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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.

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To: Coleus
The recent disclosures regarding these investigations have strengthened my position.

What recent disclosures?

81 posted on 01/31/2019 12:46:43 PM PST by upsdriver (WWG1WGA)
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To: Coleus

Writing of this caliber is why the Star Ledger is about a half hour from going out of business.


82 posted on 01/31/2019 12:50:38 PM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Coleus

Chris Christie will be seen as the guy relaxing on a beach he closed to the public. Another will be a big traffic jam because of a bridge he had closed.


83 posted on 01/31/2019 1:00:37 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Coleus

Alan J. Steinberg is out in left field with this supposition. Trump will not be resigning in 2019. Even if Trump for some reason is not able to finish his term, Pence would be a suitable replacement. As far as Chris Christy is concerned, he can forget ever being elected President. Republican voters just do not vote that way. If he were the candidate, it would insure a democratic victory.


84 posted on 01/31/2019 1:21:54 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (I)
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To: Coleus

Typo. They mean 2024.


85 posted on 01/31/2019 1:22:39 PM PST by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: dfwgator

Laurel and Hardy!


86 posted on 01/31/2019 1:47:43 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Coleus

Objective is for Trump to spend money and time on the primaries. Making it easier for dems


87 posted on 01/31/2019 2:07:49 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Coleus

“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”

I also have a prediction:

If Trump is not allowed to serve his full term as president, those of us who elected him will become a multi-million man armed militia and come to Washington to take out the trash.

It is better to die free than to live under tyranny. Aspiring tyrants better beware. Anyone who supports an unjust, dishonest impeachment will be signing their own death warrant.


88 posted on 01/31/2019 2:29:36 PM PST by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: Coleus

Trump will be the President until 2027. The supreme court will rule that he gets 2 extra years for the spygate and the Special Prosecutor abuse and lying.


89 posted on 01/31/2019 3:29:07 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Coleus

Total nonsense. Trump will not be resigning.


90 posted on 01/31/2019 5:26:13 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Good point. There are a lot of reasons this is so, but just one is that capitalism doesn’t work without trust and where there is no goodness there is no trust.


91 posted on 01/31/2019 5:50:05 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

I mean, seriously, what social leftist politician in either party pushes for fiscal responsibility ? They are as elusive as unicorns.


92 posted on 01/31/2019 6:56:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Chris Christie has a much better chance of making commercials for Nutrisystem than winning nomination.


93 posted on 01/31/2019 7:18:48 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: nonliberal

Typo. They mean 2024.>>>

 

The author of the article thinks trump will resign this year in 2019

 

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.

94 posted on 01/31/2019 7:29:48 PM PST by Coleus (Vivat Jesus)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Demagogic Party nimrod Alan J. Steinberg: 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.

95 posted on 01/31/2019 11:39:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Coleus

You forgot the [Barf Alert]


96 posted on 02/01/2019 7:10:20 AM PST by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: Coleus
Christie is too close to Whitman, Kean, Frelinghuysen, lance and other RINO's. He will never win.

This article is so full of deluded hypotheticals that there isn't any need to worry about Christie "winning" anything. Trump isn't going to resign and Christie won't be challenging him (or Pence) in 2020.

While we're on the subject, I never understood why Christie and Giuliani, two liberal Republicans well to the Left of Mitt Romney or John McCain, have a small but dedicated fanbase around here. They deserve half a clap for being better than the Democrat alternatives in NJ and NYC (as Romney was in MA), but that isn't saying much.

97 posted on 02/01/2019 7:48:23 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Coleus; fieldmarshaldj

Forget that Cristie Cream is “close with RINOs”

BRIDGEGATE, he left office less popular than dog poop, he’s not viable, period.


98 posted on 02/02/2019 8:32:37 AM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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