Chris Christie on the Star-Ledger’s front page today. Yikes.
The New Jersey governor has scheduled a press conference for 1pm. Is he in or out? Start taking wagers now…
Great read analysis of Christie’s options.
So it’s hard to see a White House bid amounting to anything but an all-or-nothing risk for Christie. Run and he’ll be pilloried by his home-state foes for skipping out on his job halfway through his first term, and for going back on a year’s worth of adamant, over-the-top denials. Plus, as a national G.O.P. candidate, he’ll presumably be pulled far to the right, further alienating him from the swing voters he depends on in his home state.
Did you miss Capital New York’s Reid Pillifant on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” Reporters’ Roundtable? You can watch it here. Reid and his colleagues discuss Mayor Bloomberg coattails in the 2012 mayoral race and the Chris Christie “will he or won’t he?” game.
It’s starting to feel like there’s a new Hamlet on the Hudson, but this time he’s on the New Jersey side of the river. - Steve Kornacki
Who’s that big, Islamophobe-denouncing softie disguised as Chris Christie? by Steve Kornacki
So he has committed himself to threading a very difficult needle, appeasing New Jersey’s left-of-center swing voters in order to survive in 2013 without doing serious damage to the image that has made him a hero to national Republicans and a future White House prospect.
In this context, his defense of Sohail Mohammed is something approaching a political masterstroke.
Chris Christie makes a desperate bet on Atlantic City | by Mitchell Blumenthal | Capital New York
Chris Christie’s plan to save Atlantic City, unlike much he has proposed in the course of becoming a national political force, is not particularly conservative. It is also not gratuitously provocative, and does not lend itself to YouTube virality.
What it is—like every other Atlantic City scheme to have come out of the New Jersey Statehouse in the last few years—is an idea born of desperation and necessity.
Mitchell Blumenthal, who was an editor at the New York Times for more than 20 years, writes for Capital New York about Chris Christie’s impending Carl Paladino moment.
