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Scarborough: Rubio's 'Dirty--Um--Dark Money' Drove Christie Down
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/11/2016 4:26:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough forcefully sought to refute the notion that Chris Christie's takedown of Marco Rubio in the last GOP debate was an unprovoked attack. Scarborough painted a very different picture, one in which by dint of his town hall work, Christie had been steadily climbing in the New Hampshire polls--until Rubio unleashed a wave of negative advertising on Christie that drove his numbers back down. It was only then that Christie counter-attacked, suggested Joe.

Scarborough said pundits were either "ignorant" or "lying" to their readers if they portrayed Christie as "mean" for having exposed Rubio as he did, or that Christie's poor performance in New Hampshire was the result of a backlash against his attack. Noteworthy was Scarborough's statement that the funding for Rubio's attack ads against Christie was "dark" money. At one point, Scarborough called it "dirty" money, before correcting himself and repeating "dark" money.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: chrischristie; darkmoney; joescarborough; marcorubio
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To: Fhios

“I wonder if this is a prelude to Christie supporting Trump.”


Christie never really did hit Trump. When Steve Hayes interviewed him he said Trump was qualified and would make a good president.


21 posted on 02/11/2016 6:33:21 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Lee'sGhost

She creeps me out. Its like a Stepford wife thing to me. She is just vacant, vapid.


22 posted on 02/11/2016 6:44:37 AM PST by Cats Pajamas (Trump and Cruz, snakes or not I say let's send our meanest snake to take out the Clinton snake!)
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To: CaptainK
Christie never got any traction because he will never be forgiven for the Obama hug. Period.

That, as well. His muslim judicial appointment and defense of 9/11 mosque didn't help, either.

23 posted on 02/11/2016 7:02:51 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The Dems are the ones that have no hope. That party destroyed itself.

The dems command support of 48% of this country's electorate and walk into election day with a guarantee of 240 EVs. This country is rife with low-info idiots who, like the semi-trained chimps they are, know just enough to vote for whatever name sports a "(D)." Never, ever count the dems out.

24 posted on 02/11/2016 7:08:27 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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