In a debate just days before the New Hampshire primary, Christie lit into Rubio for his inexperience and canned talking points. As a template, look no further than what Christie did to Sen. But Christie has spent the last couple of years publicly attacking Trump as a “ coward” and a “ child” who “ undermined our democracy.” That’s a level of anti-Trump vitriol that has so far been absent from the 2024 primary, despite Trump getting indicted and being found liable for sexual abuse.Ĭhristie could impact the race simply by making the case against Trump even if he doesn’t personally benefit from it, a slew of aggressive attacks on the front-runner could take the wind out of Trump’s sails and shift support toward, say, Florida Gov. There’s even a theory that he’s running for president not to win, but to slay the dragon that is Trump’s front-running campaign - a dragon, it must be noted, that Christie played a key role in enabling as the first governor or senator to endorse Trump’s 2016 campaign (after his own campaign ended, of course). And after breaking with former President Donald Trump over his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, Christie is more unpopular than ever among Republican registered voters: His national net favorability rating in the latest Monmouth poll was -26 points (21 percent to 47 percent).
He hasn’t been an elected official for more than five years now, so he’s less in the national spotlight: According to Media Cloud, only 676 online articles from national news outlets mentioned him in the past month, compared with 1,306 in the month before his 2016 campaign launch.
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He has not exceeded 3 percent in a single poll - national or state - of the full primary field so far this year. Today, Christie’s campaign is starting with even less reason for hope. Why 2024 Is Shaping Up To Be The Most Online Election Ever The scandal permanently torpedoed Christie’s approval ratings in New Jersey: After he won reelection in a landslide in 2013, news broke that Christie aides had closed traffic lanes on the George Washington Bridge in order to create traffic problems in Fort Lee, New Jersey, to retaliate politically against the city’s mayor, who hadn’t endorsed Christie for reelection. The national polling leader, Romney, sat at only 22 percent in the RealClearPolitics average at the time - a level of support that, from 1972 to 2016, has implied only about a 1-in-5 chance of winning the nomination, according to an analysis by my colleague Geoffrey Skelley.īut just a few years later, all that Christie curiosity evaporated. And Republican elites had spent months trying to draft him into a weak GOP field. Mitt Romney for first place in the Republican presidential primary. A national poll from YouGov/The Economist showed him tied with former Massachusetts Gov. In September 2011, he was riding high: A Fairleigh Dickinson University poll gave him a 54 percent approval rating and only a 36 percent disapproval rating in New Jersey, remarkable numbers for a Republican in a blue state. Except, in retrospect, it was the best chance he was going to get.
“Now is not my time,” he said at a press conference announcing his decision on Oct. To be blunt: If Christie wanted to be president, he missed his chance by not running in 2012. Like in 2016, his biggest impact on the 2024 Republican primary could be in helping to take down a front-runner - but he’s so disliked, even that may be futile. By the time he did run for president, in 2016, his star had fallen - and he arguably starts this campaign in an even worse position.
Since passing on a presidential campaign in 2012, when he was still a popular first-term governor, Christie has become the poster child for not striking when the political iron is hot. But the announcement came about 12 years too late. Chris Christie 1 announced he was running for president. On Tuesday night in New Hampshire, former New Jersey Gov. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES
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