The reason why I believe this is because Christie is surging in New Hampshire and he’s the only one that’s actually attacking Trump. If DeSantis had been attacking Trump the way Christie has on policy issues such as Healthcare and his failures as president, he wouldn’t be doing as badly as he is now.
That’s the sad reality that the race will be between two RINOs.
Ultimately I think Trump will win the nomination unless he’s forced out of the race in May due to legal issues in which case I think Chris Christie will easily win the nomination at a contested convention since he’s an establishment favorite and he’ll most likely be the runner up at that point in terms of both delegates and the popular vote.
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Trump started attacking right after DeSantis won for a good reason. He's a bitter impotent little man who needs constant validation. By not attacking him DeSantis fed into this narcissistic trait of Trumps, thereby allowing Trump to portray himself as STILL the leader of the Republican Party and encouraging hardcore staunch Republican MAGA supporters to NEVER RETREAT AND NEVER SURRENDER on the 2020 election being stolen even after a failed governmental coup AND arguably the most disappointing and underwhelming congressional election midterm results in history. Anyone with a brain, anyone rational, would have taken a hint and go full throttle on Trump, they would have started naming all the names of every single MAGA endorsed candidates that went down in defeat (there were MANY). But no he didn't do that.
Instead he stood to the side, tried to be "the better man" while Trump did everything to him except have sex with his wife. So no I don't buy the BULLSH*T argument that Trump is unstoppable, unbeatable, and undeniable for the GOP nomination. The man LIED TO HIS LAWYER, the evidence doesn't look good, and chances are we might be STILL talking about this trial THIS TIME NEXT YEAR with the way things are going (or he'll die). He's a UNIQUELY VULNERABLE SPOT HE REALLY HASN'T BEEN BEFORE, especially on the dawn of a presidential election.
In addition to all of that, there really is no candidate better suited at the moment to take Trump down as Chris Christie. Yeah the guy is a corrupt politician but he has a knack for laying the ungodly smackdown on other Republicans who play politics. He also has a much more casual style of debunking MAGA sorts than others:
