The two newly announced candidates for the Republican nomination are in a bind: how to pitch Trumpism without Trump when you were a devoted courtier to him
is likely to capture the party’s presidential nomination. But that has not deterred others from hoping against hope and entering the contest. Chris Christie, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, was planning to announce his candidacy from New Hampshire on Tuesday June 6th; and after filing the necessary paperwork on June 5th, Mike Pence, a former vice-president, is set to announce his bid in Iowa on Wednesday.
The two men will confront the same problem differently. Mr Pence is a polite, midwestern evangelical Christian who loyally served as deputy to the brash boss. Throughout almost every scandal of the Trump administration, he remained remarkably supine. But in the aftermath of the election of 2020, Mr Pence’s spine stiffened even as most elected Republicans were seen to be made of spongier stuff.
It was the beginning of the end of a beautiful friendship. Like many Republicans who served under Mr Trump, Mr Christie experienced public pangs of conscience after January 6th, blaming the president’s nonstop talk about stolen elections as the ultimate cause of the violence. But unlike the ever-polite Mr Pence, Mr Christie will probably seek to escape his awkward past by going on the attack.
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