Chris Christie’s nightmare worsens: Walls caving in amid new revelations and poll

[DonViejo]

The governor’s numbers crater at home and in Iowa, as we learn he gave 9/11 wreckage as political gifts

JOAN WALSH

While reporters pondered the meaning of of former Chris Christie aide Bridget Kelly appearing in court personally to fight subpoenas for her email and documents – Why would Kelly show up at all? Might she eventually talk? Why is she wearing a black cardigan and pearls? — the bad news for Christie continued. A Des Moines Register poll shows that Iowa voters are paying attention to Christie’s bridge scandal woes, with 57 percent disapproving of the way he’s handled it and only 25 percent approving.

Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, the damage is even worse. Christie’s approval numbers have flipped in the new Fairleigh Dickinson poll: the man who won reelection in a landslide in November has seen his disapproval ratings spike, and for the first time since his first election, more New Jersey voters disapprove than approve of the job he’s doing as governor. A Rutgers/Eagleton poll also released Tuesday found that trust in Christie has cratered, too: 23 percent of those polled said the word “trustworthy” could be used to describe Christie “very well;” that’s down 20 percent just since October.

In some ways, the Iowa news doesn’t matter much to Christie: it was never going to be a strong Christie state in the 2016 GOP nominating process, since social conservatives dominate its first-in-the-nation caucuses. Christie’s only hope was mobilizing Republican-leaning independents to join the caucuses, a heavy lift in any scenario.

But now even that path seems closed to Christie, as Iowa Independents disapprove of Christie’s bridge-scandal handling 60-20. Among registered Republicans, 47 percent disapprove while 34 percent say he’s doing all right. “If Governor Christie runs, he may choose to follow John McCain and Rudy Giuliani’s path and skip Iowa,” a top Iowa GOP strategist told the Des Moines Register. That worked for McCain, temporarily anyway, but not at all for Giuliani, who was once the towering Christie figure on the GOP horizon – a blue-state Republican tough guy beloved by the media — whose presidential campaign flame-out was a remarkable display of hubris and incompetence.

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[Arkana]

1. Outstanding.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[leftyohiolib]

2. IS it wrong that i'm smiling about this?

[RedSpartan]

6. I see what you did there.

Well played.

[bigdarryl]

3. Don't gloat on this Unless this jackass is indicted he survives all this

Even if people in his cabinet are indicted he still will be out of the woods on this.Why because he's a republican and they protect there own

[africanadian]

4. ;-)

[Gothmog]

5. I am enjoying watching Christie's issues

Christie is a nasty person and would never get the GOP nomination.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

7. "Christie is a nasty person and would never get the GOP nomination."

The gop only nominates nasty candidates!