And whether you can see it or not Christie is the only candidate really trying to take support away from Trump.
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Where are apart is that you buy into Christie's mentality and strategy- ie. unless you are 100% committed to attacking trump 24/7 and make that your one and only strategy that you are not "really trying to take support away from Trump."
Nope. That's just you and Christie being two peas in a pod. Others, do not think that is a viable strategy but are 100% committed to taking support away from Trump. Vivek for example has doubled his support in the last three weeks but is 100% committed to taking as much of Trump's support as he can get. Your binary mind is your archilles heel as always. One can be 100% committed to taking Trump's support but not believe that being junkyard dog against Trump is the way to go. Those are not either/or positions.
And as far as Trump "not losing support" that too is not binary either/or. As I said yesterday he will lose some support, maybe down from 50 to 30 but still in the lead. But you cannot process that because your binary mind sees "losing some support" as "losing the lead." Nope, those also are not mutually incompatible. You lose support and still be in the lead and still win, but just be off of your high.
I see that Christie is leading in New Hampshire ahead of trump now according to some poll. Which I suppose you or others could argue that that counters my statements about Christie, if you overlook the fact that yesterday I specifically said that I can see Christie and a couple others having their 15 minutes of fame and in regard to Christie "particularly in the New Hampshire primary which is the only place that he has focused on." Nope, that too fits with what I said. But overall he is a dud. Trump is going to experience as I have said ten times, a 20 point mean reversion before this is over. But he may still be in the lead.
Although all analysis, yours included along with mine, is, my mind superceded, by some Rumsfeldian factor that make this something other than a Trump versus Biden race to the end. Could be on the pub side, could be on the dem side, could be on the independent side. Don't know. Could be from natural causes, could be from political causes, could be from an unknown unknown.