been waiting for seven years, we don t know what would happen. there could be a frenzy. others could be emboldened to come forward and start attacking him. that s what i was talking about with this strategy. chris christie understands that the election is about donald trump. other candidates seem like they re running for president to be trump s vice president or to inherit trump s voters when they drop out. that s not going to happen. chris christie gets donald trump is what the election is about. the primary is a referendum still on donald trump. by the way, if you want to get attention, if you want to get on tv, you can talk about donald trump. that will get you on tv. i think chris christie s electoral chances are not great, but, you know, we don t know what new hampshire might do. they do interesting, counterintuitive things sometimes. if christie manages to get into a debate against donald trump some people think it is never going to happen but that would be quite an amazing t
50,000 people turn up to a trump event. he has that relationship with the crowd, where he s joshing with them and playing off them. he does it in a way that certainly ron desantis can t. he s like a circus master putting on a show. the rallies we ve been there, there is a show entertainment value to them, which is partly why people go along. desantis is going to struggle always to match the humor element. matt, your piece for the daily beast that is entitled win or lose, chris christie is running the best campaign against trump, in it, you write in part, quote, while donald trump is clearly the prohibitive front-runner for the republican nomination, there is no denying that christie is the most interesting of the growing republican field of candidates who are clamoring for the coveted spot. i don t want to go out on a brittle limb here. christie is polling at under 3%. still, i wouldn t be surprised if christie s trajectory is still on the rise. there are a couple of reasons for th
question and one question only, trump or not trump. christie is the only republican opponent who has the correct interpretation of what the primary is about. and that s a huge advantage. this also brings you us to the second reason christie has a chance to gain traction. he s the only non-trump candidate who is not only tough but also funny and entertaining. perhaps it s a commentary on our culture, but this is a vitally important thing. in fact, i would say that trump s entertainment value is a wildly underrated political attribute. it might not be enough to sway republican primary voters, but that s on their collective conscience. christie can t control how voters will respond to his message. what he can control is how he delivers it. on that count, he is hitting it out of the park. i mean, that kind of gets, matt, to what i was talking about, the entertainment factor. here s a compilation of christie s greatest hits against trump so far in this campaign. one trump started hitting
attack donald trump and do it in a good way, you get media attention, and poll numbers could go up a bit. maybe this is a formula others use, but a couple republicans i talked to in recent days watching christie, you know, have a little mini moment here, note he s also taken a lot of swipes at governor desantis. trump is number one, but he s attacked ron desantis a bunch, too. especially if desantis sorry if trump sits out the first couple of debates, which he has threatened to do, and christie is the attack dog who knows he needs points to stay in this thing and desantis is his primary focus, someone suggested to me, we know what christie did to marco rubio a couple cycles back. he could do the same to desantis, another florida man. well, not only can he do to desantis what he did to rubio, he will do it. that s just the way he does what he does. i agree with matt s point.