NatAttack50932 t1_iueosud wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:30 PM

It is absolutely wild to think that if Bridgegate, David Wildstein and the beach fiasco did not happen that Christie could have legitimately been the 2016 Presidential nominee.

stellaluna29 t1_iufo7x3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:32 PM

Lol that’s not what stopped christie from being the nominee. The arrival of trump and the subsequent fervent embracing his open bigotry was what stopped christie from being the nominee.

-MACHO-MAN- t1_iuh7wv2 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:17 AM

yup. People massively underestimated this, how sick people were of the clintons, and other things.

NatAttack50932 t1_iufrduj wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:57 PM

No it was bridgegate

Christie and his entire team were pretty much ostracized from the gop for handing NJ back to dems

Cautious-Syrup-3881 t1_iug8byk wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:09 AM

Honestly, Christie thought he was lot more popular than he really was. I remember someone bringing him up on CD for a lot of nonNJers to say "who?" and the rest knowing him for being obese.