Chris Christie planning to enter GOP presidential primary next week in NH

The New York Post ^ | 05/31/2023 | Josh Christenson

[thegagline]

Chris Christie plans to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary next week in New Hampshire — and his campaign will focus on attacking his former ally and current GOP frontrunner in the race, former President Donald Trump.

The former New Jersey governor will announce his campaign Tuesday at Saint Anselm College in a town hall event, according to Christie advisers who spoke with Axios.

His campaign messaging will be focused on speaking to the nation’s “exhausted majority” and running “a non-traditional campaign that is highly focused on earned media, mixing it up in the news cycle and engaging Trump,” the advisers told the outlet.

The campaign will reportedly be run by Maria Comella, a former adviser to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Christie strategist Mike DuHaime.

Tell It Like It Is, a super PAC backing his candidacy, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission yesterday for the candidate to mount his second presidential run, following his first attempt in 2016.

Christie, 60, endorsed the former president that year after having come in sixth place in the New Hampshire GOP primary, but later broke with Trump over his stolen-election claims in 2020.

The two-term governor has already launched attacks on the 76-year-old ex-president, calling him a “puppet of Putin” for not backing Ukraine in its war against Russia and saying Trump is “afraid” to “get on the stage against people who are serious” for the Republican primary debates.

[thegagline]

I’m still waiting for a fiscal conservative to run. I’m beginning to think that I will be waiting until we inevitably fall off of the financial cliff.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

He's going to "enter"? Will he fit through the door?

[algore]

What a waste of time and Energy

[Leep]

Wasn’t they the conditions that a Hitler came to power?

[TBP]

His 25 supporters are very excited!

[TBP]

Krispy Kreme is about to get a Dunkin.

[Leep]

Wasn’t that the conditions that a Hitler came to power?

[Bratch]

Republicans 2024

May 31, 2023 | Sundance | 75 Comments

A person who was a teenager when Obamacare was debated and passed is now around 30 years old.  Put another way, if you were 15 years old when We The People defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley with Scott Brown and took the Kennedy senate seat, you are about to turn 30.  Think about the context of modern republican politics and time.

This context reminds us that a large portion of the generally distracted population has no foundational understanding of modern Republican politics.

This context is also the baseline behind ‘battered conservative syndrome‘.

You will never, not ever, see a professional republican politician attack a Democrat with the same level of vitriol, hatred, bitterness and anger as they do toward their own base voter.

• The Democrat party fears their base;
• the Republican party despises their base. 

The truth of this very visible reality will never change. Professional republican politicians are not ideologues to principle or policy; they are interested in one thing, money.  That’s it.

If you peel the core of any issue involving conflict with the Republican party, you will find money at the center of it. 

Current Democrat politicians focus on advancing an ideological agenda; they swing for the fences in an effort to maximize control and power. 

Current Republican politicians are focused, to the detriment of all other facets, on their personal wealth.

When you introduce a newly elected ‘conservative‘ to the DC world of Republicanism, it is like sending a new guy/gal into the room to talk policy, only to be met with every face around the table staring back quizzically and dismissively while replying, “we don’t do that here – we are talking about money.”

Once you reset the Schoolhouse Rocks mindset and accept this is the truth of the thing, then everything else that puzzled you about Republican politics reconciles.

• Ballot harvesting doesn’t generate money, so why do it? 
• We can make just as much money in the minority railing against ‘them’, so why be focused on a majority? 
• Donald Trump is threatening the financial position of our benefactors, so we hate him. 

These are the simple truths of modern republicans.

This is also the context to look at the institutions of professional republican politics (RNC, RGA, NRSCC, etc) as well as the politicians who operate inside the business of professional republicanism.   Defending the trough is the goal – nothing is more important.  Removing any threat to the billionaires and multinationals who feed the trough, is a priority.  If defending the money means eliminating a pesky conservative thinker, so be it – destroy them.  That’s where the bitterness and anger come from.

If we do not accept this reality, we are doomed to repeat the cycle of abuse.

We can never make a professional republican a perfect sandwich that will stop him/her from abusing us. Quit trying.

With this in mind and understanding the nature of our corrupt two-party system controlled by two private corporations, the DNC and RNC, Donald Trump selected the RNC as the best available option to bring a new set of economic priorities back to the forefront.

Making America Great Again is a threat to modern republicanism, because MAGA has a core America-First economic agenda that runs counter to the priorities of the Republican party. {Go Deep}

Every professional republican politician who enters the 2024 race for the Republican nomination, is working toward this anti-MAGA goal.  None of them are working on any other goal.  The removal of MAGA from mechanics of the Republican party is their mission priority.  There is no other higher priority, including election outcomes.

Monmouth has a new poll released yesterday [article here – data pdf here] that was taken just before and during the time Ron DeSantis launched his candidacy.

When you look at the results you can see why the people managing the Florida governor pulled the trigger a little earlier than anticipated.

DeSantis was scheduled in a very clear and strategic roadmap to launch as the ‘last’ candidate in the 2024 race.  However, despite his national politicking and “book tour” his support was dropping every week.  They couldn’t wait any longer out of fear the principal would lose all support and the 2024 effort would be useless before they even got out of the gate.

The background managers pushed DeSantis into the race and now we will see the last set of professional republicans follow.  Each candidate will have a role and responsibility on behalf of the party.

Chris Christie and Nikki Haley will team up to play the lead role in the party attack against Donald Trump.

Notice how we are not seeing any post-DeSantis announcement polling?   Ron DeSantis launched on May 23rd and May 24th.  Sometimes it is the absence of the thing that tells you a lot about the substance of the thing.

[Monmouth Article Here]

Why would a candidate at 1%, 2%, 3% etc., stay or even launch into the race?  Stop pretending.  They do not have any chance of winning and they are not in the race to win.  They are in the race to defend the interests of the professional republican apparatus.

They are in the race to destroy MAGA and the American-First agenda.

Yet pundits and battered conservatives demand the non-pretending people stop talking about the truth of it and maintain their illusion.

It is all nonsense.

Battered Conservative No More!

[House Atreides]

This plump but UNAPPEALING TURKEY will get absolutely zero traction in the primary. And he would be NOBODY’S CHOICE as running mate.

[DPMD]

Because there aren’t enough muslim judges on the federal bench. It’ll be a contest between him, sununu and hutchinson to see who can remember their name one week after the election.

[mass55th]

"He's going to "enter"? Will he fit through the door? "

LOL!! I was going to say: "I hope they've got a big enough doorway to fit his fat ass through."

[DPMD]

His instructions for the debate will not be “don’t bump into the scenery,” but will be “don’t eat the scenery.”

[ConservativeInPA]

This is great news! I am officially volunteering myself as FR’s campaign tracker for Christie. With all the crap news lately we need a whale of a laugh.

[vaskypilot]

Just trying to enhance his resume.

[MDLION]

“He’s going to ‘enter’? Will he fit through the door?”

Last night on Fox when they said he was going to “jump” into the race, I said, “Huh?”

[Ann Archy]

What a waste of SKIN!

[Red6]

I’m sure the establishment is fine with him, both party and in the bureaucracy.

Not sure if more than 2 voters are actually thrilled about him as a candidate though.

[Sparky1776]

He is running on ego.

[Alvin Diogenes]

I’m still waiting for a fiscal conservative to run. I’m beginning to think that I will be waiting until we inevitably fall off of the financial cliff.

DeSantis might be that fiscal conservative. (But I'm not holding my breath; the Republicans always seem to disappoint when they get in power. I had high hopes for Newt Gingrich back in the day.)

[Bobalu]

The world’s biggest ball of tone-deaf...

unstable
unamerican
unsightly
untrustworthy