Sen. Marco Rubio “wants to make nice with Chris Christie,” Politico reports.

“After a heated exchange with the New Jersey governor during a debate a week ago that left Rubio repeating canned lines and devaluing his New Hampshire primary showing, the Florida senator said Sunday his staff has reached out to Christie to make amends.”

Said Rubio: “I want to be clear I have no animus toward Chris. I like him very much. I always have. This is a political campaign. It’s a competitive environment, and people are going to exchange. And we gave as good as we got.”

Gov. Chris Christie said that Hilary Clinton would eat his rival Sen. Marco Rubio alive if the two were to go head-to-head in the general election, TPM reports.

Said Christie: “You can’t put an amateur on the debate stage. She will eat him alive.”

“I think the whole race changed last night. There was a march among some of the chattering class to anoint Senator Rubio. I think after last night that’s over.”

— Gov. Chris Christie, quoted by Politico, suggesting there “could be four or five tickets now out of New Hampshire, because the race is so unsettled.”

Associated Press: “An Iowa couple whose son is heading to Iraq made such an impression on GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie that he’s made them a staple of his New Hampshire stump speech this week. But while the couple came away from the encounter just as impressed, they supported rival Marco Rubio in the state’s caucuses.”

“Frustrated and flailing as his candidacy threatens to slip away, Gov. Chris Christie is embarking on a scalding effort over the next week to discredit Sen. Marco Rubio, the man he blames for undermining his campaign and whose ascendancy he deeply resents,” the New York Times reports.

“And Mr. Christie has a secret ally: Jeb Bush.”

“Mr. Christie, whose White House hopes hinge on a strong showing in New Hampshire, is unleashing the kind of cutting and personal attacks that brought him renown in New Jersey but that pose a far greater risk in a presidential campaign, where they can harm the assailant as much as the intended target.”

“Maybe he’ll do more than 40 minutes on a little stage telling everybody his canned speech that he’s memorized… Let’s get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble.”

— Gov. Chris Christie, quoted by the Washington Post, blasting Marco Rubio’s tightly-controlled campaign appearances.

Gov. Chris Christie, “smarting from weeks of negative commercials against him in New Hampshire, has struck back at several Republican opponents in animated appearances on the campaign trail this week,” the New York Times reports.

“One rival has drawn especially biting attacks: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Mr. Christie has long criticized Mr. Rubio for lacking executive experience. But in recent days he has dialed up his attacks, repeatedly deriding Mr. Rubio as a political lightweight in a tone that verges on contempt.”