{"id":576898,"date":"2023-06-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-chris-christie-could-be-a-wildcard-in-2024-gop-race\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T10:00:00","slug":"how-chris-christie-could-be-a-wildcard-in-2024-gop-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-chris-christie-could-be-a-wildcard-in-2024-gop-race\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Chris Christie could be a wildcard in 2024 GOP race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/christiechris_042023_ap-charleskrupa_christie-memo.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is very much a long shot to become the Republican presidential nominee in 2024 \u2014 but he has the potential to scramble the contest, according to sources across the party\u2019s ideological spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Theories about Christie\u2019s likely impact have become more salient after it emerged Wednesday that he is likely to enter the race next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Axios was first to report that Christie will launch his campaign Tuesday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.<\/p>\n<p>There are enormous questions around a Christie bid \u2014 particularly, whether he can hurt former President Trump, to whom he is now fiercely opposed; and what effect his candidacy might have on Trump\u2019s most serious rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).<\/p>\n<p>If Christie is entering the race with the intention of winning, he has a big mountain to climb.<\/p>\n<p>His political star shined brighter during his previous quest for the White House, in the 2016 cycle \u2014 and he still went nowhere. Christie exited the race after the New Hampshire primary, where he placed sixth with less than 8 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP primary electorate was not in the market for a moderate northeastern Republican on that occasion. There is no compelling evidence to believe things are different now.<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics would contend that a 2024 Christie campaign is more about maintaining relevancy \u2014 and perhaps parlaying that relevancy into other work \u2014 than anything else.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, Christie\u2019s relationship with Trump has gone through more twists and turns than a soap opera.<\/p>\n<p>Having first run against Trump in 2016, Christie swiftly endorsed his rival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s then-chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has said that Christie wavered after the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape emerged, on which the then-candidate was heard boasting about grabbing women by the genitals. In Bannon\u2019s telling, this cost Christie any chance of getting a cabinet role in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Christie was at one stage the head of Trump\u2019s transition planning team, though he was deposed from that position soon after the 2016 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the time of the 2020 election campaign, Christie was back in the good graces of Trump\u2019s circle to a sufficient extent that he helped the then-president prepare for his debates against President Biden. But Christie broke yet again with Trump when the latter refused to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Christie has been more vehement than virtually any other significant figure in the GOP in his criticisms of Trump.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He has referred to Trump\u2019s 2024 bid as a \u201cvanity exercise,\u201d called Trump \u201cPutin\u2019s puppet\u201d over his view of the war in Ukraine, and contended that Trump is \u201cafraid\u201d to debate other serious candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction from Trump and his allies has been predictably dismissive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Trump spokesman responded to a New York Times inquiry about the \u201cafraid\u201d to debate comment by saying \u201cWho?\u201d \u2014 and adding that Christie was \u201ctrying to play pretend candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> broke on Wednesday that Christie was planning to enter the race, a GOP operative supportive of Trump told this column, \u201cTrump should welcome Christie into the race, and not just because the more candidates in the primary the better for him\u2026He will act as a constant reminder to our base that the very people they hate also hate Trump.:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Trump operative also contended that Christie\u2019s candidacy would \u201csignal to GOP base voters that Trump is a threat to the establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all the other alternatives to Trump in the presidential race \u2014 declared or potential candidates alike \u2014 have positioned themselves more as \u201cnon-Trump\u201d rather than \u201canti-Trump.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That\u2019s true of DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Pence \u2014 who is also expected to enter the race next week \u2014 and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). None has taken on Trump so frontally as Christie seems likely to do.<\/p>\n<p>Christie does have talents, however. No Republican gets elected twice as governor of a blue state like New Jersey without political skills. And the former governor can be a formidable debater. In 2016, he famously embarrassed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) so badly in one clash that it was perceived to have ruined Rubio\u2019s chances in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Christie was not the beneficiary himself in 2016 \u2014 and some wonder whether that pattern could repeat itself in 2024, with attacks by Christie on Trump perhaps helping DeSantis.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a>ly, in multi-candidate fields, if you seek to take down another candidate, a third candidate benefits,\u201d said Matt Mackowiak, the chair of the Travis County, Texas, Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that is the most likely\u2026You could argue that if Christie is effective at attacking Trump, it would be helpful to Desantis,\u201d Mackowiak added.<\/p>\n<p>Others, particularly in the rank of Trump critics, were more sanguine about Christie\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Tyler, who was communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during the 2016 campaign, said, \u201cI know the conventional wisdom is that Christie can\u2019t win but I don\u2019t know anymore \u2014 and I don\u2019t think anybody does. Christie can stick it to Trump and land punches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler, a strong Trump critic, added that Christie \u201cwon in a Democratic state \u2014 and why wouldn\u2019t we want someone who can win over Democrats?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, however, Christie\u2019s bigger problem is how to win over Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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