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Related: About this forumChris Christie’s nightmare worsens: Walls caving in amid new revelations and poll
The governors numbers crater at home and in Iowa, as we learn he gave 9/11 wreckage as political giftsJOAN WALSH
While reporters pondered the meaning of of former Chris Christie aide Bridget Kelly appearing in court personally to fight subpoenas for her email and documents Why would Kelly show up at all? Might she eventually talk? Why is she wearing a black cardigan and pearls? the bad news for Christie continued. A Des Moines Register poll shows that Iowa voters are paying attention to Christies bridge scandal woes, with 57 percent disapproving of the way hes handled it and only 25 percent approving.
Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, the damage is even worse. Christies approval numbers have flipped in the new Fairleigh Dickinson poll: the man who won reelection in a landslide in November has seen his disapproval ratings spike, and for the first time since his first election, more New Jersey voters disapprove than approve of the job hes doing as governor. A Rutgers/Eagleton poll also released Tuesday found that trust in Christie has cratered, too: 23 percent of those polled said the word trustworthy could be used to describe Christie very well; thats down 20 percent just since October.
In some ways, the Iowa news doesnt matter much to Christie: it was never going to be a strong Christie state in the 2016 GOP nominating process, since social conservatives dominate its first-in-the-nation caucuses. Christies only hope was mobilizing Republican-leaning independents to join the caucuses, a heavy lift in any scenario.
But now even that path seems closed to Christie, as Iowa Independents disapprove of Christies bridge-scandal handling 60-20. Among registered Republicans, 47 percent disapprove while 34 percent say hes doing all right. If Governor Christie runs, he may choose to follow John McCain and Rudy Giulianis path and skip Iowa, a top Iowa GOP strategist told the Des Moines Register. That worked for McCain, temporarily anyway, but not at all for Giuliani, who was once the towering Christie figure on the GOP horizon a blue-state Republican tough guy beloved by the media whose presidential campaign flame-out was a remarkable display of hubris and incompetence.
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Chris Christie’s nightmare worsens: Walls caving in amid new revelations and poll (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2014
OP
"Christie is a nasty person and would never get the GOP nomination."
yortsed snacilbuper
Mar 2014
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Arkana
(24,347 posts)1. Outstanding.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)2. IS it wrong that i'm smiling about this?
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)6. I see what you did there.
Well played.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)3. Don't gloat on this Unless this jackass is indicted he survives all this
Even if people in his cabinet are indicted he still will be out of the woods on this.Why because he's a republican and they protect there own
africanadian
(92 posts)4. ;-)
Gothmog
(145,303 posts)5. I am enjoying watching Christie's issues
Christie is a nasty person and would never get the GOP nomination.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)7. "Christie is a nasty person and would never get the GOP nomination."
The gop only nominates nasty candidates!