quick take. He’s a northeast republican that isn’t afraid of confrontation when he knows he right and he makes a great governor of a democrat state. He has attributes that people in the rest of the country can relate to, but too many flaws that they can ignore. Not a good fit for national office but I can see him running for senator.
He’s a gun banner which should disqualify him immediately. That might work in Jersey, but it won’t work in SC, FL and Iowa.
Stating he is a gun banner is not fair in my opinion. I am a NJ gun owner, and the latest gun bills passed by the legislature was going to be my red line to vote for him. If he signed them, no vote. However, he vetoed everyone of them that had anything to do with tightening the gun laws in NJ. There has been no meaningful changes in the gun laws unlike our neighbors and Colorado I might add. In the recent past, not twenty years ago, he stated he would contemplate loosening NJ gun laws, but not if the effort would be futile, and to be fair it would with the present composition of our legislature.
Pat Buchanan said Christie is too in-your-face for Iowa.
I think Chris Matthews has a point when he says Paul could win Iowa, NH and SC.
Grassley and King make some wild statements and tweets but they are not like Christie when they talk to regular people.