effective attack on rubio, cruz, rand paul. portraying them as the gop version of president obama. eric, thank you for joining us. a special programming note. anderson cooper joins president obama for the town hall live. the president will take questions from the live studio audience. that will be interesting. a town hall on guns in america with the president moderated by anderson this thursday at 8:00
but david, we know that first it seemed his campaign was all new hampshire, new hampshire, new hampshire, and now apparently they re splitting time between iowa, new hampshire and i wonder do you think he thinks he has a shot there? no, i think what you re going to see sorry, kathy. sorry, david. i didn t mean to cut in on you either. i think he thinks he has a shot in iowa. he has some establishment support from terry branstedt s people, the main stream republican governor of iowa and you know, he is i think getting bigger crowds here and also seeing i think an opportunity to do better than people expect in the mainstream republican lane. it s not necessarily whether you win but who you beat in iowa. i think chris christie is still a new hampshire or bust candidate. i really don t think iowa is a big part of his path to the nomination necessarily but i think it is important what kathy is saying there. it s not always about just going in to win.
voters will head to the polls on february 9th. trump has more than double the support of his second rival. chris christie, jeb bush and kasich are going all in on new hampshire. in one of them or rubio can consolidate enough establishment support, they have a chance to take trump down. the problem is they are splitting the establishment vote which is why each is trying to cast himself as the one and only true trump alternative. what would you like to say to him should he walk into the room right now? i ll take you on one-on-one. the newspaper which endorsed christie unleashed a blissering editorial calling trump a, quote, crude blow hard whose campaign insults people s intelligence.
that establishment support consolidate behind one of those candidates before primary day? remember, not included in that establishment lane is ted cruz. cruz is tied for the second-place spot, he is counting on iowa evangelicals to help him shift support from trump to capture iowa. snagging either iowa or new hampshire has been a must in modern republican politics. no one, no candidate in the modern era has ever won the gop s nomination without either state. and joining me now is the publisher behind that searing trump editorial, joseph mcquaid of the new hampshire union leader. i m sure you ve read or heard the response from donald trump. he calls you a low life, he krits a number of examples, favors you asked him to do, and says in the end, this is what you chose to do. he calls you a low life. want to get your response to that. well, it s long overdue. i ve been awaiting something