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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Christie still holding out on endorsing Kamala, thinks he has a chance at being President still.
You are deluded, Chris. The hard core MAGAs will never vote for you and Dems sure won't. There are not enough independents and low information voters to win to your side to get to 270 EVs.
onecaliberal
(35,054 posts)Arne
(3,411 posts)yellowcanine
(36,119 posts)You hired all the shitheads involved Chris. Your fingerprints are all over it.
Arne
(3,411 posts)You couldn't tell?
yellowcanine
(36,119 posts)And about as believable.
Ocelot II
(119,188 posts)since he made such a big deal a few months ago about how he was going to do everything in his power to prevent TFG from winning.
yellowcanine
(36,119 posts)I will be happy to say I am wrong. But I don't think I am. He clearly does think he still has a shot at the Presidency and I would be surprised if he doesn't run in 2028. Obviously endorsing Kamala in 2024 would be problematic in that scenario.
EYESORE 9001
(27,199 posts)Either metaphorically or the real deal. I hope Mark McKinney considers making a comeback in the historical dramatization of the event.
getagrip_already
(16,908 posts)Look, most of the "conservatives" supporting kamala are just here until tsf is gone. They will all go home after that.
Christie knows the party will forgive and forget, to a point. Coming out in support of harris will cross that point.
So yes, he does believe he has a shot. Its the same game sununu is playing. And haley, and countless others.
He is likely under more pressure to support trump than harris, tbh.
His silence is probably the best we will get.
yellowcanine
(36,119 posts)getagrip_already
(16,908 posts)But she loves that job and wants to keep it forever.
She does not want to get primaried, which would happen if she had a spine.
She sold out long ago.
Blue Owl
(53,720 posts)brush
(56,297 posts)Apparently not. IMO he should be looking ahead towards a re-constituted, traditional Republican, center-right party once trump is defeated and in the dust bin of history and/or jail.
He'll have a much better chance of winning a Repulican party nomination if he helps get rid of trump.
getagrip_already
(16,908 posts)The party, whats left of it, is controlled by radicals, and those will be impossible to dislodge.
Voters wont turn on the radical right, especially primary voters.
While a non-radical candidate could emerge, the voters wont support them in the end. And we are seeing that gop voter preference for radical positions is close to 90%.
brush
(56,297 posts)re-constituted, old-school Republican party. IMO the maga party is so extreme, the traditional Republicans, if they want any say in national politics, will have have it out with the magats to regain a foothold. It may or may not happen. It depends on their courage and if a leader emerges. That could be Christie if he gets his head on straight.
Mind you, I'm more concerned with winning the election than worry about the fate of the Republicans, but I do think the way the magats have alienated women, POCs, democracy loyalists, Indies, suburban soccer moms, trad republicans...the whole deal, they will destroy themselves once trump is dispatched with a vitrual stake through his fat heart, which is what a loss in November will do as he's old, old old with mental decline more and more evident and no future for another run in '28.
Too many forces are working against him and magats for that too extreme movement to prosper...see the Cheneys endorcement and other trad republicans for Harris, with more to come I suspect. There's room, a must really, for a more moderate Republican party to emerge.
Harris will show well in the debate next Tuesday and that'll further damage trump, what with his inability to focus and make sense on policy. HIs movement and he himself are on a downward and slippery slope.
There will be no civil war nor another insurrection at the Capitol building.