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After Trump exits office, President Pence will be challenged in 2020 by Chris Christie
The Star Ledger of Newark ^ | 01.31.19 | Alan J. Steinberg

Posted on 01/31/2019 9:44:14 AM PST by Coleus

On New Year’s Day this year, I predicted in a column published here that under pressure of various governmental investigations, Donald Trump will be compelled to resign from the presidency before the end of 2019. The recent disclosures regarding these investigations have strengthened my position.

Upon Trump’s resignation from the presidency, Vice President Mike Pence will become the president. Pence, however, will be a very poor reelection prospect in 2020.

Mike and Karen Pence, his wife, have a well-deserved reputation for extremism on social issues, particularly on issues affecting gay and lesbian voters. The Pences possess a “kook” factor they won’t be able to shake loose due to their advocacy of far-right social issue positions.

So the search will be on for an alternative 2020 Republican presidential candidate to Mike Pence. Given the ability of the Trump base to veto any such alternative, the Pence opponent must not be somebody identified as a Trump adversary. That rules out former Ohio Gov. John Kasich or Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse.

The Republican who will emerge as the opponent to Pence will be none other than former Gov. Chris Christie, a man of irrepressible ambition who has never relinquished his presidential aspirations. And his service in the 2016 Trump campaign ensures his acceptability to the Trump base.

In case you’re wondering, this is not an endorsement. If you’ve read my commentary before, you know that no New Jersey Republican criticized both Christie’s tenure as governor and his failed 2016 presidential run more vehemently than I.

Yet, I must be dispassionate and divorce my personal views of Christie from any assessment as to his past performance and his future viability as a candidate for the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana; US: Nebraska; US: New Jersey; US: Ohio
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To: Coleus

This author has TERMINAL TDS!..................


21 posted on 01/31/2019 9:52:48 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Conserv

Yep. Same here

Power corrupts the big ego


22 posted on 01/31/2019 9:52:53 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" JOBS or MOBS? Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Coleus

Dead Man Walking


23 posted on 01/31/2019 9:53:02 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Coleus

This guy claims to be Republican...*ROFLMAO*


24 posted on 01/31/2019 9:53:04 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Coleus

HOR53SH17!!!

KYPD


25 posted on 01/31/2019 9:53:12 AM PST by petro45acp (All those disopian movies? applefacebookgoogletwitteryahooutoob....you are the bad guys!)
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To: Coleus

The rats and the media will give Christie the same treatment they are giving Trump. It will be endless reports of Bridgegate and Beachgate.


26 posted on 01/31/2019 9:54:03 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Coleus

Served in the EPA???Would he have been the guy that told Christy Todd Whitman that Ground Zero was safe two weeks after 9/11?


27 posted on 01/31/2019 9:54:51 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Coleus

Another Romney-winger of the corporate liberal party.


28 posted on 01/31/2019 9:55:32 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: All

Newsflash! Alan J. Steinberg is a delusional moron.


29 posted on 01/31/2019 9:56:05 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Coleus

Steinberg is off his meds.


30 posted on 01/31/2019 9:56:56 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: gibsonguy

Alan Steinberg eats LSD like candy corn.


31 posted on 01/31/2019 9:58:09 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Coleus

Alan J. Steinberg needs to upgrade his fantasy:

- Surely Pence will recognize that he benefited from unlawful collusion.
- As a devout Christian, Pence will be unable to bear that shame and will also resign.
- Pelosi, presented with the opportunity to become the First Woman President will recognize that Hillary deserves the honor more,
- so Pelosi will call an immediate House vote for Speaker, personally nominating Hillary Clinton as Speaker of the House.
- Hillary will win by acclimation minutes before Pence’s resignation goes into effect.

And that’s how Hillary will become the First Woman President, as she was always meant to be.

The deeper into insanity leftists descend, the more I enjoy laughing at them. Who will win in 2020 though, in this bizarro fictional world, President Hillary, or Governor Christie?


32 posted on 01/31/2019 9:58:28 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Coleus

“Mike and Karen Pence, his wife, have a well-deserved reputation for extremism on social issues, particularly on issues affecting gay and lesbian voters.”

In other words, if you are a bible believing Christian, you are an extremist on social issues. You must jettison your Bible and do what the Sexually Perverted tell you to do. Or else.


33 posted on 01/31/2019 9:58:32 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: miserare

I would look for a Pence alternative. He is GOPe and has been very absent in aggressively defending Trump.


34 posted on 01/31/2019 9:59:31 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Coleus

So yinz guys can just rip him to shreds in the General Election over Bridgegate? No thank you.


35 posted on 01/31/2019 10:00:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: xkaydet65

Served in the EPA???Would he have been the guy that told Christy Todd Whitman that Ground Zero was safe two weeks after 9/11? >>

You’re right about that, he may have been the one...


36 posted on 01/31/2019 10:00:21 AM PST by Coleus (Vivat Jesus)
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To: Coleus

Trump staying safe, neither of those guys will ever be president.


37 posted on 01/31/2019 10:01:25 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Coleus

What about Christie’s career as a high fashion model? What happens to that when he runs for President in 2020?


38 posted on 01/31/2019 10:01:29 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Coleus

If Donald Trump is forced to resign or is impeached and convicted, my advice to the GOP is to save some money and don’t bother to nominate a candidate in 2020.


39 posted on 01/31/2019 10:03:31 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Pence is a walking cadaver.


40 posted on 01/31/2019 10:04:08 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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