your party s choice? please raise your hand if you would. [ cheers and applause ] just hold on. so just to be clear, governor christie, you were kind of late to the game there but you raised your hand? no, i m doing this. look, i m doing this, not this. whether or not you believe that the criminal charges are right or wrong, the conduct is beneath the office of president of the united states. i m joined now by two cnn political commentators, van jones. former obama official scott jennings. former special assistant to president george w. bush. good to have you both. much to discuss. i want to begin with that moment on the stage but i don t want to purely focus on that moment because to be clear you had several candidates on stage, pence, haley, christie,
hutchinson among them who called out the president s behavior as unconstitutional. and of course christie was extremely critical there. taken together, scott jennings, what does not just the audience reaction and that pledge but the reaction of the former president s behavior tell you about his grip on the party? is it rock solid? is it showing some cracks? does it endure through this primary process? what do you think? well, right now he is the far and away front-runner. i didn t see anything last night that changed my opinion of that. i was a little surprised at the amount of support on the stage for mike pence on the question of did mike pence do the right thing on january 6th. most people said he did. vivek ramaswamy ducked it, of course. so that did surprise me. but overall you ve got people up there raising their hand saying they re going to support a convicted felon maybe. and honestly, that puts them way out of step with american public opinion. 70% of americans in a quinnipi
pa apologize. his landslide re-election last year was a sham. he deliberately scheduled cory booker s senate election to take place three weeks ahead of his election. most democrats voted in booker s race. most republicans voted in chris i s race. of course christie did well but that s an abuse of power as obvious as any traffic jam. plus it cost taxpayers about $25 million. so, surprise, surprise, here we are. new week, new scandal, new hole in this guy s straight shooter image and we still have 146 weeks left until election day 2016. so that s pathetic. if that s the best you ve got against christie, i m going to endorse him. oh, he had an ad that was controversial. he won a landslide. he had appaologizeapologize. that s never happened to any other politicians. here s the thing, democrats barack obama had no issues in
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