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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Christie is actually gaining support for president. From Democrats.
SALEM, N.H. Chris Christie is running away with support from at least one major voting bloc in his presidential bid.
The only problem is its among the least important groups in the Republican primary.
The former New Jersey governor has seen his popularity soar with Democrats. Whereas Democrats once considered him a bully, a threat and an opportunistic apologist for Donald Trump, they now cant get enough of his new Trump-bashing persona.
Hes probably the only Republican I would vote for, said Joe Daly, a Democrat from Warner, N.H., who voted for Biden in 2020 but isnt sold on a second term. Of those on the right, Christie is the most reasonable, rational alternative to crazy Donald Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hampshire-voters-chris-christie-president-120737687.html
Let's not folks. To say Christie is better than Trump is a low bar. I still remember Bridgegate and him pulling New Jersey's contribution to the badly needed Gateway Hudson River Tunnel Project.
Qutzupalotl
(15,661 posts)at least he's not a fascist bent on trashing the Constitution. Yes, that's a low bar, but there is no alternative I can see besides single-digit Asa.
If Christie loses an election, he'll admit it. The other big contenders, I really can't say that about them. At the very least, they would perpetuate the myth of widespread voter fraud, which is so corrosive to society.
Iggo
(49,655 posts)Thats a real good thing to be this year.
But itll pass.
Hes still the piece of shit motherfucker who killed that old lady by closing down lanes of a bridge because he was butt-hurt at Democrats. Hes still the guy who closed state beaches and then went to the beach.
Cruelty for shits and giggles. Thats his game. Thats who he is.
And right now hes in perfect position to attack Trump in a way that Trump cant handle (badgering the witness), and Im one hundred percent here for that.
Im not stupid enough to vote for him, though.
Botany
(76,410 posts)... crap in order to help the Republicans. See HRC and her emails, see "the Hunter Biden scandal,"
see "swift boats for truth," or this bull shit, "Joe Daly, a Democrat from Warner, N.H., who voted for
Biden in 2020 but isnt sold on a second term.*" This story is just like the Wall Street Journal's pre 2022
election Rupert Murdoch Poll talking about the coming Red Wave. Christie had awful poll #s the last
part of his term as governor.
BTW Joe is doing one of the best jobs ever as President
* What no Fox News going to talk to the common people @ some dinner that is chocked full of republicans?
Even the media that isn't GOP friendly constantly pulls the "Both sides are the same", and would constantly show Trump's empty podium (While Bernie Sanders got largely ignored...until they created the whole Bernie Bros nonsense) they are afraid of losing access, ditching the corporate media was one of the best decisions I made.
Botany
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samplegirl
(13,739 posts)That guy shouldnt ever gain a democratic vote!
chowder66
(11,855 posts)Fuck the press.
Botany
(76,410 posts)
Voted for Biden, a registered democrat, but will not vote for him in 2024 after he has done an outstanding job?
Please.
Shermann
(9,008 posts)I'm still going to walk on by.
lame54
(39,212 posts)But i don't encourage it be spread around
gulliver
(13,718 posts)I was hoping for better zingers. Christie would be a formidable GE opponent, so I'm fine with him underperforming.
we can do it
(12,986 posts)Cha
(316,810 posts)Fuck him and his R Bullshit.
Dems should know better.
peggysue2
(12,389 posts)Granted he's smarter than Trump. But who isn't? Granted, too, I like him beating up on Agent Orange. Though I must say he ran out of gas during the first debate.
Would I vote for him? Never. He reminds me too much of the infamous Frank Rizzo.
Why isn't the press writing about Republicans willing to cross over to the Dems--the Never Trumpers, the college-educated, Independents, the young? And women, for God's sake, for whom the GOP offers a return to the Good Ole Days, barefoot and pregnant.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Nothing to say it is significant.
UTUSN
(76,960 posts)betsuni
(28,720 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,089 posts)Dems need to shout out often & loud Biden's accomplishments.
Emile
(40,642 posts)DFW
(59,737 posts)That's like saying that working for $10 a week is better than working for $5 a week. Sure, it is, but neither one will let you live.
msfiddlestix
(8,162 posts)just feels that way...