New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may be down in the polls, but he isn’t out of the fight yet.
After some analysts had predicted his campaign was dead in the water, Christie, fresh off his 50th day of campaigning in New Hampshire, recently won critical endorsements in the state and his campaign is showing signs of life in the GOP presidential race.
Christie has visited New Hampshire more than any other candidate and hosted 36 town hall meetings. It’s beginning to pay dividends: The conservative editorial board of the Union Leader, New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, endorsed Christie earlier this week. His campaign also recently announced support from Dan and Renee Plummer, well-known Republicans on New Hampshire’s Seacoast, and Donna Sytek, a former New Hampshire House speaker who had multiple candidates fighting for her support.
But some experts are still warning that Christie’s potential comeback in New Hampshire may not be enough to pull him out of the doldrums in other states. He’s spent little time building a presence in South Carolina, which holds its primary Feb. 20. He has no office open, a minimal grassroots network, and has spent little time campaigning there or in other Southern states that will hold primaries soon after.
The question is whether that matters in a primary season that has been nationalized, particularly with the emergence of outsiders like Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Christie has taken advantage of that dynamic in recent weeks after the Paris attacks brought national security to the forefront, giving him the chance to employ his tough-talking persona and highlight his work as a federal prosecutor after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The Christie campaign’s long-term view hinges on their belief that the calendar becomes more favorable to Christie as time goes on, with many large and winner-take-all or Northeastern states like Illinois, California, Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland and Pennsylvania, where they expect Christie to do well.
“If you can build something well, it’s more likely to last, and this has been a very carefully, methodically constructed campaign,” Wayne MacDonald, Christie’s New Hampshire chairman, said.
“I’m just going to keep working as hard as I can here, try to do as well as I can here, and then let the future take care of itself,” Christie said Tuesday after an event in Manchester. “If my biggest worry is I’ve got to worry about is staffing up after New Hampshire, man, I’ll tell you, that’s a problem I’ll take.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Polls aren’t always accurate. The voters may see things differently than the polls do.
We are currently in the holiday season. Most people are going to be focused on Christmas and New Years Day more than the 2016 presidential race. We may see a reset for many of these campaigns when January arrives.
Christie is just another politician and not to say anything derogatory about him, if he is back with a roar it is because he is passing gas. I might be wrong but I am hoping the American people are beginning to see that the government has been screwing them for 30 years, both parties. When you say politician it should bring horrible visions to your mind. They have damaged our country enough. It is time to reverse all the bs and start building the country we could have been all along. We need Trump. The left wing media is doing everything they can to destroy the republican candidates who are not seasoned politicians. Up to and beyond the point of lying. If the story isn’t what they want they word it to make it that way and the real bad part is older people believe all that crap. They need to look at what we have and what we have had and appreciate what we could have.
…to have a Presidential Candidate go on a national news program and deny the reality of the Sandy Hook Shootings is INSANITY….
…to have other Presidential Candidates go on national news programs and BLAME the President of the United States, his former Secretary of State, a Former President and those who voted for them as being somehow culpable in this latest MASS MURDER is INSANITY…
…when will reason and sanity again prevail in this country and in our elected government because what we have now is INSANITY…for profit….
…this isn’t a party game where we make up cute sayings about guns and how they are/aren’t used to KILL PEOPLE, as the NRA wants us to play; this is a serious problem in this country that we MUST deal with. It includes Guns, and those with Serious Mental Defects’ ability to purchase and use them to KILL innocent children, you, me or disabled adults on a mass scale in a short period of time like the Newton School Massacre, what happened TODAY!…last week, last month, and on and on and Umpqua Community College AND ALL THE OTHER mass shootings.
The first I remember was Charles Whitman (white engineering student, former U. S. Marine) who murdered his wife and mother in their homes. Later that day, he brought a number of guns, including rifles, a shotgun, and handguns, to the campus of the University of Texas at Austin where, over an approximate 90 to 95 minute period, he killed 14 people and wounded 32 others in a mass shooting in and around the Tower.
We shouldn’t let a manufactured saying from the NRA force us to continue to let these massacres to take place. We all need to get a grip on reality and require Congress, BOTH HOUSES, to submit a bill to the president requiring more than a three day waiting period to purchase ANY GUN for any reason….perhaps it would give a cooling off period to a potential killer to realize the error of his/her ways, and/or a mentally ill person to be denied the purchase, it couldn’t hurt and might help….isn’t this worth a try?
…these gun manufacturers could care less about the 2nd amendment, you, me or a dog down the street, they care about PROFITS, and will continue to thwart any serious gun control because they ONLY CARE ABOUT PROFITS!…they are making lots of MONEY after these shootings, because each time, people get scared and more of them convince themselves that they can be safe with a gun….what a crock…a handgun is useless against ASSAULT WEAPONS (which they sell too), so they make MONEY selling to the terrorist; they make MONEY selling to scared idiots and have WAYNE LA PIERRE and the NRA to stand up there spouting some idiotic nonsense like “…guns don’t kill people….” think about it people, the TERRORISTS HERE ARE THE GUN MANUFACTURERS…..and the SENATORS/CONGRESS PERSONS who are in their pockets….
Would you repeat that.
Christie needs go the blank home! Fat-boy has about as much chance as I do. Get the h-ll out of Trump and Cruz’s way!
America better how the lap dog for obama doesn’t..who helped him out of the mess in Jesey, andhe is not the only one
the left give money to the fake ones and them America thinks more people like them and thats wha causes them to go up in the polls… wake up the lab dogs are speaking out. you better realize we are done if Trump doesn’t win
Amen to that!
Wow, I thought he would have had enough common sense to gracefully bow out. That tells me something right there. He is NOT listening to the We the people …. apparently he is only willing to listen to those who will tell him what he wants to hear … not what he NEEDS to hear.
This right here tells me: I DO NOT WANT THIS MAN! He does not / is not listening to the MAJORITY of us.
@Jjb – He’s way too arrogant and full of himself to back out.
Christie was right there (so he claims) when 9/11 occurred, yet he denied that Muslims were dancing on the buildings following the attack. Now the CBS press footage has been released proving that Donald Trump is correct about the Muslims action after the attack. People there are no peaceful Muslims who follow the Koran!
If fatboy wants to be the presidential candidate, he will have to flip over to the ;liberal dem bloodsucker side, he has no chance as a republican.
Christie thinks he’s riding high right now, but we will never forget his Obama kiss ass performance and though he talks tough on terrorism, his state is not doing that well economically that it should make anyone think he has the plan that will get us out of the mess that Obama has put us in.
Just because Christie and Bush are figuring out the right things to say for the ignorant Indpendents does NOT mean conservatives will start paying them homage!
chris christie, isn’t he the obama butt kisser? Thanks thought so.
no you idiot it was more like Obama hugging him and what was Christie supposed to do tell Obama to get back on helicopter he does not want federal help
I’m beginning to like Chris Christie.