He accused Trump and his family of “grift” and described Trump’s term in office as a failure.Ĭhristie is widely unpopular with voters in both parties, and they may scoff at his shift from Trump apologist to scourge. Trump is a “lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog” who “never admits a fault, and who always finds someone else and something else to blame for whatever goes wrong, but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right,” he said at his announcement in New Hampshire. Christie, by contrast, is more comfortable with the concept of campaigning as payback and has built almost his entire pitch around the premise that if he gets on the debate stage with Trump - no sure thing given the qualifying rules - he can deliver a knockout blow. Whether Pence truly means “never” is unclear - he later suggested he might support Trump if he became the nominee. And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.” “Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.
Now voters will be faced with the same choice,” he said. demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. “It might be fair to ask why I’m challenging my former running mate,” he told the crowd. Roosevelt a third term in 1940 - Wednesday’s announcement rally in Iowa marked a shift in course. Trump, already ill, hid his symptoms during debate prep Christie spent seven days in intensive care before recovering.įor Pence - the first vice president to challenge the president he served since John Nance Gar ner sought to deny Franklin D. 6, 2021, by the Trump-inspired mob that howled for his hanging Christie by COVID-19, which he contracted in 2020 after extensive prep sessions for the first debate between Trump and Biden. The two share the experience of being nearly killed by Trump’s recklessness - Pence on Jan. “Nothing has worked.”īut after months in which the candidates mostly appeared to tiptoe around Trump, the attacks have sharpened, most notably with two new entrants - former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. “If your message to voters who support Trump is he cannot win, you are going to hit a brick wall,” wrote Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.įinding a message that works against Trump has eluded his Republican opponents since 2015, Masket noted. Seventy-one percent said it was more important to nominate the candidate who best represents their opinions than one with the best chance of beating President Biden.Īnd a recent Monmouth University poll found that almost two-thirds of Republicans said Trump was definitely (45%) or probably (18%) the party’s strongest candidate against Biden. The poll found 86% believed the investigations of the former president were more about politics and political revenge than about justice and the law.
In California, which will send the largest delegation to next year’s Republican nominating convention, three-quarters of likely Republican primary voters had a favorable view of Trump, according to our most recent Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, which was taken in late May. Hutchinson’s support is barely a blip, however. Trump “is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation and he should step aside,” Hutchinson wrote on Twitter. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, had called for Trump to quit the race. Longer-term, no one knows whether a significant number of Republican voters will view the charges as disqualifying or whether they will brush them aside as they have with previous accusations.Įven before the indictment, one candidate, former Gov. At least for a while, the news of the charges will blot out any attention that Trump’s challengers might receive. “THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” Intensifying the attacks “HOW CAN DOJ CHARGE ME WHO DID NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENT’S WERE CHARGED, WHEN JOE BIDEN WON’T BE CHARGED FOR ANYTHING,” he wrote in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, after his lawyers met with prosecutors early in the week. Trump has used previous legal woes as a way to cement the loyalties of Republican voters, and he followed that pattern this week. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
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