I genuinely had no idea he was running lmao
The MSNBC types were acting like he had a shot for a while because he said orange man bad
To be fair most traditional logic would say the one person willing to criticize the person they’re running against would have the best shot of beating them.
Make way for Jeb
damn he almost had it
~20m ago
NYT
Chris Christie appeared to be caught on a hot mic on his campaign’s livestream… “She’s going to get smoked, and you and I both know it,” Mr. Christie said in the conversation, presumably referring to Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina. “She’s not up to this.”
That’s super funny since my father is like “oh the anti-trump Republicans will all consolidate behind Haley”
I think you’re right, she’ll eat shit
Your dad is right that ~all of the anti-trump Republicans will coalesce around Haley.
Your dad is wrong for not realizing that anti-Trump Republicans in 2024 are so weak that even that unanimous support will not prevent Haley from absolutely eating shit.
It’s like saying someone locked up the libertarian vote - that’s nice, but you’re insane if you think that’s a meaningfully significant part of the electorate.
Anti-Trump Republicans are, at most, 40% of the GOP Primary’s voter base. Meaning, they are grossly insufficent to ever nominate an anti-trump candidate, as ~60% of the party want him as the nominee. Especially in the conservative early states of the primary, like Iowa and South Carolina
I know you know all of that. But it’s insane that anyone in this country could still be delusional about Trump’s electoral power in 2024. This isn’t 2015. Delusional that people still don’t take him seriously, or that they think Trump is one Howard Dean-yelling scandal away from going away forever
I’m surprised he stayed in this long. The fact that he ran at all showed that he clearly had no idea what the Republican zeitgeist is, I suppose. I’m sure never-Trump Republicans (if there are any) remember that he tried to hitch his cart to the Trump Train, Trumpers hate that he tried to rebrand himself as a never-Trumper, and Democrats hate him because he’s a Republican and an asshole and he ran New Jersey like it.
Maybe this was an attempt to get enough publicity on CNN to launch some new wing of his career, but there’s no way it works, because everybody hates him. I guess he could become a second Bill Maher but that niche is already filled by Bill Maher.
