Column: Is Trump inevitable? Some in the GOP are starting to wonder. It’s still quite early, but the parade of sycophants to Mar-a-Lago worries Chris Christie and others who’ve rejected the ex-president, writes jmart.
from upstate New York, is all but begging Republican primary voters not to saddle him with Trump, using all the right code words.
He did, though, allow that most Republicans are in seats where they’re “more worried about their primary than the general election.” And he noted that lawmakers like him, running in districts Biden carried, will be “the difference between us having the majority or not.” Christie rejects the idea that there’s only two options, nominate Trump or see the nominee undermined by Trump, arguing that if the former president loses “he’ll be a diminished figure” and “a two-time loser” rather than a MAGA kingpin.
Like a lot of prominent Republicans, Christie has no relationship with DeSantis and harbors evident skepticism about somebody who has led a “very sheltered existence down there in Florida,” as the former governor put it.
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