Daily News | Chris Christie is announcing his second presidential bid tonight in New Hampshire
. Christie’s expected offensive could prompt other candidates to also criticize the former president.“Clearly he has a passion to destroy Trump,” said Dave Carney, a longtime GOP campaign consultant in New Hampshire. “It’ll be interesting to see if he’s just doing this to be in the limelight, to bash Trump, or if he actually has something to say. And is he gonna run a real campaign?”
Christie enters the race during a busy week. Former Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota are set to announce their presidential campaigns this week, increasing the number of GOP candidates to nearly a dozen. In New Hampshire,A late May poll of declared and potential GOP candidates showed Christie polling at 0% nationally with the most unpopular approval rating of any candidate. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came the closest to Trump with 30% of national GOP support.
Besides Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and Sununu registered at less than 1%, if at all.can gauge a candidate’s overall electability but are highly unreliable to predict primary contests. Still, at the moment, DeSantis appears to be Trump’s most competitive challenger. A key question in coming months will be if any other candidate can break through as they blanket early voting states Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire.
“Obviously, Trump is the front-runner. He has supporters and people in the state and a firm 30-35% at this point,” Carney said. “But it’s still wide open.”
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