Why there isn't going to be a Chris Christie comeback

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Why there isn't going to be a Chris Christie comeback

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri September 10, 2021




Chris Christie wants you to know that he's turned over a new leaf.

"​​We need to renounce the conspiracy theorists and the truth deniers. The ones who know better and the ones who are just plain nuts," Christie said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan presidential library on Thursday. "We need to give our supporters facts that will help them put all those fantasies to rest."

Who ever could he be talking about?!?!?

This is Christie purposely trying get some distance from Donald Trump. He may not have mentioned the former president in the speech but the entire address was aimed at Christie trying to remake himself as something more than just a Trump lackey.

It won't work.

Why? Because from the moment Christie, inexplicably, endorsed Trump's 2016 presidential campaign -- February 26, 2016 -- he positioned himself as nothing more than than one of dozens of supplicants to the former president. ..........(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/chris-christie-2024-new-jersey/index.html?

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1. Only trump could make this buffoon

Less buffoonish.

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2. He's a loser

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3. Trump won't allow Christie to "come back".

Trump blames Christie for giving him Covid in the first place.

[3Hotdogs]

5. --- and the hundreds of gifs that followed. My favorite,

Christie and the beach chair on D-Day, Normandy.