It is time to stop being afraid of any one person'
Sure, Chris! You're the exact same MAGAt as trump! Only fatter!
On Friday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ordered beaches across the Garden State closed – a reaction to the ongoing budget impasse in the state’s legislature.
Less than 48 hours later, photos from NJ Advance Media showed Christie sunning himself with his family on Island Beach State Park – the only people on the beach because, well, the governor had closed it.
Trump faces potential fundraising problem as megadonors jump ship
by Karl Evers-Hillstrom - 11/19/22 5:57 AM ET
Former President Trump could face a surprising problem as he mounts his 2024 campaign: a cash crunch as wealthy megadonors gravitate toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and other potential contenders.
A loyal army of small-dollar donors will power Trump’s presidential bid, potentially making up for the exodus of billionaire backers, but they’ve shown signs of scaling back their giving.
And while Trump’s political machine is starting off with a war chest of more than $110 million, federal law prevents him from using most of that money to advance his White House campaign.
Meanwhile, Trump’s political committees are shelling out huge sums on his legal defense, totals that only seem likely to rise after the Department of Justice on Friday appointed a special counsel to oversee probes into him.
"Christie rebukes Trump: ‘It is time to stop whispering…It is time to stop being afraid of any one person' "
Today even Will says only maybe -- Opinion If Trump runs in 2024, he may find Chris Christie ready to rumble
By George F. Will Columnist | December 10, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST
Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey, speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas in November. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/AP)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – The New Jersey political style is simmering truculence between brawls. Chris Christie, the state’s former two-term Republican governor, indicates — by his words and, as important, his demeanor of surplus pugnacity — that he is spoiling for a fight. Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates
He is brimful of combativeness, even when, on a recent evening, his attention was divided among Republicans’ misadventures, President Biden’s shortcomings and a plate of pasta. Christie might find an outlet for his spiritedness in the Republicans’ 2024 presidential competition. Donald Trump should not assume that he can avoid Republican opposition if he becomes the first former president since Theodore Roosevelt .. https://newrepublic.com/article/160212/republican-party-dead-its-trump-cult-now .. in 1912 to reenter presidential politics. If Trump hopes to be the second president, after Grover Cleveland .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/grover-cleveland/ .. in 1888, to regain the presidency after losing a reelection bid, he might find Christie ready to rumble.
VIDEO - Christie urges Republicans to focus on the future 1:43 Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie told a crowd in Las Vegas on Nov. 6 to seek leaders with “a plan for tomorrow, not a grievance about yesterday.” (Video: The Washington Post)
Jeffrey H. Anderson, president of the American Main Street Initiative, argues .. https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-new-main-street-coalition/ .. (in the Claremont Review of Books) that the Republican road to the White House runs through Big Ten .. https://www.espn.com/college-football/standings/_/group/5 .. country: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa. In two elections, Trump won more victories in these states (7) than Republican presidential candidates had won over the previous seven elections combined. Christie’s implicit case for himself is that he can appeal to the Trumpist majority of the Republican base without further debasing it, the GOP and the nation.
With his new book “Republican Rescue .. shorturl.at/aAET6 ,” Christie begins reacquainting Trump voters with reality. The book often is an awkward mixture of strategic reticence and obvious evasions, but not on one important point: He demolishes what he calls the “drivel” about fraud stealing the 2020 election. Readers will be in no doubt about the identity of the prime driveler.
On election night, when Trump cried fraud, Christie says he was shocked. But he pointedly notes that weeks earlier, when Trump was asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power, he replied, “Well, we’ll have to see what happens.” Christie writes that he thought Trump had “better have evidence” of fraud. But Christie mercilessly dissects Trump’s years of indifference to evidence — his original flight of “inflammation without information” — regarding Barack Obama’s birthplace.
The book’s schizophrenia is so undisguised it seems tactical. Christie is daring to acknowledge, and demonstrating a willingness to undertake, the political contortions necessary to propel the Republican Party up from Trump, away from performative entertainment and back to politics. Christie is saying: No one worked harder than I did to put my friend of 20 years in office and keep him there, and he is a liar, and a relic.
Christie says he does not want to make his divergences from Trump “personal,” but he surely knows that for Trump everything is personal. Christie inveighs against “wallowing in the past” and “the quicksand of endless grievances.” In Florida, the thick man with the thin skin is not wondering to whom Christie refers, and will not be forgiving just because Christie was, as he repeatedly reminds readers, “the first major officeholder” to endorse Trump.
The Trump parenthesis in Republican politics will not end without a fight. One pugilist seems ready.
George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977. His latest book, "American Happiness and Discontents," was released in September 2021. Twitter
Noted George F gives reasons why Christie should run, yet does not mention he failed early in 2016 -
Inside Chris Christie’s failed campaign By Phil Mattingly, CNN Updated 4:23 AM EST, Thu February 11, 2016 [...] In the end, Christie could not get past both his own personal baggage and his status as another governor of a moderate or blue state selling his personal appeal during a general election campaign to a Republican base clearly looking for new blood. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/chris-christie-drops-out-2016-election/index.html
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