# I’m rooting for Chris Christie’s run for President (He has dropped from the race Jan 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 10, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302 "2023-06-10T22:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/101 "2024-01-11T16:10:13Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Despite the January 6 insurrectionists’ best efforts. Fake noose! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/102 "2024-01-11T16:14:50Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > He said he thought he could help make him a better President. That, of course, didn’t exactly pan out. Nor, in my view does it completely absolve him of his sins. It doesn’t completely absolve him, no, but in 2016, it was understandable. The electorate had stuck the nation with Trump as president, and anyone with any sense would want to do what they could to make that presidency at least minimally functional. It was only later that exactly how big a disaster Trump actually was became apparent. Hell, I figured he’d be too lazy to do much of anything, and that he’d leave all the actual work to other people, and only attend the “fun” stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/103 "2024-01-11T16:25:53Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Well, Christie’s not going to be VP, so why not burn that gold-plated bridge as a talking head on CNN? _Burning_ a bridge would be a new twist I guess. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/104 "2024-01-12T05:24:06Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > In his speech, Christie also acknowledged/confessed his role with regard to enabling Trump back in 2016. He said he thought he could help make him a better President. That, of course, didn’t exactly pan out. Nor, in my view does it completely absolve him of his sins. He knew Trump for what he was and yet he was on Trump’s debate prep team in 2020. Even after he caught Covid at one of the meetings, ending up in the ICU. Maybe Jan. 6 actually made him change his mind about Trump or he is just doing all this to get attention. Yes, it’s always good when GOP leaders tell the truth about Trump but I’m not assigning any purely altruistic reasons to Christie for doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/105 "2024-01-12T05:29:02Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Well, Christie’s not going to be VP, so why not burn that gold-plated bridge as a talking head on CNN? That’s not a bad idea. CNN does entertain Republican points of view from Republicans, in panel discussions and suchlike. Christie would make a great addition to those discussions. I hope CNN is considering adding him to its list of commentators. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/106 "2024-01-12T05:38:21Z")
Joe Lieberman said today he will explore Christie’s interest in becoming one of the candidates on the No Labels Party ticket. I guess we’ll see how dedicated Christie really is to making sure Trump doesn’t regain the White House. No Labels is funded by Harlan Crow (Clarence Thomas’s benefactor) and other dark money. Their goal is to see Joe Biden defeated. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/107 "2024-01-12T13:50:25Z")
Christie has been an ABC contributor since 2018, I believe. They suspended the contract when he began his campaign, so he may go back there, I guess. Can you be on both ABC & CNN? ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/108 "2024-01-12T14:13:36Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Fake noose! _golf clap_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302/109 "2024-01-12T16:48:23Z")
I wish Christie had seen and declared the truth of just how bad Trump is a lot earlier, but he did his party, and the nation, a service in mounting this campaign and blasting the frontrunner as much and as pungently as he has. He’s gone up a few notches in my book, at least, as a result. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-rooting-for-chris-christie-s-run-for-president-he-has-dropped-from-the-race-jan-2024/985302.md?page=5)