Chris Christie is set to drop out of the 2024 presidential race
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His departure could make room for Nikki Haley to grow her support in New Hampshire, where Christie had grabbed a slice of anti-Trump Republican voters.
  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    25·
    6 months ago

    ~20m ago

    NYT

    Chris Christie appeared to be caught on a hot mic on his campaign’s livestream… “She’s going to get smoked, and you and I both know it,” Mr. Christie said in the conversation, presumably referring to Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina. “She’s not up to this.”

    • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      That’s super funny since my father is like “oh the anti-trump Republicans will all consolidate behind Haley”

      I think you’re right, she’ll eat shit

      • beardownEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Your dad is right that ~all of the anti-trump Republicans will coalesce around Haley.

        Your dad is wrong for not realizing that anti-Trump Republicans in 2024 are so weak that even that unanimous support will not prevent Haley from absolutely eating shit.

        It’s like saying someone locked up the libertarian vote - that’s nice, but you’re insane if you think that’s a meaningfully significant part of the electorate.

        Anti-Trump Republicans are, at most, 40% of the GOP Primary’s voter base. Meaning, they are grossly insufficent to ever nominate an anti-trump candidate, as ~60% of the party want him as the nominee. Especially in the conservative early states of the primary, like Iowa and South Carolina

        I know you know all of that. But it’s insane that anyone in this country could still be delusional about Trump’s electoral power in 2024. This isn’t 2015. Delusional that people still don’t take him seriously, or that they think Trump is one Howard Dean-yelling scandal away from going away forever

  • ElGosso [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    I’m surprised he stayed in this long. The fact that he ran at all showed that he clearly had no idea what the Republican zeitgeist is, I suppose. I’m sure never-Trump Republicans (if there are any) remember that he tried to hitch his cart to the Trump Train, Trumpers hate that he tried to rebrand himself as a never-Trumper, and Democrats hate him because he’s a Republican and an asshole and he ran New Jersey like it.

    Maybe this was an attempt to get enough publicity on CNN to launch some new wing of his career, but there’s no way it works, because everybody hates him. I guess he could become a second Bill Maher but that niche is already filled by Bill Maher.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      27·
      6 months ago

      Being in the race helped him maintain/build his bullshit brand of being a “reasonable republican” which he uses for his CNN gig, etc. I think CNN gives him something like $400,000 a year.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      19·
      6 months ago

      If Trump wins - I hope Christie grovels for a job in Trump’s administration. Trump strings him along. Christie keeps sucking up. Trump finally says he’ll give Christie a job. Christie continues to sing Trump’s praises telling people who say he’s a hypocrite to “Get over it. Trump won. He’s the republican president and - of course - I’d love to work for an republican administration doing the work of the American people…” And then at the last minute Trump fucks him over by rescinding the job offer.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              6·
              6 months ago

              Time is a flat… you know the thing.

              -–

              For anybody that doesn’t know - there’s great bad blood between Chris Christie on one side and Jared Kushner and his dad on the other. I didn’t quote the intro where Christie shits on Kushner. Instead I jumped to the timeline. A timeline is great for politics I wish sites like the NYT and the WaPo had them too.

              History of Chris Christie’s Feud With Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner

              [Christie’s] beef with the Kushner family goes back much further than this campaign cycle.

              2004

              Christie, then serving as US attorney in New Jersey, investigated and successfully prosecuted Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, who pleaded guilty to “16 counts of assisting in the filing of false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission,” per the DOJ. Charles Kushner spent 14 months in prison.

              2016

              Christie, then governor of New Jersey, dropped out of the GOP presidential primary in February after coming in sixth in the New Hampshire primary (despite savaging Sen. Marco Rubio in a debate). Two weeks later, in a shock endorsement ahead of Super Tuesday, Christie backed Trump, who had very few mainstream politicians backing him and zero governors.

              However, that pivotal endorsement did not get Christie a role on Trump’s team when he won the presidency. In November 2016, he was out as the head of Trump’s transition team and replaced by then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Jared Kushner went on to work for four years at the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law.

              2019

              Christie claimed in his 2019 memoir “Let Me Finish” that more than ten years later, his successful prosecution of Charles Kushner led to Jared ousting him from the top spot of Trump’s 2016 transition team. When asked about the beef between Christie and the younger Kushner in 2019 by PBS’s Margaret Hoover, Christie responded: “Mr. Kushner pled guilty, he admitted the crimes. So what am I supposed to do as a prosecutor?”

              “If a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and videotapes it and then sends the videotape to his sister in an attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?” Christie continued, referring to Charles Kushner’s plot: “I mean, it’s one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney, and I was a US attorney in New Jersey, Margaret — so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there!”

              2020

              During Trump’s 2020 campaign, Christie again emerged and helped Trump, working to prepare him to debate Biden in late September 2020. A defeated Trump pardoned Charles Kushner two months later, on December 23, 2020.

              2023

              In the intervening years, Christie has changed his tune and stepped into a role as an outspoken critic of Trump. An attorney for Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A representative for Jared Kushner could not immediately be reached.