POLL: Rubio Surges In New Hampshire, Triples Number

Marco Rubio has more than tripled his polling number in New Hampshire following a strong performance at last week’s CNBC debate. The Hill reports:

The Florida senator surged to third place, behind real estate mogul Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, in the Monmouth University poll of the state’s likely Republican primary voters. While Rubio trails Trump by 13 points, he is within 3 percentage points of Carson. Crucially, the poll also has Rubio overtaking former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his faltering home-state rival who over the weekend guaranteed that he would win New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. “Marco Rubio’s standout performance in the last debate seems to have paid dividends in a contest that was supposed to be dominated by his former mentor, Jeb Bush,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, N.J.

Trump has reacted as you’d expect, adding that Rubio isn’t as good-looking as he is.