Chris Christie

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3 min readNov 7, 2023
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Is the only Republican candidate who is confronting Trump’s supporters head on.
‘You’re not willing to face the truth,’ he says directly to them.
Christie is unafraid of the cries of Trump partisans asking him to shut up.
He waits for the wave of outrage to simmer down and he says it again,
‘You’re not willing to face the truth.’
In one of the clips that I saw, the camera cut to a panel of commentators and the anchor, pandering to the crowd, asked, ‘What kind of candidate says that to the audience.’ One commentator (that’s all I could stomach) began to immediately disparage Christie.
But Christie is right.
I don’t know where he stands on other issues, but his willingness to confront Trump’s supporters so openly says a lot about him. It spells courage and intelligence.
He’s gathered enough support to keep qualifying for the debates, so his message is gaining traction.
Compare Ramaswamy who, in one of the first debates, could not help himself from pleasing the audience, desperate as he was for approval, and said out loud that Trump was the best president we’ve ever had. Wow. It’s going to take some time and effort to undo that message and all it entails.
Polls keep coming out that Trump will whip Biden. I’m reminded of the polls that put Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump in 2016. And what a surprise that was for all of us.
But here are three issues where Trump fails atrociously.
His isolationism, his climate change denial and the horror of…

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