HENNIKER, N.H. — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio continued to peg fellow Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie as a candidate who’s stood by and supported President Obama during a town hall Friday.
“Chris Christie supports judges I would never have supported,” the 44-year-old senator told a packed auditorium at New England College. Rubio was referring to comments made by Christie in 2009 when Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, an outspoken liberal judge, to the Supreme Court.
“He denies he supported her but I have his quote right here,” Rubio said, pulling out a piece of paper to read Christie’s own words.
“I support her appointment to the Supreme Court and urge the Senate to keep politics out of the process and confirm her nomination,” Rubio read.
Christie strongly rebuked the claim that he ever supported Sotomayor during Thursday’s GOP primary debate, telling the crowd: “First of all, I didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor.”
Minutes before tearing into the New Jersey governor, Rubio told his audience Friday, “I don’t like negative campaigns.”
Rubio and Christie are third and fourth, respectively, in the Washington Examiner’s post-debate presidential power rankings.
