Candidates spend less time in N.H. as influence slips
MANCHESTER, N.H. — It seemed clear this week why Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker isn’t planning to spend much time here in New Hampshire.
During an hour-long stop at a pizza parlor on Monday, voters grilled him on immigration and how exactly he would combat the Islamic State. Liberal activists tricked him into posing with a fake check from billionaire donors. And outside a protester jumped on top of a car and shouted, “You’re afraid to answer the real questions!”
Like many other Republican candidates, Walker is spending relatively little time campaigning in this first-in-the-nation primary state, banking instead on winning the Iowa caucuses and then stockpiling delegates from the South and elsewhere.
“For us, we’re running a nationwide campaign; we’re not just running an early-state campaign,” Walker said at a cheesesteak shop in Philadelphia last week. “With the quality of the field .?.?. it may go as far as even being close to the convention before we know who the ultimate nominee is.”
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