7 posts tagged ‘Chris Christie’
The Elusive Promise of a Real 2024 Republican Race Against Donald Trump
The New Yorker,
On the Nikki Haley scenario and the eternal optimism of a New Year.
CNN Asked the GOP Candidates the Dumbest Abortion Questions Possible
Jezebel,
It was just two psychos onstage at the fifth GOP presidential debate on Wednesday night in Des Moines, Iowa. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley duked it out during the last debate before voting begins on Monday, January 15, with the Iowa caucuses and they are definitely still feuding. Read more...
Nikki Haley Sucks and Is Also Inadvertently Hilarious
Nikki Haley is such a uniquely, nauseatingly awful politician because she insists on play-acting as the reasonable adult in the room. In reality, she’s said she would ban abortion if she could, she wants to defund schools that teach whatever she deems to be “critical race theory,” and, as of Thursday night, she… Read more...
Republicans Are Having a Very Level-Headed Reaction to Trump Being Removed From Colorado Ballot
On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a very reasonable ruling that former President Trump should not be allowed on the state’s 2024 ballot, because he “engaged in an insurrection” in the days leading up to and during January 6, 2021. Very fair! The 14th Amendment explicitly bars that sort of thing. But in the… Read more...
Chris Christie shuts down MAGA Newsmax host: "The truth is coming, baby"
Boing Boing,
Think what you will about former Trump-sycophant Chris Christie, but as the only Republican candidate who consistently hammers Donald Trump and MAGA propaganda, he sure is fun to have around. Especially since, as a former federal prosecutor (and Republican bully himself), he knows how to clobber hard, as he did yesterday when he punched the stuffing out of far-right Newsmax host Eric Bolling. — Read the rest
Ron DeSantis is close to rock bottom in new poll — even lower than Chris Christie
Even heel lifts can't help presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has plummeted so low in New Hampshire, he's even below Chris Christie in the most recent Emerson College poll. Meanwhile, Nikki Haley has surged to second spot. "He came to the scene as someone who was supposed to be all the things you love about Donald Trump, but better packaging. — Read the rest
If Nikki Haley Was Really 'Honest With the American People,' She'd Say Abortion Wins
The third GOP presidential debate was on Wednesday night in Miami, just one day after elections yielded pro-choice victories in multiple swing states. Ohio became the first Republican state to codify abortion rights since the fall of Roe v. Wade while Virginia flipped a chamber in an embarrassing defeat to their… Read more...