How would a Trump/Christie ticket have fared?

[Rat]

Governor Chris Christie was on the shortlist to be the VP nominee, and was arguably Trump's preferred choice if you believe the stories that he had offered the role to Christie several times and had second thoughts about choosing Pence over him prior to the official announcement. If Trump had ended up choosing Christie over Pence, how would the ticket have fared against Clinton in the general election?

Would there have been any substantial impact on a Trump administration in the early days if they could pull off a win? For one, Christie had been in charge of the transition originally, then was replaced by Pence who basically scrapped what Christie had prepared. It is very possible that the early cabinet nominees and early agenda goals could've taken a different approach.

[pikachu]

Trump’s odds of losing would’ve been higher if he chose Christie. It didn’t get much play nationally because of, well, everything but the Bridgegate trials were happening in fall of 2016 and there would’ve been a continuous drip-drip-drip of negative coverage coming out of that culminating in two of Christie’s aides being convicted in the Friday before the election. Ofc, it’s hard to predict how the dynamics of the trial change with Christie’s increased profile.

[Agonized-Statism]

Pence was the best choice. Trump needed a generic religious right conservative heartland Republican on his ticket. Christie was a little too loud, socially moderate, and Northeastern, making the Midwest less secure.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

It would have played more poorly with evangelicals and he might have lost North Carolina.