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Christie Angling For A Comback
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He could've been our VP, but we ended up with another loser governor (you know the guy. The one who would never have won his gubernatorial re-election).
Oh, how I miss Joe Biden - a real vice-president who would never have said the words Pence said toward North Korea today).
Unfortunately, I think Christie will bounce back one way or another. He's a manipulative opportunistic asshole who knows how not to leave indictable paper trails.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/chris-christie-dangerous-game-donald-trump/amp
With just eight months left in office and the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country, New Jersey’s own Chris Christie seems to be frantically trying to turn the car around before it careens over a guard rail. With the fate of his legacy, and whatever it is Christie has in mind for his post-gubernatorial life, in the balance, he'd better move quick.
Christie has suffered one political wreck after another over the past year. There was a failed presidential bid followed by a failed attempt to cozy up to Donald Trump once Trump won the Republican Party nomination. He was passed over as a vice-presidential pick and later ousted from his post as head of Trump’s transition team days after the election. He had slogged through weeks of brutal testimony during the Bridgegate trial, which led to the conviction of two of his allies on counts of corruption. (Both were recently sentenced to more than a year in prison.) The state’s credit rating has continued to plummet, and last week, a Morning Consult poll found that he was the most unpopular governor in the United States, with 71 percent of New Jersey voters disapproving of Christie and only 25 percent approving.
With the clock running out on a once-promising political career, Christie has clutched the wheel and put his foot on the gas. In recent weeks, Christie has returned to the spotlight after avoiding New Jersey media for nearly 150 days, returning to form in a series of typically acerbic press conferences, of the sort that originally put him on the map as a rising star in the Republican Party. He challenged the state’s largest insurer to help pay for the anti-opioid addiction efforts he spent the entirety of his State of the State speech touting. He reignited a fight with local labor unions; vowed to change the state pension system and how it funds schools; and blasted United Airlines and New Jersey transit for their treatment of passengers
Politico, he talks to the president several times a week, and spent “much of two days in the Oval Office advising Trump.” One source explained that he will often call Christie at night, and drop in a “Chris says” to other aides in conversations.
This has the look of a coordinated effort to show how appreciated he is by the White House, but this may be a fundamental miscalculation. Trump’s own approval ratings have been languishing at historic lows, even during what should be his honeymoon period, so Christie will hardly be buoyed by his connection to the president.
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With just eight months left in office and the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country, New Jersey’s own Chris Christie seems to be frantically trying to turn the car around before it careens over a guard rail. With the fate of his legacy, and whatever it is Christie has in mind for his post-gubernatorial life, in the balance, he'd better move quick.
Christie has suffered one political wreck after another over the past year. There was a failed presidential bid followed by a failed attempt to cozy up to Donald Trump once Trump won the Republican Party nomination. He was passed over as a vice-presidential pick and later ousted from his post as head of Trump’s transition team days after the election. He had slogged through weeks of brutal testimony during the Bridgegate trial, which led to the conviction of two of his allies on counts of corruption. (Both were recently sentenced to more than a year in prison.) The state’s credit rating has continued to plummet, and last week, a Morning Consult poll found that he was the most unpopular governor in the United States, with 71 percent of New Jersey voters disapproving of Christie and only 25 percent approving.
With the clock running out on a once-promising political career, Christie has clutched the wheel and put his foot on the gas. In recent weeks, Christie has returned to the spotlight after avoiding New Jersey media for nearly 150 days, returning to form in a series of typically acerbic press conferences, of the sort that originally put him on the map as a rising star in the Republican Party. He challenged the state’s largest insurer to help pay for the anti-opioid addiction efforts he spent the entirety of his State of the State speech touting. He reignited a fight with local labor unions; vowed to change the state pension system and how it funds schools; and blasted United Airlines and New Jersey transit for their treatment of passengers
Politico, he talks to the president several times a week, and spent “much of two days in the Oval Office advising Trump.” One source explained that he will often call Christie at night, and drop in a “Chris says” to other aides in conversations.
This has the look of a coordinated effort to show how appreciated he is by the White House, but this may be a fundamental miscalculation. Trump’s own approval ratings have been languishing at historic lows, even during what should be his honeymoon period, so Christie will hardly be buoyed by his connection to the president.
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