THIS IS gonna be interesting…..
The other 2024 Republican Presidential nomination sweepstakes contestants are only taking baby steps against Trump …worried about HIS base and attacking back….
We’ll see how it plays……
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s 2024 bid is likely to put his criticism of Donald Trump front and center, offering a test of just how much appetite there is in the GOP for an explicitly anti-Trump candidate.
Christie’s expected presidential bid has been greeted with skepticism from Republicans, some of whom suggest his candidacy is a mere vanity project, while others are quick to point out that Christie, while a vocal Trump critic now, had worked closely to help reelect the former president in 2020.
But even some of those Republicans acknowledge that the former New Jersey governor’s pugilistic style could have an impact on the field, and potentially even damage Trump to a degree.
“If it’s not a vanity campaign, I think its value…is that he can go in there and throw the hard punches and maybe other candidates in the field can benefit from that,” said GOP strategist Jason Cabel Roe, who worked on presidential campaigns for Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) in 2008 and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in 2016.
Much of the 2024 GOP field has largely avoided taking on Trump as Republican contenders navigate the tricky dance of embracing positions and policies that were popular among conservatives during the Trump administration while differentiating themselves from the former president himself….
Christie will announce tonight in NH…..
He WILL get media attention because of his direct go Trump and his ability to say thinmgs that work in the media….
55 Things You Need to Know About Chris Christie
“He is almost Trump’s equal in showbiz and his superior in invective, so he can do some damage,” Peggy Noonan wrote last week in the Wall Street Journal. “Would it be a suicide mission? I don’t know. But those kamikazes took out a lot of tankers.”
What do people need to know about Christopher James Christie, beefy, brash and “addicted” to attention? Here, culled from his many, many interviews, the array of in-depth profiles over the years, the books written about him and the books written by him, is a long, loud list of a reminder….
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