Two weeks ago I would have said and probably did say that Christie would most likely hang on to the end just for a chance to mouth off and be the warrior underdog type of thing- and he has nothing else to do anyway and it is a way to remain in the news.
Problem for him though is that he knows that he tried that whole routine in 2016 and ended out deeply humiliated and making hostage videos and came out looking like a stockholm syndrome prisoner. Thus he has a magic number in his head, below which he knows that he needs to get out without looking like a totally humiliated clown.
Just being low in the polls is not enough, because he is plenty willing to soldier on if he is seen as a soldier soldiering on. But he is falling below that now. Sununu endorsing Nikki was predictable. And he is polling third in the only state where he has a presence - New Hampshire. And, once again, Trump outsmarted him. There is no point in this primary where Christie is going to be tasking Trump down face to face on stage- which was his entire proised shtick.
I would not be surprised now to see him drop out before New Hampshire while taking credit for consolidating behind Haley. It's his only way out now without it looking like both Haley and Trump cut his balls off. Also, I noticed that Haley referred to Christie "as a friend" thus signaling that she work a graceful exit for him and also give him some slob job in a Haley administration. To not drop out before NH would take that off the table for him. She would just treat him as a fat slob prick that made things more difficult when he could have done the right thing.
Getting to be time to go over to Home Depot and get a big can of SLOB B' GONE.
It’s Time for Chris Christie to Go
Look, it’s a free country. And all other things being equal, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has every right to humiliate himself with a doomed presidential campaign that is only even remotely viable in one state, New Hampshire.
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But when a campaign comes into direct conflict with its ostensible goal, a reconsideration is in order. As most of us concluded weeks if not months ago, the effect of a Christie candidacy is basically to keep a more viable non-Trump candidate, Nikki Haley, from a potential breakthrough in New Hampshire that would give her a distant chance of posing a real challenge to Donald Trump’s nomination. Since the prime directive of Christie ’24 is allegedly to save the GOP from the 45th president, it no longer makes any sense for him to stick around and take up oxygen in the very crowded room of a Granite State primary campaign.
It’s Time for Chris Christie to Go (msn.com)
Problem for him though is that he knows that he tried that whole routine in 2016 and ended out deeply humiliated and making hostage videos and came out looking like a stockholm syndrome prisoner. Thus he has a magic number in his head, below which he knows that he needs to get out without looking like a totally humiliated clown.
Just being low in the polls is not enough, because he is plenty willing to soldier on if he is seen as a soldier soldiering on. But he is falling below that now. Sununu endorsing Nikki was predictable. And he is polling third in the only state where he has a presence - New Hampshire. And, once again, Trump outsmarted him. There is no point in this primary where Christie is going to be tasking Trump down face to face on stage- which was his entire proised shtick.
I would not be surprised now to see him drop out before New Hampshire while taking credit for consolidating behind Haley. It's his only way out now without it looking like both Haley and Trump cut his balls off. Also, I noticed that Haley referred to Christie "as a friend" thus signaling that she work a graceful exit for him and also give him some slob job in a Haley administration. To not drop out before NH would take that off the table for him. She would just treat him as a fat slob prick that made things more difficult when he could have done the right thing.
Getting to be time to go over to Home Depot and get a big can of SLOB B' GONE.
It’s Time for Chris Christie to Go
Look, it’s a free country. And all other things being equal, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has every right to humiliate himself with a doomed presidential campaign that is only even remotely viable in one state, New Hampshire.
,
But when a campaign comes into direct conflict with its ostensible goal, a reconsideration is in order. As most of us concluded weeks if not months ago, the effect of a Christie candidacy is basically to keep a more viable non-Trump candidate, Nikki Haley, from a potential breakthrough in New Hampshire that would give her a distant chance of posing a real challenge to Donald Trump’s nomination. Since the prime directive of Christie ’24 is allegedly to save the GOP from the 45th president, it no longer makes any sense for him to stick around and take up oxygen in the very crowded room of a Granite State primary campaign.
It’s Time for Chris Christie to Go (msn.com)
