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Chris Christie is running for president, he announced today at his alma mater, Livingston High School in New Jersey, becoming the 14th Republican candidate to enter the 2016 presidential race. "America is tired of handwringing and indecisiveness and weakness in the Oval Office," the New Jersey governor said today to a cheering crowd. "We need to have strength and decision-making and authority back in the Oval office and that is why today I am proud to announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States of America." Standing beside him were his wife, Mary Pat, and...

Chris Christie needed a win. On Thursday night, he got one. Christie, the New Jersey Republican challenging incumbent Democratic governor Jon Corzine, has seemed aimless in recent weeks, fading in the polls just as this tight gubernatorial race enters its final stretch. In early August, a Monmouth/Gannett poll showed Christie ahead by 14 points; this week, the same poll showed him ahead by just three. Wednesday’s Quinnipiac poll also showed Christie only slightly ahead, 43 percent to 39 percent. In July, Quinnipiac had Christie besting Corzine by 13 points. The catalog of reasons for Christie’s drop is as long as...